So tonight it started snowing pretty heavily and I had to go and pick Mark up from work. I have never driven in snow before so I knew it would be quite an experience. It wasn't too bad, except for on one turn where the car lost some traction. I had no clue what was going on and thought something happened to the car, but luckily the car had this thing that popped up to tell me that it had low traction. I guess I have to be happy that that was the worst thing to happen. I am sure I will have the opportunity to perfect my driving in the next couple of weeks.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Our Move to Boston...
Well, Mark and I "officially" live in Massachusetts now. Last week Mark and I began the moving process. When we scheduled the movers, the company told us that they would need two days to pack up our two bedroom apartment. This surprised Mark and I a little, but we agreed to it. Three men came and they moved very quick! They were done by 2 o'clock on Wednesday and only had a couple things left to pack that we needed for the next day. They were back early the next morning and were done by 10 am. Mark and I ran a couple of last minute errands and then ate lunch from Nico's (we are going to miss good Mexican food so much!) We were finally ready to hit the road, but just needed to do our apartment walk through. We went to the office and no one was there...we eventually waited two hours for them to come back from "lunch." Everything went well with the walk through and then we headed to Phoenix. The drive was extremely windy!
Here was our view one point on our drive to Phoenix
We drove to the Williams and spent a fun night with Mark's whole family. We even had a tornado warning... luckily the Williams have a basement. After dinner we headed over to my parents house to sleep.
The next morning we got up and went to lunch at Chinos with my mom, dad, sister and Mr. and Mrs. Shipman. I am going to miss eating there too! Hopefully Mark and I will find food just as good here in Boston.
After lunch we headed to the airport. My parents and Gregg and Marina went with us. It was really hard to say goodbye! :( However, I did a lot better than I expected. I only really cried when we said goodbye, I expected to be bawling on the plane. Brodie did well with the plane ride. He whined a little when everyone got on the plane, but calmed down after the plane took off. We also sat next to someone who had a cat under their seat. I was worried about how he would react, but I don't think he even realized that she was there.
Here was Brodie's seat on the plane
Life in Boston has not been as bad as I anticipated...I know BIG surprise! It has not been as cold as I expected. Although I have heard that it is going to be extremely cold this weekend, so my opinion of the weather may change after this weekend! I just looked outside and it is snowing again, the ground is completely covered. Almost all the snow had melted on Monday, but now its back... One of Mark's co-workers, John, arrived on Saturday night and is staying at the same hotel as us. We have gone out to dinner with him a couple of times, which has helped us to not feel so lonely here. I have had a couple of interviews with some families for nanny positions and am waiting to hear back if I got the job. So, overall I don't hate it here...I am not loving it here, but I am content.
Oh and Brodie is adjusting very well to the cold. He didn't know what to think about the snow at first, but after one night he adjusted. On Monday when the snow started to melt, he would search all over for a little patch of snow so he could go to the bathroom on it! We took him out tonight and he LOVES the fresh snow. He runs around in it, kicking up the snow and chasing it around and loves chasing the big snowflakes.
Brodie's first snow experience
Here was our view one point on our drive to Phoenix
We drove to the Williams and spent a fun night with Mark's whole family. We even had a tornado warning... luckily the Williams have a basement. After dinner we headed over to my parents house to sleep.
The next morning we got up and went to lunch at Chinos with my mom, dad, sister and Mr. and Mrs. Shipman. I am going to miss eating there too! Hopefully Mark and I will find food just as good here in Boston.
After lunch we headed to the airport. My parents and Gregg and Marina went with us. It was really hard to say goodbye! :( However, I did a lot better than I expected. I only really cried when we said goodbye, I expected to be bawling on the plane. Brodie did well with the plane ride. He whined a little when everyone got on the plane, but calmed down after the plane took off. We also sat next to someone who had a cat under their seat. I was worried about how he would react, but I don't think he even realized that she was there.
Here was Brodie's seat on the plane
Life in Boston has not been as bad as I anticipated...I know BIG surprise! It has not been as cold as I expected. Although I have heard that it is going to be extremely cold this weekend, so my opinion of the weather may change after this weekend! I just looked outside and it is snowing again, the ground is completely covered. Almost all the snow had melted on Monday, but now its back... One of Mark's co-workers, John, arrived on Saturday night and is staying at the same hotel as us. We have gone out to dinner with him a couple of times, which has helped us to not feel so lonely here. I have had a couple of interviews with some families for nanny positions and am waiting to hear back if I got the job. So, overall I don't hate it here...I am not loving it here, but I am content.
