We're Here!

Okay, so we are finally in Ohio. After day #1 of our trip we've had no internet access until now so we have felt very disconnected from the world. But, we're up and running now, so life is good. Here is a brief synopsis of the rest of our trip out here. After leaving Denver we travelled to Topeka and spent the night with our friends Steve and Jenn. The drive from Denver to Topeka was painful and dull! Thank goodness we had Harry Potter on CD to listen to! The only two things we saw along the road that day were a 30 foot tall replica of Vangough's Sunflowers and the Freak Farm. Yep, we visited a farm in Kansas that had a 5 and a 6 legged cow. (I'll put pictures on snapfish, you have to see it!) We finally got to Topeka and were really impressed by how pretty Topeka is. I've always pictured it as an ugly prarie city, but it was greeen and beautiful. The next day Steve and Jenn tagged along with us as we visited Kansas City, Independence, Liberty Jail, the RLDS temple, Adam-ondi-ahman, and Jamesport. After saying goodbye to them in Jamesport (an Amish community) we continued on up the road to Nauvoo. We arrived in Nauvoo after dark and were very impressed as we came around the corner to see the temple all lit up and beautiful. It's an impressive site! We spent two full days in Nauvoo and enjoyed our time there! It was definately the highlight of our trip. From Nauvoo we drove all the way into Dayton and arrived here early early Friday morning. We got a hotel room and a few hours of sleep before we met our movers at our house.
So far we have really enjoyed being here. We've had some interesting experiences already, but things are good! John has started work and has been busy doing all of the inprocessing and security measures the Air Force has for him to do. He's been assigned to an area in the AFRL (Air Force Research Labratory) however, I can never remember the name. He'll be working with engines that compress air to make them go really fast. (Speeds of Mach 3 and above). One of these days I'll remember the proper name for it. I'm doing great. I've just been working hard at home trying to get our house put together. Gabe is doing awesome as usual. He has mastered the art of crawling and is even faster and into more things than he was before. He has also started climbing up on things like his bed, our furniture, the toilet. Just this morning I walked into the bathroom to find him sucking on the toilet seat. YUCK!!! He also has one tooth now that is so cute. He is learning to feed himself little foods like cheerios and it is so fun to watch him try to use his fat little fingers to get the food into his mouth.