Happiness and Mold

I didn't think we would ever see our 7th piece of luggage. We received 3 pieces from Georgia, and another 3 from Vienna. The last piece was lost. The airlines didn't know where it was, the embassy couldn't track it. The airline told me they thought it may have ended up in London, but they couldn't be sure. I sadly started the inventory list of items the bag contained: new kids clothes and a birthday present for Van. Unexpectedly, the bag showed up at the embassy with no explanation! I was ecstatic! It has been 2 weeks without any of the kids' new clothes. They have been dressing in borrowed things, and items I pulled from a box of things they wore last summer. When Jared arrived home with the bag, I eagerly opened it. My enthusiasm quickly waned... for I was met with damp, moldy clothes. I sadly removed the tags and stickers from the nice, new, moldy clothes and threw them in the laundry. It cant ever be easy, can it?

You can see the water line on the bottom left pair of jeans! The mold on the Khaki's isn't very visible in the picture. It was like a dusting of white spores in the creases of the pockets.

Paint and Polish

Yesterday Ava and I had a fun day. I was sitting in the kitchen and she said "Come on Mom, I have a special surprise!" I asked her where we were going. She said, "Mom, we're going to the Halls of Montezuma to paint your finger nails!" Imagine my surprise! So she painted my fingernails and toe nails, and then painted her own!



Mine looked much the same!

Curtains

The curtains in the dining room are actually a really pretty burnt orangey brown color, and in the preceding pictures they looked yellow. This is the color of the curtains, although with light coming through the windows they tend to look a bit more burnt orange. Anyone who knows me at all knows that burnt orange is my favorite color, so I was very very excited about these curtains, which is why I felt the need to set the record straight...

2 rooms down, 7 to go...

We are slowly getting settled into our new home. I have all the boxes unpacked, now for the organizing! Here are some pictures of our Dining room and Kitchen, the only 2 rooms in the house clean enough to make their debut on film (or digital sensor, as the case may be)

All the rooms have this amazing light fixtures with crown molding around them.

This is our Kitchen. The floor is tile and we have a regular refrigerator/freezer and a deep freezer as well. The steel box on the far right hand side is the water distiller which we get all of our drinking water from.
Here is a view of the fancy lighting on the kitchen!

Amazing Cake!!!

My friend, Norelle, brought this AMAZING cake for Van to take to school for his Birthday!! The shark is the actual cake, it has frosting teeth and eatable dorsal fins! It was amazing! When we walked into school all the kids were really excited.