We have arrived!

we finally made it. we are officially here in college station! we absolutely love it here. despite the packing, loading of he u-haul, UN-loading of the u-haul and unpacking. it was all worth it. after we unloaded the truck, we went to eat at Texas roadhouse. it was so great not having people rush up to touch our kids heads or eyes. we almost didn't know how to act. was something wrong with our kids? yeah right, something wrong with our kids? i don't think so. after dinner we went to target. they had the most awesome sopping carts i had ever seen! very futuristic.
Sunday morning we were on our way to church. our friend Andrew wouldn't answer his phone so we has no idea what exit to take to get to church. Aaron and i both thought we had to take different exits. typical us. we got off on one exit and that wasn't it so we tried the other exit (which was the one that Aaron remembered) and it was the right one. given all the driving around we did, we still made it to church on time. wow!! that was awesome! everything here is so close together. it is a small town with a big city feel. that same night some members of the church had us over for dinner. it was so nice. there are so many kids there for Kendra and Logan to play with. that is something we didn't have at home, well in the valley.
Monday morning we took the moving truck back and Aaron took off back to the valley to pick up some odd and ends that i left there and also to fix up the house a little bit. we really are praying that the house sells soon. we left his car down there so he took my car. the kids and i have been hanging out at poolside. Monday, we went twice. the best thing about restaurants here is they deliver!! i ordered from the potato shack. not great but considering i had no car and little groceries in the fridge, i wasn't going to complain.
Tuesday i had to do something other than hang at the pool with a bunch of 18-20 something-year-olds in their little bikinis. so what did we do you ask? we went to the local dogie park. yep, that's right. and it was awesome! there was a running trail and the actually "canine station' was gated so there weren't,we finally made it. we are officially here in college station! we absolutely love it here. despite the packing, loading of he u-haul, UN-loading of the u-haul and unpacking. it was all worth it. after we unloaded the truck, we went to eat at Texas roadhouse. it was so great not having people rush up to touch our kids heads or eyes. we almost didn't know how to act. was something wrong with our kids? yeah right, something wrong with our kids? i don't think so. after dinner we went to target. they had the most awesome sopping carts i had ever seen! very futuristic.
Sunday morning we were on our way to church. our friend Andrew wouldn't answer his phone so we has no idea what exit to take to get to church. Aaron and i both thought we had to take different exits. typical us. we got off on one exit and that wasn't it so we tried the other exit (which was the one that Aaron remembered) and it was the right one. given all the driving around we did, we still made it to church on time. wow!! that was awesome! everything here is so close together. it is a small town with a big city feel. that same night some members of the church had us over for dinner. it was so nice. there are so many kids there for Kendra and Logan to play with. that is something we didn't have at home, well in the valley.
Monday morning we took the moving truck back and Aaron took off back to the valley to pick up some odd and ends that i left there and also to fix up the house a little bit. we really are praying that the house sells soon. we left his car down there so he took my car. the kids and i have been hanging out at poolside. Monday, we went twice. the best thing about restaurants here is they deliver!! i ordered from the potato shack. not great but considering i had no car and little groceries in the fridge, i wasn't going to complain.
Tuesday i had to do something other than hang at the pool with a bunch of 18-20 something-year-olds in their little bikinis. so what did we do you ask? we went to the local dogie park. yep, that's right. and it was awesome! there was a running trail and the actually "canine station' was gated so there weren't animals running around all over the place. there was also a very nice and very clean COVERED playground there. a covered playground?! i was in heaven. there was some kids there that were around Kendra and Logan's age. we were there for about 2 hours then headed home. later that afternoon, we went swimming yet again. i didn't want to eat delivery again so i made dinner and the kids and I ate dinner while watching a movie in the living room on the floor. it was great. Kendra said we were camping out. so i ran with it and we got our pillows and blankets and crashed on the floor while watching sleeping beauty.
Wednesday morning has not been so great. well, that is bad to say. it started off great. the kids and i planned to walked to another park down the road. i got a call from Aaron saying the power steering in the car had gone out. thank the lord he was in Harlingen and he knew where to take it to get fixed. while he was doing that, the kids and i took off for the park. we got there and there was a nice "splash pad" for the kids to play on. i had no idea what a splash pad was but i soon found out that it is just a play area that has some equipment that shoots water at the kids. best part,...it was FREE! that right. FREE! the kids were having an awesome time playing until Logan and another little boy ran into each other head on and Logan went flying and landed on the back of his head. he let out this awful scream but there was no blood. i kept checking his eyes to make sure he was concussed. i had to get him home. so Kendra had to stop plying and we started back for the apartment. by the time we got home he was asleep. i woke him up to put a diaper on him and he started crying. i don't have any Tylenol here so i couldn't give him anything for pain. i tried to keep him awake but he kept acting like he wanted to sleep. so to i didn't try to fight him, i let him go to sleep. I've been checking on him pretty regularly in hopes that nothing is wrong. i cant wait until Aaron gets back with my car just in case i have to take him to the hospital.
we were suppose to be going over to Jill and Andrew's house for pizza before church tonight but i don't think that is going to happen.
so in a nut shell, my first few days in college station have been, well....surreal. i still thinking I'm dreaming and that I'm going to wake up soon. i just keep telling myself that its only Wednesday.