lifes a journey.: January

We got our household goods yesterday morning & spent all day yesterday unpacking & washing everything! Still have so much more to go

First, some moments from our everyday lives..

(omelette) hub LOVES making breakfast...

we love to cuddle

this floor never stays clean! always footprints!

Other random daily things:

We have been going to the gym on base a lot. Trying to be fit & healthy.. its been going good.

The truckers took a 3 day break from the strike (thats why we were able to have our stuff delivered) & road blocks are gone right now but word is that they are going back on strike today. It has been a little bit of an inconvenience.. having to drive through a road block every time we leave home for the base (which is every day..) & having no gas. Things also weren't being delivered to the stores... I learned to appreciate milk! I LOVE milk. we bought 4 cartons the day that the commissary got it back in. The strikes are no fun for anyone but I understand why they are doing it. Gas prices are so high (we use gas coupons..but the italians are paying $7 or $8/gal) that they aren't making any money from deliveries etc. & even though its pretty weird to drive through the road blocks REALLY close to lots of parked trucks/tractors/people/signs/barriers.. they have been very nice to us so far. Enough about the strike..

Here are a bunch of pics from the unpacking process:

loaner furniture

these guys were awesome! fast & so nice!

in charge of checking off each item on the inventory

in a sea of packing paper

we have so much stuff! we are so blessed to have so much.
this house is big but very different from our last one..so here we have all kinds of things
in the kitchen that dont seem to match at all! we will get it looking right eventually:)

living room for now. we decided on getting a new couch..

having it delivered on saturday (hopefully)

LOVE having our comfy bed again. new duvet cover from urbanoutfitters.com

front door makes me happy

this is the car we are borrowing from a friend until

robs truck arrives. might consider buying. everyone

needs an island beater!

In the last few weeks we did some other fun things...
So happy to have finished indoc! I learned a lot. But I'm glad its over.
During indoc we spent a day in Catania at the market/lunch/walking around (you probably already saw these pics on facebook but I just cant leave them out!)