Finally getting settled in : )

So we've been in our permanent home a week tomorrow, and thank goodness things are starting to feel a bit normal again! Brandon is enrolled in Kindergarten and he is really enjoying being around other children his age again. With him missing the first month and a half of school and having speech issues, we were not sure he was ready for Kindergarten, but with a lot of hard work at school and at home, he has made a HUGE improvement just in this last week and a half! As for Tom and I, we are having a bit of a hard time adjusting to the town of Ridgecrest itself. There is not a whole lot to do here during the week, and you better believe we are out of here on the weekends ; ).

Just this last weekend we went to a wine an chocolate festival in Oakhurst, and it was a lot of fun. There was supposed to be a Halloween costume contest, so we decked Brandon out in his caveman costume. He had a real chicken bone necklace and a paper mache' club! I also made faux fur bracelets and shoe covers; it sounds like a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun!! So, I'm glad that I enjoyed putting it together, because they didn't even end up

having the contest : (

This weekend Tom has a three day weekend thanks to the great flex Fridays he has; we might go see Death Valley, which we heard was definitely worth checking out.

There might not be a whole lot going on in good old Ridgecrest, but there is plenty of beauty and wildlife. The sunsets are gorgeous and I have seen plenty of rabbits and roadrunners.

We also got lucky and scored a house that has a beautiful view of the mountains, with a back gate that goes right out to the walking trail and the golf course (convenient for Pa ;)). Which reminds me, even though we ended up with a three bedroom house, we have decent sized rooms so the boys are sharing one of them and the other is a office/guestroom with a bed ready for visitors!