Happy Times in Charlottesville

The girls love playing house outside on our big back porch.

My favorite part of our kitchen. A vintage, early 1900's china cabinet refurbished.

Standing in the kitchen, taking a picture of our dining room, with the living room in the background. We had just finished breakfast, so please overlook the mess!



On August 1st, the day finally came to move into our new home in Charlottesville, Virginia. We had a wonderful bunch of people help us, including our good friends Audrey and Doug Woodhams who offered to help while on vacation in the US from Switzerland! (You guys were so awesome to give up a vacation day to help us move!)

Now that we are mostly settled into our new home, I'm finally getting around to blogging. Our days here have been simply wonderful. We love Charlottesville. Avery's skin seems to like it much better than Charlotte, for sure. (Though we're not sure if that's simply because it's summer...we will truely see come fall.) There has been mostly lots of laughter and joy coming from our home the past 2 weeks! Kyla and Avery LOVE this place. Avery tells me about once a day that she loves her new house. I love our cozy home and being on one level again.

I made a list of all the places we can walk to within a 10 minute walk or less from our new home. We can walk to 2 parks, the downtown mall (full of unique coffee shops, local shops, restaurants, etc.), the Discovery place for kids, a free merry-go-round for kids to play on, a walking trail near the river. Our church is a 2 minute drive and so are most other places. It's wonderful not spending so much time in the car and also so nice only having to fill up our Honda once every 3 weeks!

We love it here. I'll keep saying it again and again...I feel so blessed to be here with our family. :-)