We've made it here and are all doing well! We've had some wonderful people help us get acquainted with our new city. We still need to find an apartment and get accepted at a university to study. Finding an apartment here seems to be more complicated than we imagined, hopefully there's something out there that will work for our family. We'll start looking later this week. Hopefully the realtors will show us what they really have, not the things they are just trying to get rid of!
The local people have been quite friendly, and they especially love to try to talk to Emily. They'll pull her out of our shopping cart or try to pick her up if she is walking around the store. She's getting more comfortable with all the attention and though sometimes shy, she'll say "bye bye" to everyone. The department store workers will play with toys with her (in our view) while we check out the children's department. Today a bakery lady tried to give me her umbrella when she saw me leaving the bakery in the rain with no umbrella. Very sweet people.
There are many things here we didn't expect to find, so that has been comforting! Even good ice-cream.... you know how much that means to the pregnant lady! Dreyers Cookies and Cream and Rocky Road, as well as Magnum bars which are very tasty! :)
The only piece of furniture we've already bought is a crib- which Emily is using now, and Aubrey can use soon! :)
The weather here has been nice. The sun has come out quite a bit, with nice lightning storms at night!
We've all been healthy since we arrived and we're sleeping well at night. We do a LOT of walking during the day and will be glad when Emily is a little older and can do the walking by herself!
Right now we don't have internet at our home... so communication is spotty at the moment. It may take a few weeks more to get that set up. There are a few coffee shops around town where we can go to get a wireless connection, so we should be in touch every few days or so. We also have friends who say we can come to their place if we need to get out some communication... so please send us emails! We'd love to hear from you!
Pictures to come soon... I forgot the camera this time.
We traveled a bit outside of the city today and here are some of the shots.
Any time outside is a happy time for Emily!
Her hair only seems to grow in the back. :)
Check out the cool old man (if you want to see the pic bigger, just click on it).
Visiting with the shoe shiners
Lunchtime! Yummy yummy eats! $2 later we were quite full!
These pics are from the last few days of March when the Messies came to see us at my parents house. When my dad heard that our blog readers were asking for a belly shot, he had this to offer........
Here's a more appropriate belly shot. :) Aubrey seems to be doing well in there... she gives good strong kicks all the time! 
We found this pic from 4 years ago of Bridger as a puppy! Now this is his new family! Everyone looks so much older now... except for Leslie - she looks just as young!
This week we all got to go to Washington DC! We enjoyed the day out, and it was Scott and Emily's first time to go there. Here are those 2 at the original Smithsonian building.
The Air and Space Museum was interesting for all of us! 
We strolled around the mall with some friends and their 2 year old too.
The cherry blossoms were out even though the sun wasn't. And beautiful purple flowers were everywhere. 
Emily was happy even though it rained and blew gusty winds.
This picture snuck in twice... ooops.
She also likes her new pull-up bar which is an all around workout machine you can do different things with. She finds even more creative ways to use it than the creator intended, and loves to exercise with Daddy.
We went for our ultrasound on the 18th, and here's the little gal we saw! She looks healthy and is already one pound! Normally at 20 wks a baby would only be 10 ounces. She's quite ahead of the curve! This is her head and her little fist by her chin. We are thinking we like the name Aubrey Mei, but we haven't settled on that for sure yet.
Emily loves her winter hat and tries to put it on all by herself. It ended up on backwards, but securely fastened. :) She's going to have so many things to teach her little sister!
Emily was sick for Valentine's Day weekend, but is feeling mostly better now! So she wore her special Valentine's dress today and loved it! Thanks for thinking of us when she was fighting her fever. Hopefully she'll be strong tomorrow when she has to go get a few shots! Daddy has to get more than her though! :)
Always a ready smile... and then runs to look at the camera to see how her picture turned out!
Playing in grandpa and nana's flower bed. (This pic is a few weeks older than the videos below... and in a different state. I got a little out of whack with the space time continuum.)