Summer Lovin'

A picture's worth a thousand words.  And in our case a thousand words ain't much because we can talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk....

By the way, Emily informed me last night that I probably won't be a part of her wedding because I'll be too old.  I will be.  I can't be walking down the aisle with some youngen looking old.  Why do you think I married Matt?  He's my fountain of youth.

Loves.

It's been nearly two weeks since arriving to the Peach State and here are our favorite things about the area so far:

1) The Big 90's Weekend - We heard it when we were down here last time apartment hunting.  It's a radio station that plays only 90's music on the weekend.  Yes, that means BSB and *NSYNC.  I bet you can guess what I'm listening to right now.  I included the link so you can listen online.  You're welcome.

2) The Roswell Dog Park - literally a 10 minute walk from our front door step.  Super-convenient.  In fact, we have a date there with the neighbor's dog in about two hours.

3) House hunting - No, it's not ALWAYS a kick in the pants to look at all the houses and they sometimes run together.  But when you stumble across the most delicious house that is within your price point AND only a 20 minute drive to work AND has an updated kitchen AND a porch (that possibly wraps around) AND has a fireplace in the kitchen?  Where do I sign?

4) My sleeping buddy - Nigel has always slept with us.  But we have a new routine now.  Matt gets up around 7:30-8:00 in the morning, walks Nigel, and Nigel gets back in bed with me.  And we snuggle.  It's a win-win situation.  I get to sleep in and Nigel gets pure snuggles.  We were made for each other.

A Tour of Our New Home!

Hi all!
     We've made a video tour of our new apartment for everyone.  This is so you have a good idea of what our little piece of Georgia looks like.  Can't wait for everyone to come see us!

Love,
Matt, Jenn & Nigel

The Lawsons Went Down to Georgia

Moving is exhausting.  I don't remember any of my previous moves being so tiring.  Of course, I have more than twice the stuff I used to have thanks to May 15, 2010.  However exhausted we are were, we made it to Georgia and are settling into our apartment.  A video tour of our humble abode will follow, but for the time being, here is the sequence of events for the move. 

1)  We loaded up our containers.  It was a tough one, but we squeezed it all in.  Seriously.  We've gotta lotta stuff.

2) We packed up the last of our things during our last few days - toiletries, clothes, cleaning supplies.  Nigel.  Yup, we found him like this.  Apparently he thought we'd leave him behind. 

3) Matt threw out his back the last day.  Sometimes I wonder if he was just trying to get out of packing.  He's smiling in the picture, but not out of happiness.  Out of embarrassment that he could sit up any further than the position he is in the photo.  My poor, old husband.

4)  We said good-bye to Charlottesville...

5)  ... and hello to Georgia!



Last Day in Charlottesville

I thought I was in the clear.  I thought that we had run out of time to venture off to anymore presidential homes.  We were hitting the road in 36 hours... I was home free.  Or so I thought.  Matt found out that through the Army (thank you Uncle Sam) we could visit Monticello for free.  We had no excuse not to go (except for the impeding move, but that didn't seem big enough to keep Matt away)...

We had already been to the visitor center because we didn't think I'd be able to go through the house so when we arrived we went straight for the bus.  The bus treks you up a long, steep hill and drops you off in front of the house.  We walked through the gardens and checked out the views before starting the house tour.  I think the part about the house I liked the most was the library and patio.  I really like built-in shelves and the entire library was lined with them and some 6,500 books.  Yeesh, that's a lot of books.  Did you know that Jefferson died broke.  I bet it was because of his book obsession.  That's why I keep Matt out of Barnes and Noble.  You're welcome, Lawson.

Matt likes the dining room.  Why?  Because it's bright yellow.  Supposedly yellow was a super expensive color to make so it was painted yellow to impress the guests.  It also had wine dumb-waiters built into the fireplace so Jefferson could serve his guests himself.  Oh, and the skylights.  There's 13 in the entire house.  Matt loves him some skylight. 

The outside was better than the other houses because there were flowers and activities to do.  For example, Matt learned how to write with a quill.  And Matt thinks he's awesome at quill-writing. 



So as we are currently lying in a bed in South Carolina on our way from Virginia to Georgia, I don't have to live in regret that I missed visiting the home of my childhood hometown's namesake.  Go Sages!



Pardon Us for This Brief Interruption....

We haven't forgotten about updating the blog!  I'm lucky to remember anything right now until we get all settled and moved to Georgia.  With the hectic-ness of packing up all the PODS (and there were a LOT of 'em), camping in our apartment, finishing up work, traveling to Georgia and unloading all of said PODS we're going to need a minute to regroup.  We'll be back soon as Georgians!