Mapped Our Trip!

We just mapped our trip!

Almost 12 hours on the first day!

Almost 7 hours on the second day!

*SO* much driving, but we are READY! 

We will be traveling through two different time zones

(think Twilight Zone)

and should hopefully arrive in Nebraska before 5pm on July 12th!

We have already switched the utilities into our name at our new apartment.

Except for electricity, though, which you have to do in person.

We were assured, however, that we will have electric when we arrive,

which is great, because we'll be using our air mattress, ha!

We are extremely excited to be starting our new adventure on Monday!

Monday, Monday, MONDAY! 

Woo-Hoo!

MON-DAY!

:]

Our sister, Kaitlyn, showed us how to text status updates to facebook,

so we will be updating Nina's status (so check us out) often

during our two day drive.

Our hotel that we're staying at in Wyoming also offers free Wi-Fi,

so we hope to update the blog during our journey as well!

We are excited!

Did we mention Monday?

Until Next Time

July 3rd

Today is July 3rd!

We leave on July 11th!

8 More Days until we LEAVE for NEBRASKA!

We are so very, very excited!

Our plan is to drive from here in the "High Desert" (ie: Southern California)

 to Green River, Wyoming in one day

 (approx. 12 hours (including a one hour time change)), 

spend the night,

and then travel from Green River, Wyoming to North Platte, Nebraska.

(approx. 7.5 hours (with another one hour time change)).

It's A LOT of driving.

 We have decided to not go through Colorado on our journey

(thanks, Dad, for the help!) because it is mountainous 

and we will have two big luggage's and one big duffel bag on the top 

of our car.

In other news, tomorrow (July 4) marks the last leg

of our journey through the couches here in California!

We leave our Uncle Shane & Aunt Dee's house

and go to Brian's parents house for our last little bit.

Another huge THANK YOU to those who have allowed us to stay with them!

THANK YOU to:

Jen & Jeff

Dad & Jen

Shane & Dee

Mom & Dad Fleming

Your generosity, thoughtfulness, love, and support has really helped us

and we are so thankful for everything you have done.

You are amazing - and we're so blessed to call you family.

Thank you - also - to all of our family who have shown us

nothing but love and support throughout our adventure thus far.

Sorry for the sappy-ness - but - we're so thankful...

and we're starting to realize that six months is a long time

to go without seeing our loving and supportive family.

WE LOVE YOU!

Alright - strange post, we know - but - the update is now complete.

Oh, and we can't leave this post without our sign off... hehe.

...Until Next Time...

Errands & Well... Photobooth

Today was filled with a ton of errands.

A ton.

Well... okay, we did not do 2,000 errands (haha, ton reference)

but still - felt like a lot.

However, most were successful, which is always fabulous.

After our errands and grabbing a quick bite for lunch, we spent the afternoon

hanging with our Aunt & Uncle - and - of course -

watching an "awesome" bagpipe movie... very fun... for Shane. ;]

The Photobooth portion of this post is brought to you

by our new found love for... well... photobooth on the Mac. :]

We shall share :

Awesome? We think so too.

Until Next Time

[By the way - we'll be IN Nebraska in 11 days! Awesome!]

50th Post... Kinda

How Exciting.... it's our 50th Post!!!

(well, according to our dashboard it is - so - we'll run with it.)

What do we have to report, you may ask? Well... we are currently only 11 days from leaving

          California!! Can you (yes, you) believe it?! We are extremely excited!!! 

In only TWELVE days we will be *IN* Nebraska! 

Twelve Days.

12. Days.Yes, we're very enthused about this. 

In other news - this post is coming to you from a Mac laptop computer. Our Dad cleared it off as it is our Jen's old one, and we must say... love. So many cool features! And, of course, as luck may have it, our main PC laptop REFUSED to turn on and therefore, sadly, passed away on Monday, June 27th. 

Luckily, our Uncle Shane is an IT guy and did all of this Dr. Frankenstein stuff to it - pretty amazing. So now we have 2 PCs and a Mac, but Brian gets a Mac with his new job, so, really, we'll have a 2 PCs & 2 Macs (we know, it's strange that we'll have more computers than we are people) but then, we suppose, that we'll have the opportunity to pick - or something. 

In other news, since Saturday afternoon we have been at our Aunt & Uncle's house. We will be here until the afternoon of the 4th of July! We are very thankful to our family (all of you) for hosting us! We love you!Anyway - that's it for now - except for the12 days thing, everything is all gravy (well, except for us because of Atkins - it's cool) 
Until Next Time

Disneyland & 19 Days

Yesterday, June 22, we went to Disneyland with our family!

The men

The ladies

Love, Love, Love

The family on Small World (Brian is a little cut off, though)

All 7 of us at Ariel's Grotto!

We had an AMAZING time - so many memories created - we love them.

Today also marks

19 Days until we are *IN* Nebraska!

Excited? Yes We Are!!!!

Until Next Time

Nebraska in 21 Days!

We will be IN Nebraska, IN our new apartment in exactly 21 days!

We are so excited!

Today has been a great day, too.

We watched the Roommate with our Jen, which she says is just like Single White Female (so we're definitely going to be checking that out as well.)

We love relaxing with our family!

:] 

Until Next Time

Mosquitoes, Anyone?

This blog is for all of you blog readers who do not live in a state, county, or city which has mosquitoes (of course, if you do live somewhere which has mosquitoes, you can also read this posting, but you may just laugh at our first experience with whole-town mosquito spraying).

This is a squashed mosquito.  It flew by as I was writing this posting (got to use a little imagination here).

I'm assuming you read through the parenthesis above even if you don't live with mosquitoes, (you Curious George, you), so you already know I'm going to be talking about the fact that North Platte is currently spraying for mosquitoes.  Yes, North Platte, the city, not individual residents (though they may be as well, I haven't asked yet) is spraying nightly to get rid of their pesky, potentially West-Nile carrying mosquitoes.  Apparently, because the North Platte river is flooded, there is more of a breeding ground for mosquitoes.  There is a spraying map and everything.  Here, take a look: http://www.ci.north-platte.ne.us/files/misc_info/mosquito_spray_map.pdf

Well, that's it for now.  Short, simple, and to the point.  

Mosquitoes...lots of them... 

that's bad. 

Killing mosquitoes with city-wide spray... 

that's good.