There IS an Arizona!!

SO in case you haven't noticed... we DID end up moving from the great lush green-ness of Tennessee to the ...well...brown brown brown-ness of Arizona. Did i mention everything here is brown?? Even the buildings!! It's crazy. i have gone into color shock. We ended up getting the job after our interview and when they asked us how quickly we could be here we (being the naive beings we are) said 2 weeks. i had already quit my job before even coming here the first time but Gabe continued working up until 2 days before we left. The HUGE truck was packed and little Bonnie secured tightly behind and we set out after church one last time on July 13th.

i had been so busy before and since that i didn't have time to update. We are settled in now, although by no means completely unpacked or totally furnished (we still don't have a bed! haha) so i must apologize for what you are about to see. It is VERY messy but i figured it was high time for everyone to take a tour of the new place (and if you call on Skype we will give you the GRAND VIRTUAL TOUR - very thrilling). Sit back, relax, and envision yourself visiting in one of these rooms very soon! :D

This is... most of our home from the outside in the front yard. The landscape is actually quite beautiful and there is a 2 car garage. The back yard is nice sized as well - plenty of room for our lawn furniture, cooking out, dying in the heat - you name it. And it's all fenced in. There's even like 3 square feet of grass!! It's wonderful.

Here we have the living room and stairs. Vaulted ceilings and high windows.

Hallway stairs with 4 small windows... making streaking up the stairs very risky!! Dining room:

Laundry room and kitchen. We have so much storage space!! i was thrilled... until i had to put contact paper over it all. Then i was tired of all the beautiful cabinets. i'm having trouble with getting all the pictures to come up in the right spots... so i'll have to break them up.