When we arrived in Walla Walla, we were given the living room, dining room and garage to store all our stuff. So out of the U-haul and into the house and garage. Here are all the boxes stacked in the house neatly waiting our return from the beach. Notice the beds are the most accessible so that when we arrived back in town we could go right to bed after our long day of flying from Jacksonville.
Unpacking, unpacking, unpacking....as we settle in to our new home things beginning to find their place. The garage has become the catch all for empty boxes and those boxes quickly became a glorious fort as you can see in this photo. The boxes straight ahead are the fort.
Our dryer is not working right now but lucky for us the clothes dry on the line faster than they dry in the dryer so here I am setting up the clothes line. Plus the energy savings are fantastic! This is also a picture off our back porch down into the yard and the wonderful play structure.
The boys room is nearly set up. I need something to go either between their beds or 2 bedside tables for reading lights, water bottles and books. Still looking for what will work best there.
This is their play room with all their toys and their tables/desks. We clearly still have some putting away and unpacking in this room but it is coming along nicely and very user friendly for the boys. They are really enjoying listening to their audio books and reading as well as legos and blocks.
The living room has been emptied of all the boxes and is coming along. It needs art which has not been unpacked yet.
To add a little regularity to our lives and meet some folks, we signed Dakota up for swim lessons for two weeks. We have finished the first week and start the second tomorrow. We will do some soccer camp the following week for both the boys.
While we all work on settling into the house, Stuart has also started his new job at Whitman College as the assistant director of the outdoor program called the "OP". Already he has run the Lower Salmon River with two other OP staff members, getting ready for a big training trip coming up this week. This is the busiest time of year for the OP as they are getting ready to send 19 Scrambles into the field next week. A Scramble is a 8-day orientation offered to freshman in a wilderness setting. So the preparation work which falls on the OP staff is quite intense to say the least. The great benefit for Stuart is that he is getting to run the Lower Salmon River twice in the first month of work. Here are a couple of photos of the run he did last weekend. They did a super fast run, 64 miles in 2 1/2 days.
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