Oh and Brodie is adjusting very well to the cold. He didn't know what to think about the snow at first, but after one night he adjusted. On Monday when the snow started to melt, he would search all over for a little patch of snow so he could go to the bathroom on it! We took him out tonight and he LOVES the fresh snow. He runs around in it, kicking up the snow and chasing it around and loves chasing the big snowflakes.
Brodie's first snow experience
Monday, January 18, 2010
House Hunting Trip
On January 8th, Mark and I flew out to Boston to look at places to live. I had done some research online prior to see what the prices looked like and it is WAY more expensive. Currently we live in a two bedroom/two bath apartment, but it looked like we were going to have to pay double what we pay now just for a one bedroom! We met with the Realtor on Saturday morning and we looked at quite a variety of places. We looked primarily at apartments, but we did get to see one house that was built in the late 1800's. It was a two story house that had been converted into a town house with one residence on the ground level and the other on the second story. It was quite interesting...it consisted of 5 rooms that were like bedrooms. The kitchen was in one room and then you could do whatever you wanted with the others. It even had one room with a closet that was about 6 inches deep...not sure what you could hang in there.
After looking at a couple different places, we came to this apartment complex called Stonegate. I had seen it online prior to going out to Boston and I have to admit I had already kind of fell in love with the place. They showed us a one bedroom with a loft and a two bedroom apartment. We really like the one bedroom with a loft and it didn't seem to be out of our price range. We didn't want to do anything right away since it was one of the first ones that we looked at, but the apartment manager told us that it was the only one they had available and she had some people coming in the afternoon to look at it. We looked at some more places, but kept comparing them to Stonegate. So after a quick trip to the grocery store to pick up a cashiers check (we both forgot our checkbooks) we headed back and put a deposit down on the apartment. So know we have a place to live! And it has room for our guestroom furniture, so we hope you will come visit us in Boston!
Here is a link to the apartments website.
Here is the floorplan of our apartment.
And here are some pictures that I took of the exterior of the complex.
This is the clubhouse...and yes that white stuff is snow! (I am going to freeze!)
After looking at a couple different places, we came to this apartment complex called Stonegate. I had seen it online prior to going out to Boston and I have to admit I had already kind of fell in love with the place. They showed us a one bedroom with a loft and a two bedroom apartment. We really like the one bedroom with a loft and it didn't seem to be out of our price range. We didn't want to do anything right away since it was one of the first ones that we looked at, but the apartment manager told us that it was the only one they had available and she had some people coming in the afternoon to look at it. We looked at some more places, but kept comparing them to Stonegate. So after a quick trip to the grocery store to pick up a cashiers check (we both forgot our checkbooks) we headed back and put a deposit down on the apartment. So know we have a place to live! And it has room for our guestroom furniture, so we hope you will come visit us in Boston!
Here is a link to the apartments website.
Here is the floorplan of our apartment.
And here are some pictures that I took of the exterior of the complex.
This is the clubhouse...and yes that white stuff is snow! (I am going to freeze!)
Christmas 2009
Mark and I had a wonderful Christmas break. Mark had December 24th through January 4th off, so we headed up to Phoenix to spend time with our families. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with the Williams. On Christmas Eve we went to mass at St. Joan of Arc in Phoenix and then went ate Christmas Eve dinner at Mark's Granma's house. It was quite delicious! The next morning Mark's sister, Tatjana and her family came over to the Williams and we opened gifts. It was very fun watching our nephew, Cameron, open all his gifts and then "help" everyone else open their gifts. Here are some pictures from our Christmas with the Williams.
After opening gifts and a delicious breakfast we headed over to the Browns to celebrate Christmas with them. We opened gifts and then lounged around while my dad cooked Christmas dinner. After dinner, my sister, Liz, Mark and I met up with our friend Zach (one of the best men in our wedding) and his brother and went and saw "Invictus." It was a good movie, but Mark and I were so tired that we both fell asleep. The next morning we drove to Tucson to celebrate Christmas with my aunt and uncle and cousins. We had a delicious meal followed by cake to celebrate my cousin, Marc's girlfriend Laura's 21st birthday. After watching some football and playing some pool we headed out to the bars at midnight with Laura. Here are some pictures of our Christmas with the Lee's.
Even Brodie got into the Christmas Spirit!
Mark and I celebrated the New Year by going over to our friend Jordan's house. It is so odd to think that a whole decade has passed since Y2K! On January 1st we all gathered at the Williams to watch the Rose Bowl. It was a sad loss for Oregon!
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