i am writing this in my panties

*josh told me to title this blog as it is. it is true, though*

okay, so our phone line has FINALLY been hooked up, and i have FINALLY found a spot of time in which i can blog! was actually planning on taking a nap, but josh had the tv on and i can't find my earplugs in the mess of our not-yet-unpacked-belongings, so that was the end of that. he also is baking a cake and i find it very hard to sleep when there is something yummy smelling in the air.

so...it has been a very long time. jamie and cherie arrived safe and sound late wednesday night. the next day the two of them dropped me off at work and went to the zoo together. the next day we awoke super early to drive the 3 hours it takes to get to six flags magic mountain ( i always thought that six flags and magic mountain were two different places. i am smarter now). we had a great day there. josh had gone on the website the night before to check out what time it opened, and he noticed that there was some sort of hallelujah jubilee thing going on. but we didn't find out until we got there that a bunch of christian bands were playing that evening, including the newsboys. all 4 of us really like their music, so we were completely stoked. the roller coasters were great, especially goliath. managed to go on that one twice, but all of the other really popular ones had line ups 2-3 hours long, so that was a little disappointing. if you'd like to read a very detailed discription of goliath (including what our faces looked like), go to cherie's blog--the link is in the sidebar. the newsboys were great. during their song about your worries falling "like a million raindrops falling from a blue sky, kissing your cares good bye" all of a sudden, a million pieces of ticker tape started to fall down on us! it was brilliant. i kept a few pieces in my pocket, since i have a tendancy to worry about anything and everything, and this was a really neat visual reminder that God really wants me to STOP doing that!

we didn't get home until 1.30am, partly due to a very necessary stop at in-n-out to show my brother and sister what the fuss was all about. and the next morning we were up early again to pack and move. the entire weekend i felt like i was jet-lagged. come to think of it, i still feel that way. it was wonderful to sleep in our new place saturday night, with the faint sounds of bullfrogs outside instead of ear-shattering hip-hop music from the cars driving by. i am completely in love with this place! there are more cupboards than we can fill! and yes, aunt lil, it is a modular home. the owners bought it after their house burned down a year and a half ago in those awful fires down here. they lived in this modular home while building a new house on the same site as the one that burned down. their house is newly finished, so they decided to keep the modular home and rent it out! their new house is right next to ours. they're really cool people with 2 kids.

so on sunday we had a bbq at josh's folks house with the whole family. poor rob had been stung by a bee the day before and his hand was swollen so big and was really hurting him. he ended up going to a hospital later on and found out that he is allergic! yikes. jamie and cherie flew home on monday and i have been working since then and also getting our old house spic and span. moving is a gigantic pain in the butt, but its so worth it to be in this great place. today josh and i had fun putting all of our plants and flowers out on the front porch and now it looks all pretty. then we took a walk around the pond (me paranoid of rattlesnakes) and then took a boat out and spotted a gargantuan bullfrog on the other side! its so peaceful here, i love it so much. its so bright and open and has windows everywhere. for awhile, josh and i felt like we were housesitting for someone, but its really beginning to feel like home.

tonight my hubby and i are going to eat fabulous chocolate cake and veg. yummy.

bye
--heidi