Busy Saturday

Whew!! What a busy day we had today. The morning started about 5:30 am with Krista heading to the laundry mat to try to beat the Saturday laundry mat rush (if there really is one here). We, unfortunately, don't have our new washer and dryer set yet - it should be delivered on Tuesday, thank goodness!! One nice thing about going to a laundry mat is that you can wash, dry and fold your laundry for the week all at one time. It has been 10 years since I was last at a laundry mat. Brought back memories of undergraduate college days. Now that is a blast from the past. :-) Laundry mats are a lot more expensive when you are washing clothes for 4 instead of 1.

While I was doing laundry, Ryan worked hard on getting our TV and surround sound system all hooked up. We bought a new TV armoire for our front room this past week. I found a local DVD rental store in Shiprock and signed up for a membership. There were lots of great new movies available! Because of all Ryan's hard work today, we were able to watch our first movie on DVD in our new home. It felt great to take a break tonight after working so hard these past few weeks organizing the house and unpacking.

We were able to unpack the last of the boxes in our shed today. It is amazing how movers will use any available room left in a house to unload boxes. We found some things in these boxes that we were wondering what had happened to them in the move. The kids were able to enjoy the beautiful day outside while Ryan and I worked alongside of them. They played in the kiddy pool. We even unpacked a few of the kids' favorite outdoor toys like James' green tractor push toy and Lily's pink yard bucket. It was like Christmas morning in August!!

I made my first trip to the local supermarket today. The past few weeks I had been grocery shopping in Farmington since I was making daily runs to Farmington for house stuff. It was an unique experience to be the only non-Navajo in the store. Everyone was very nice and helpful to me. I felt very welcome. How blessed to have a grocery store that is large and well-stocked within less than 5 minutes from our home! This grocery store is even closer to our house than the Krogers store was to our old house in New Haven. Another plus is that the City Market grocery store is part of the Kroger chain so I can use my Kroger plus card that I already had. How cool is that!!