Our House in California

Okay, so I've had quite a bit of requests to see pictures of our new house. We were lucky enough to get a house on our first day on-base. The house is on-base, behind the hospital (which will come in handy!), it's about 12 miles in from the front gate so it's a quiet area. It's a one story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1 car garage, with a medium-sized fenced-in backyard. I can't wait to start putting our personal touches into the house! Here's the house from the other side of the street.
Another view of the front of the house. I would like to put in some plants and flowers in the front flower beds. They are pretty bare right now.

This is the back of the house and the backyard. We are lucky to have a tree in our backyard, most don't. This is the view from our back porch/yard. This is why we decied to put the porch swing back here. We are so thankful we have a house that backs up to the open mountatins/valleys. Most of the houses back up to each other or the "tot lots"(play areas).

**for some reason, I can't get the pictures of the inside of the house to load correctly on the page; I will keep trying**

We Made It!!

Well, we finally made it to California! We left Virginia Dec. 31 and arrived in Florida Jan. 1. We visited Dad, Gramma, Walter, Jenny, Brianna & Travis while we were down there. We were so greatful to be able to see them before we headed West. We left Florida Monday Jan. 6. We made our way to Mississippi the first day, then to San Antonio, TX, then to El Paso, TX (Texas is a HUGE state!), then made it to Oceanside, CA on Thursday night. Luckily we didn't run anto too much trouble along the way (minus the flat tire and almost running out of gas). The doggies did a good job of riding. Molly slept most of the way and Caleb just watched for squirrels (we haven't seen many here in CA). They both seem to LOVE the new house and the fenced in back yard is Molly's favorite place. She loves to go out and roll around in the grass and lay in the sun!

Here are a few pics of our cross country experience:

Here I am in front of The Alamo -- we made a VERY quick stop here

This is what Caleb and Molly did most of the trip.

This is telling us that we have ZERO miles to go until we're EMPTY! The nearest gas station was 6 miles away....made us a bit nervous! But, we made it...on fumes I'm sure!

This is what the majority of Texas looked like. The roads were completely flat but there were mountains in the distance. It got a bit repetitive....

Mitchell wanted to be sure we got some pics of the cactuses. The majority of them looked like they were dying though.

Here I am once we arrived to California. I'm 23 weeks in this picture (I'm 24 now). I should be getting a new ultra-sound pic soon. I'm hoping it will be my 3-D ultra-sound.

That's about it for now. I will try to get some pics up of our house and all. We have gotten everything unpacked and the majority of it is put away, took us about 2 days. We are still waiting for our new living room furniture to arrive...

Here is our new address:

Mitchell & Allison Guard 196 Los Padres Drive Oceanside, CA 92058