We Made It!!

We are now here in Virginia Beach!!! We came in this weekend and checked into our temporary home (the hotel on base). We've spent the last couple of days driving around getting to know the lay out and finding a home!!!! We finally found a perfect place to hang our hat and should here back later this week with a move in date. Mean while though we purchased the family membership to the base pool and Drew already has little pool buddies!!! We are very excited about our new tour here in Virginia, and so far we give it two thumbs up!

More Time In The Car...

So we hit the road for our last stretch of our journey to Virginia. Mimi (Alicia's mom) gave Drew some magazines to tear apart in the back and WOW did this keep him busy!!! Now if Mimi can come here and clean our car out....;)
This is what saved us on our drive cross country....

Late Birthday!

While back in Iowa we celebrated Drew's birthday a few weeks late and from papa and mimi he got a wagon and a cool birthday card that sang a Shrek song when you opened it! We also thought it would be fun to have Drew wear the overalls that my dad wore when he was a little boy:)

Drew's First Hair Cut

The time had FINALLY come (this is him before his hair cut having a pep talk with Ms. Vicky), and he hit a year which meant it was time for his FIRST haircut!!! My neighbor in Iowa is a hairdresser so it made the experience even more special. Drew at fist was a wiggle worm, UNTIL he discovered the water bottle!!! He did great:)

Drew LOVED having water squirted in his mouth!AND thought it was hilarious when mommy did it to daddy!!!

Our little boy isn't little anymore!!!

Parents night out!!! We went out on a date (my brother came with..) we had a great time and Drew was in good hands with papa and mimi

Ahhhh The Midwest...

Drew was fascinated when he discovered the lawn mower in the shop! Daddy took him for a spin on it and he thought it was the COOLEST!
Andy with his dad after an evening of fishing on the boat
Helping us wash the car and of course playing in the water!

Travels Through Minnesota

Drew came across the lawn mower at the shop and was fascinated by it! Daddy took Drew for a spin on it and Drew thought it was the COOLEST!
Andy and his dad had a evening fishing trip and came home with dinner!!

Playing in a bucket of water helping us wash our car!

Gardening Drew

Andy and I left in the morning to do a few errands and when we came home we found Drew in the garden (with grandma Olsen) with his pajamas on tearing up the rhubarb and eating it straight out of the garden!!!! He loved the sour taste!!

In The Woods....

So we finally made to to Andy's home town in MN! We arrived last night and it's great to NOT be in a hotel and eating out! Today we had a nice walk in the woods and Drew dug all the animals that we saw!

Ahh So Many Faces...

So we were in the car (hour 5 of 8....) and I decided to have some camera fun! In a matter of about 30 seconds I was able to capture about 40 different expressions from our little man! (can you tell we were bored)!

Our Last Stretch...

SOOOO, it's not yet spring in Vail, CO!!! It snowed on us and we had to call ahead to see if the pass was open to get through! Don't worry, the Subaru made it just fine!!

Um... Yah.. .you may be wondering where we are here... this is the "fast way" to MN from South Dakota according to Andy. (yes it's gravel roads...)

Olsen's On The MoVe!!!

OK so you may have wondered what the heck happened to us!! It's been a CrAzY past few weeks. Three weeks ago Andy left for a field exercise in Northern Cali for two weeks. Knowing this we purchased an airline ticket for Drew and I to go back to MN and IA to visit our family while Andy was gone. Please remember we bought this airline ticket like in Jan.... so late spring we find out that were moving!! Long story short, Andy came back on the 2nd of May, Drew and I returned from our visit to the Midwest the 3rd of May and the moving truck came to move us on the 5th of May!!! It been a crazy, BUT fun past few weeks. We started our journey on Thursday to our new destination of Virginia Beach! We left on Thursday after a great goodbye party Wednesday night.

We decided to take advantage of the time Andy has off and see some friends along our way, so we jumped down to San Diego Thursday and spent the night and then hit the road on Friday morning and made it to Utah where were staying tonight. Were taking our time and actually the road trip has been a blast, we've totally trashed the inside of the car with bags where zippers are ready to explode and found hotels with pools!! We'll keep you posted this is only day two.....

Olsen

Can you find Drew in this mess???
The pizza parlor where we went for dinner made Drew his very own pizza in the shape of a one when they heard that it was his FIRST birthday!!!
This is Nancy our navigator... she's been great!!!

Day one of our cross country trip.....

Sea World!

Drew didn't know what to think of the seals!


In ahhh during a show

After Sea World we spent the night with our friends Laura and Dave and met up with our old San Diego gang!