Probably my favorite thing about our HHE (household effects) arriving is our bed. We now have our beautiful queen sleigh bed from home with a memory foam mattress.
Here I am enjoying my favorite thing.
Boxes, boxes, and more boxes!!!
Here is the GIGANTIC TV box....this would be Trav's favorite thing...I'll post some pictures soon of our living room back together.
After we got everything out of the boxes, we put them all here in our laundry room and the moving company came and picked them up for us. 
The only casualty of the move was my desk. I'm not sure if you can tell from the picture, but something heavy must have been stacked on top of the desk causing the legs to bow out. It can no longer hold anything heavy and still stay in one piece.
We are well on our way to having our house looking good. On Thursday our Survival Kit will be picked up and that will help alot. Also, we are having a few excess pieces of furniture picked up and I will be trying to get another desk to replace my broken one. By the way...the survival kit included linens, dishes, and everything you need to live on. You get to use it until your own things arrive. Until next time!!
Monday, January 28, 2008
5 Months Later...Our Household Effects Arrive!!
Christmas 2007
After feeling sort of sad about Christmas in Australia, Travis went and bought a little Christmas village that is on the mantle. Then the Christmas cards started coming...it definitely helped!!
Then we added some presents...
The two bags on the ground on either side of the fireplace were our make shift stockings because our stockings hadn't arrived yet. Travis and I went to Kmart (the only big store in town) and bought fun little things for each other. The big stocking in the middle was from our friends in Australia, Mark and Pauline. The day before Christmas we received our stockings and the advent calendar also shown in the picture. It was our little Christmas miracle and helped to make it more special for us!!
Travis got the Santa Claus stocking.
I got the snowman stocking. Travis got me the little stuffed monkey in the stocking.
Christmas turned out to be okay after all. It was nice spending time with our friends here. I think everyone that is away from their family for the holidays gets a little blue. We were lucky enough to find people to be our family here.