Well, we've moved in and are settling down with each day that passes.  The move was not too bad since we broke it up into three days.  Ezra threw us a curve ball the day we were supposed to leave when he woke up with a horrible, horrible chest cough.  Instead of going to his usual doc, who always told us not to worry about his congestion, we went to the Pediatrics clinic at the U of U.  After hooking him up to an oxygen monitoring machine, they told us that he had Brochiolitis.  That didn't sound too great, since they said there was a high chance they'd need to admit him into the hospital for a few days. Luckily, when we brought him back the next morning, they said that his oxygen levels were back up and that he was probably out of the danger zone.  He's still got that awful, mucous-y cough, but we're hoping he'll start sounding better soon.

Back to the move...
We landed in Farmington, NM the first night, and left at a decent time the next morning so we could make it to Albequerque to sightsee a bit.  Although the drive wasn't too exciting, I still loved experiencing the Southwest views.  Old Town Albequerque was pretty....ummm....cute.  I think it was a bit touristy but the church there was awesome as was the pottery and jewelry.  Siena was too afraid to dance to the music of the mariachi band in the square, but Qiana and Abuelo took right to the dance floor.  We left New Mexico and rushed into Amarillo that night.  There was a horrible storm on our drive, but I guess I had better get used to that.  Sunday we made that last leg of the journey until we reached our temporary home in Rockwall, TX.  It was an extremely humid day, and coupled with the heat, I thought we were going to die.  Thank heavens for air conditioning!  The house is already furnished, as I have mentioned before, so we just unloaded most of the contents of the truck into the garage for storage.  Speaking of unloading, we were met with three cars full of people to help unload the Penske!  Martha has a neice, Martita, who lives in Howe about an hour and half away from us.  She has a bunch of in-laws living about 15 minutes from our house and they all willingly came to help us.  It was such a blessing!  I wish we could have fed them dinner or something, but we'll have to do that later.  We feel very fortunate to have "automatic friends" here.

Unpacking the things that belong in the house with us has been slow-going as has been the wipe-down of the place.  There are bugs and spider webs everywhere!  I'm pretty sure I'm the only one of the landlord's tenants to have cleaned the place.  It's creepy sleeping under cobwebs, but my motto of the last few years has been "PERSPECTIVE!"  The webs are going today and I can't wait until it's all clean.

Here's the run-down of what we've done so far:

July 1st: move in
July 2nd: Juan started work while I tried to clean.  Took the fam to Rudy's for some bbq.
July 3rd: Juan had work off so we went to the Dallas Museum of Art, the JFK Memorial and to Addison's Kaboomtown for a fireworks show.  The rockets were a little less impressive than we expected, but still fun.
July 4th: We all lazily went swimming at the cabana until noon and around 2 we left for Martita's farm.  It was fun to meet everyone (for the second time...I have a poor memory,) and see the Texan countryside.

Today is July 5th.  Juan is working, my in-laws are out experiencing Dallas, and the kids and I are here getting settled into a bit of a routine--something we desperately NEED.  The internet is now set-up and we're in blog-business.  I'll get pictures of the trip up here... I just have to get back to cleaning right now.

Oh, and I might mention... yes, I miss everyone and everything back home.  It would be a lie to say I was completely happy right now.  I'm dealing with the move as I have in move's past: with naive optimism.