MalibuBarbie: It was time for an update anyway

Honestly not much has been going on, you forget how much you miss the stuff that's in your house until you don't have it anymore.

Last Friday we drove to LA to get MalibuSadie and I am so excited to have her back! It was really neat driving past Hollywood, Santa Monica and Sunset Blvd. I can't wait to take a trip there that is purely pleausre rather than a rescue mission to get my baby girl!

My Uncle had a heart attack this weekend, but he is recovering really well now and was even sent home today. I imagine it was really rough for my family, but even tougher for TJ, for being so far away while his papaw was in the hospital.

My mom just told me this evening her Father in Law has just had a heart attack and so I'm sure he could use any prayers you guys are willing to spare.

So onto the housing issue. We had picked out this house in the newest community on base. It was a 2 bedroom/2 bath and 2 car garage. It was the only one available and the people had just moved out the day we arrived on base. We had to wait while they did all the maintence and everything and that is what we have been waiting on. We were supposed to get the keys tomorrow and move in on Friday (since this is a long weekend anyway) but the lady called today and said there was a huge pest problem. Basically these little black bugs are crawling over the brick fences and taking over. She said they are getting calls from people saying these bugs are in their kids beds and in their washer in dryer, etc. Not exactly something we want to deal with.

Oddly enough, last night we were driving around the other neighborhoods just as a "are you sure". We drove up to this one that was a 2 story we never wanted to see, since our home in Alaska was 2 story. Well, after MalibuKen told the lady at housing we didn't want to deal with the bugs she actually sent us to the one we drove up to last night. It is a 2 story, 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath house....very much like our last home in Alaska.

I will post some pics of it down below. There are some cons, it's the "oldest" built houses on base, the back yard has a brick fence in the very back but connecting our neighbor its only chain link. We currently will no have neighbors though. While the garage is the same size as the other one, it only has a one car door, however our driveway is so large, I think we will use it as "man" cave anyway.

Overall, I actually like it much better and it's kinda crazy to think that had we not written it off in the first place we probably would be moved in by now :)

The good is: I like the layout better, it actually looks bigger than the other place. It has a pergola in the backyard already built so that MalibuKen doesn't have to. There is a playground right around the corner and we get a front yard that has grass and we can landscape beautifully. I also like that if we get neighbors the only part of the house that is attached is the living room rather than the bedrooms.

It is technically not ours yet, but it is "move in ready" so hopefully *prayers* we will get the keys in the morning.

The outside: