Getting settled in to our new home in North Carolina

Our first week was busy in North Carolina! We had to get a second car this week. We had only needed one car when we worked next to each, but now that Colleen is going to school again we had to get another car. We looked around at all the small SUVs like the Ford Escape, Honda CRV, Toyota RAV4, Kia Sportage. We settled on a Honda CRV. It is black and has tan leather interior. It will be perfect for putting Kylie in the very back so she doens't mess up the back seat of the car. And it will be great for going camping, etc.

When we bought the car and signed the deal we got to ring a big gong at the car dealer!

Here is our new car fresh out of the dealer lot:
We also went to the DMV to get our driver licenses, and took care of trying to get our house set up. We also were able to relax and spend time outside in our back yard! We noticed that we spend more time outside here in North Carolina than we did in San Diego. We feel that's because we have the back yard right there. In San Diego we would have had to drive to the beach or a park and we didn't get around to it every day.
Kylie also found a new favorite toy: our basketball! She nudges it around and pushes it all over the yard and basically entertains herself playing fetch with herself. It is pretty funny. But she was able to get her teeth into it an pop it so it is now a flat basketball so it is now permantly hers. Guess we need to buy a new one!

Jim started work on Monday (June 8th). He looked all slick in his nice dress shirt and tie as he headed out for his first day!
Here are some of the pictures of the inside of our house so far, we still have some work to do.

Here is our living room. Where the mirror is, we are going to buy a little table and then hand the mirror above it

Here is our bedroom

Here is the guest bedroom, it was painted pink because it was a little girls room before we rented it out!

Here is the kitchen

Here is the office

And here is our sweet wood paneled dining room that is still where some boxes need to be unpacked and where our dog crate is

One we finish hanging everything, unpacking, and decorating we might take some more pictures to post here.

We have a busy week coming up! This Thurday night we are going to a free outdoor beach music concert at North Hills (the neat urban shopping area only 1 mile from us)

http://www.northhillsraleigh.com/news/events/?p=66

Friday night we are going to a free outdoor rock-cover-band concert in downtown Durham in Brightleaf Square:

http://www.historicbrightleaf.com/

It is an area of old tobacco wharehouses that were vacant but the area was rehabbed into shops, dinning, entertainment, etc.

Monday we are going to a birthday party for Colleen's cousin's friend at a cool hip outdoor rooftop lounge in downtown.

http://solasraleigh.com/

Then the following weekend Jim heads to West Virginia to go white water rafting! He is the best man in his friend Kevin's wedding and this is the bachelor party.

Colleen has been studying hard every day, spending most of the day on the laptop for her online classes. (She begins her first class at NCSU campus on June 29th). She even has a helper all day long while she studies:

So we have a lot going on and we are having fun!!!