Welcome to our family's new blog.  Some of you may remember our old Zookeepers blog, where I rambled about happenings around our house.  Well we are making some changes.

Since our family is entering a new chapter of life we decided to change our blog too.  The whole family will be writing posts so you can see things from different perspectives.  We also have a new name and we will no longer be using code names for the kids.

I stopped blogging when we moved to California because I didn't feel it was a wise use of my time when Russell was deploying so much.  Sorry to my family that missed the updates.  Now Russ is retiring and we are moving into the civilian world. 

Lots of changes in store for us.  New state, new job, new lifestyle... all very exciting.  We are heading for Alabama.  For a variety of reasons we have chosen to move to a city we have never been to before.  Of course we are used to doing this with the military but now we were able to chose our next adventure.  We are very excited for all this new place seems to offer.

A little bit about the beginning of our adventure.... movers will be here next week.  We will live in our empty place for a little over a week.  My folks have graciously allowed us to then move in with them for a little over 3 weeks before we leave California.

We will be in California until July 21.  We then plan to drive to AL in 4 days. :) I am so grateful that my kids are such good travelers.  Russ and I will be driving separately since we have two vehicles.  This will be different for us.  We plan to rotate kids through the 2 vehicles so that should keep things interesting.

I am very excited to get there and find a house to rent.  We have already found many wonderful possibilities online. I really look forward to having a yard!  Once we get settled we are hoping to buy a place with some property.

So that is what is going on with us right now.  I hope you will enjoy future posts from other family members.