Red and white pollka dotted tiki torches!

My new quest, now that our kitchen floor is being redone today, are tiki torches. I've found through google you can find just about ANYTHING. I mean shopping-wise. Google has allowed my shopaholicness to be a little more out of control than before, but it's making our new house come together amazingly! So the other night we were shopping at Carolina pottery and I saw this mailbox decoration that was red and white polka dotted with a D for Dyer on it. I was so excited when I found matching cushion covers for our new patio furniture! To finish off our outside decorating I'm thinking that tiki torches would be SO awesome. But being as matchy-matchy as I am, I'm on my google quest to find red and white polka dotted tiki torches. And I need 3 hanging baskets of red cascading flowers! Wish me luck!! I'm off to google around so that I can get the pictures of our house posted up soon!

We had such an amazing time for our couple day getaway to Disneyworld. What an amazing place! I had only ever been to Disneyland and Aaron was in Disneyworld when he was just as little as Aalyah. Aalyah was actually really good, and Bailee too. This was in celebration of Bailee and Aaron's birthdays and Easter. I think everyone's favorite is Splash Mountain...and of course the girls LOVED getting to see all the princesses and fairies, which we stood in line for about 3 hours to see. Let me just say.... portable DVD players are amazing! I don't know how we took road trips as kids without them, because I certainly wouldn't do it now.

Aalyah has started saying a new word...I'm ashamed to admit that her way of letting us know she is thirsty is "Dew" meaning Mountain Dew. Does this mean we drink entirely too much soda? I went on a soda ban for sooooo long!

Our unpacking is coming along in our new house. I'm excited to put on the final touches this next week and then take pictures of our new house to post up for everyone to see. We got our bed done last night but I'm going to wait until all my makeup boxes are off the floor to start taking pictures. Aaron has officially given me both closets in our bedroom. I think having two closets in the master bedroom mean his and hers closets and the dual sinks, but my stuff has quickly bumped him into the guest closet and bathroom. :)

Bailee is almost done with 3rd grade! What a smart little angel! We are going to find some time this week to go see the new Hannah Montana movie. She also wants to see the Fast and the Furious (she wouldn't like movies like that due to the way her mom drives would she?!)

After getting back from a long drive to Orlando, I want to load the pictures soon but I had a lot of school work! I thought I would mention the two riddles that we came up with from this trip....

Q. How do you know you are married to the best family man ever?

A. He can sing the ENTIRE Hannah Montana introduction song! (I don't even know all the words!)

He kindly asked Bailee if she had anything different after reciting the whole song.... :)


Aaron asking Alicia during our discussion of the fact that I don't know the location of any of the 50 states except the two that I have lived in...

Aaron: So honey...what's south of North Carolina?
Alicia : Florida??!?!
Aaron: (laughing)
Alicia: What?! I know we have to go south to get to Florida today!
Aaron: Well, the state that we have to go through to get to Florida that is SOUTH of NORTH Carolina is South Carolina. (more laughing!)

I admit...I can only locate a few states if they are not labeled on a picture of the U.S.

Having just moved to North Carolina, I figured this would be a perfect time to start blogging. I need to get into picture taking mode a little more often, but I do have some cute ones of the girls at the beach, and we are getting ready for a little weekend getaway to Orlando so the girls can see Disneyworld. It's in honor of celebrating Aaron and Bailee's birthdays. I sometimes love looking at my familys blog posts on those nights that I just can't sleep but I know the rest of the world is.

It's been fun settling into our new house. It's a cute house. It was hard to pick a house out over the internet, but we did get a very cute little neighborhood with much friendlier people than what lived in Caldwell or Nampa Idaho. The doorbell constantly rings for Bailee because all of her little friends want her to go out and play.

I'm posting the first picture of the girls at the beach. Aaron and I are making plans to at least go to the beach once a month while it's warm (I think it's everybodys favorite!) But it is a little busy with jobs and school full time for both of us. My legal research class is kicking my butt! I've spent at least 15 hours on that class so far this week and I am nowhere near done.

I am absolutely in love with North Carolina though. I always wanted to move to California but Aaron assured me over and over again we could not afford our lifestyle out there and that North Carolina would have just as much if not more with a little southern hospitality too! I'm still a little confused by all of the roads out here (he's always telling people I really didn't make it off the potatoe farm too often :) ) But I have managed to get the address of both the Bebe's out here into my GPS (I won't mention my nickname for that thing on here though) because it has been known to tell me to go the wrong way on a one way! And that's when Aaron let's me know it's just electronics and it's not perfect. I guess that's my electrical engineer baby for me! I will never understand what he does!