Last Days in ATL

Playing catch-up: here were our last days in beautiful Atlanta:

Dinner with the Smiths on our last night at The Iberian Pig in Decatur (you guys are awesome & we miss you already- a lot):

Our goodbye party at the Haymore's: Me with two of my favorite ladies, Jennifer & Britt:

Sawyer and Hunter in their room one more time, before the mover's started:




Packing up the living room:


Eating pizza in the empty apartment at dinner time:

Goodbye, Wildwod Ridge Apartments! You were my favorite place to live, ever. Lots of tears leaving this place:

We're Here!

Check out the new place:

Check out the pretty sunrays & the casino (and endless RVs)...

This was our empty flight from Phoenix to Reno. I guess no one comes here.

The flight leaving Atlanta:

Yesterday was a completely insane, frazzled day, but things are going to be ok. It was a huge culture shock (good thing we didn't go to China or something): everything has slot machines, there are Casinos everywhere (even multiple in our tiny town), and even the commercials for supermarkets are all about slots/gambling perks. There are lots of cowboys driving trucks. Lots of RVs. Lots of cows and horses. Thank goodness we found a hotel with a color TV & internet access! :)

ARRRRRGH! (Happy Halloween!)

We were a family of pirates this year, and had a lot of fun with it! Sawyer & Hunter loved having matching costumes! Tip: this is also an extremely CHEAP costume idea ($14 for all of us! $2 striped fabric from Walmart to make pants, leftover fabric scraps to make vests/sashes, wearing our own white shirts, three pirate accessory kits from Dollar Tree [$1 ea], plastic beads spraypainted gold to make necklaces & use as hair beads, and $6 pirate boot toppers for Joe)

We had a fun time carving pumpkins this year! Sawyer did his own carving for the first time & was so proud! Hunter chose his design from images on the computer, and then I carved it for him. Joe had fun making a multi-faced pumpkin, and I loved trying my hand at a new shape: the witch on her broom!