And its back to work....

The vacation is over and its time to check in. Todd got up this morning, put on his Alphas and headed out to check into his new duty station. I had to take a picture because honestly, how handsome can you get?

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas! It was hard to keep Todd's hands off the gifts til Christmas morning (if you left the room for a moment he would start shaking things) but he made it and we had a great time opening gifts! We didn't get a white christmas but the sun came out for the first time this week and it was a beautiful day! Thank you so much to our families, we can't believe how spoiled we are! We missed you all so much today!

We made a bit of a mess

hmm, what should I bake?

lookin' good honey

Showing off my new jacket

My Ironman: now he can train indoors when it snows

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

One of the things that I was most worried about was that we would be moving over Christmas. With it being our first Christmas as a married couple and Todd's first Christmas home in 2 years, we really wanted to make it special. Todd promised that wherever we were on Christmas that we would have a tree and celebrate properly and he made sure that it happened. We even packed all our ornaments in our car just in case. It could not have worked out more perfectly, we were able to unpack our whole house and then run out to start decorating for the holidays, you could not even tell that we'd been here less than a week.

Merry Christmas!

Our tree

Our stockings

Our wreath, not sure why this was such a priority but it went up even before our furniture came. You can see the boxes in the background.

Moving Day!

We can't believe how easy everything has been! Todd's Camero (after a little searching and begging) showed up untouched and all our furniture came just 2 days after we got here! The driver was in a hurry to get home to his family for Christmas so he came early! We could not be happier to have our things! The movers came at 7:30am this morning and were done by 9. We spent the rest of the day unpacking and wow are we tired! How did we accumulate so much stuff??

Our new home!

The man in charge

Our dining room

Our living room

We are here!

We are in Rhode Island...and its snowing! We were so anxious to get here so we decided to drive straight from Philly. I had no idea how close it was. It only took 4 hours and about 4 states to get here, super easy. We decided to meet up with our friends, JP and Jennifer in Providence to do a little last minute Christmas shopping and have dinner before heading to our new home, Newport. JP and Jennifer have an adorable house just down the street from where we will be living in Newport and were so kind to let us spend the night.

Rhode Island State Capital

Providence

Welcome to the city of brotherly love

We are in Philly!

Outside Independence Hall

Where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed...pretty cool!

Liberty Bell

Embarrassing roadtrip experience #1: After taking in the sights we were ready for dinner. We asked the receptionist at our hotel for a recommendation and she said we absolutely had to go to this italian place across the street. So we walked over there and walked into an incredibly fancy restaurant ...sweatshirts, tennis shoes and all. All the men had on tuxes, all the woman had on sequins and Todd and I had on beanies and faded jeans. Having too much pride to turn around and half expecting to be turned away...they sat us...in a very dark corner. The food was delicious but it was by far the most expensive meal we have ever had in sneakers.

We are in D.C.

We did more of a drive by of D.C. really. My dear dear friend, Nix and her lovely husband, Jason live here, and we were too busy hanging out with them to see anything. We stayed with them for the night and then in the morning we drove around the city. There was just too much to see so we figured we would come back and tour the city properly.