Playing in the park

When we first got here it was so pretty outside that we just had to come out and play. They said its pretty like this most of the year, never really too cold except for a few days in the winter time. Just thought I would share these with you. It's next to the hotel we are staying at so not too far to go to enjoy the outdoors. See mom? I told you we went outside and played. :P

Our new family addition

Our new kitty. With us coming here, the girls were excited to get a new kitty especially after spending 3 weeks playing with about 5 cats at our families houses. So my older sister Lynnette and I went out to spend a girls day one day and thought we would stop and have a look around the local no kill shelter. When we walked in the cat side I saw this huge Maine Coon that I just fell in love with! We had a visit with him and learned he was a huge lush and was getting over a cold. Turns out this guy was found wandering the streets, guess he got out from his family and no one came to claim him or put posters out or anything so after 3 months he was put up for adoption, lucky me! His name is Manzo, anyone know if this means anything? It was the name he had on his collar when he was picked up. Anyway I called and sent pictures to my DH and he said yes. My sister said she would keep him at her house until we can bring him into our home. Good thing he gets along with her cat and her pit-bull mix. The girls and DH came to my sisters to see him and get acquainted. He still has his front claws but doesn't use them at all with the kids or us and loves to have his belly rubbed. So cute! We only had one accident though. He hisses and scratches at the dog if she gets near him when he is getting attention from someone. My sisters boyfriend was watching the girls for us while we ran to Verizon and Kiley was petting Manzo when the pit got near him and in the "fight" Kiley got in the way and had a few scratches on her face and a huge black eye. But she is fine now and all healed up, it took about a week to heal up. 

We went to Cracker Barrel on the way here. My mom swears by their food. So we stopped for lunch on the 9th and had a 45 minute wait so we wandered around their gift shop till we were called. Such cute things they have! Have you seen this years Easter train set? I love it! It reminds me of Peter Rabbit. Destiny got to have a diet root beer in a frosty mug, it sure looked good and her smiles were proof that it was! We played some little peg game on a triangular board till our food came.  Sorry no pics of the food, we were all quite hungry when it arrived. The food was soooo good! Though the coffee sucked big time but that was the only downfall there. I loved everything else. 

Our new house

In pictures 1 and 2 is our backyard, as you can tell lots of work needed but this is what DH loves to do so not a problem. Pictures 3 and 4 are of our front yard, same issue as the backyard. Pictures 5 and 6 are of the front room. Picture 7 is our dining room and picture 8 is our kitchen and then pictures 9 and 10 are the downstairs family room which we actually plan to use as a master bedroom since the one upstairs is a bit small for us. None of this furniture is ours, its all for show when they put it on the market. I would show you more of the house but DH took the photos of the house and OMG I hate them, I should have took the pictures. Well when we start decorating and remodeling the yards I'll be the one to take the pics so there is something decent for you all to see. My mom saw the place this morning and she said we did good and even she loves the place too.  Well I'm off to go try and stitch.

Enjoy!

The Garden of the Gods

Wow I'm so sorry I have been gone these last few weeks. On the 9th of January we came to Fort Carson, Colorado. We talked to housing and got the xtra leave approved so we could find a house to live in and after much discussion we decided on trying to find a house to buy. We looked for about a week and found one that we love and as of yesterday we are officially under contract. We are set to close on the 15th of February if not sooner. I'll show you all pics when my DH returns from signing in since his leave is over with now. But he has the camera so I have to wait. Anyway, we all had gotten bad colds when we got here so we have been going thru and getting over that. I haven't touched one craft thing since we have been here though so nothing pretty to show you. Yesterday though we went to The Garden of the Gods so here are a few pictures of that. Enjoy!