We have a TOAD..... His name is Luigi!

Meet LUIGI!!!!

This is our TOAD - Our vehicle we will be towing behind The Nest when we hit the road... We love this car. It is a 2012 Fiat convertible and he is awesomesauce! 

Evan gets tickled at me cause I am also excited over the fact that Luigi's color matches The Nest and we will be color coordinated on the road... 

We previously had  THIS Yukon aka Gas SUCKER. 

I have to say that we NEEDED this Boat when we purchased it. We carried 7 people around for several years... Us 2, 4 kids and my MIL. But since we are moving only 4 of us are going therefore we were able to minimize to Luigi! And we LOVE HIM! 

Luigi is awesome on fuel... we drove him 334 miles before filling up this weekend. 33 miles to a gallon. How flipping cool is that???

Since we are moving in 4 days - YES 4 DAYS - to Columbia for 7 months, we are planning to drive back to the Upstate, every other weekend for family dinners. So Luigi will totally be worth the purchase in fuel alone. 

Here are a few pics from this past weekend...... Us in Luigi! 

Fun times had by all this past weekend...... Since Sunday it has been full on work... Cleaning out the house, moving it into The Nest. 

Washer & Dryer picked up yesterday along with a ton of "Stuff" we did not need.

Bunches going on this week... My 18 year old is graduating Thursday, my parents are coming into town for ceremony, my 7 yo is finishing 1st grade, movers on Saturday, final cleaning of house on Sunday, Shopping trip with teenagers on Monday then I am off (with 2 yo in tow) to meet up with Evan and son in Columbia to start our 7 months in the campground...... 

Yes, I am just a weeeee bit stressed.... But I am Happy!!!! 

Count down to June 1st......

It has been over a month since I last posted and boy oh boy did that month fly by......  Our notice to vacate our house has been turned in to the landlord... We have The Nest home from the doctor (shop) and we are really itching to hit the road....

Yesterday I was out near our new home - well the campground we will be living in for the next 7 months..... I have totally fallen in love with it... and yesterday despite the cloudy skies, it was like sunshine to me driving in to take some pictures of where we will be in 10 days - OMG 10 DAYS we will be living in The Nest....

Our New Home!!! 

Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park at River Bottom Farms

Our Site - #24

Big, Shady, Clean, Near Walking Trails

New Playground being built

New Swings

Pool Pool Pool!!!!!!

Other side of Pool Pool Pool!!!!!!

We are so excited! Kids are excited! 

Now is the time to crack down on getting our house emptied and our stuff in the rig...... 

We experienced a rough weekend with the hard rain that came through our area. In fact we had a leak! A LEAK! Scared me to death. All I thought about was the floor rotting and falling thru and us not having a place to live out our dreams..... After much head scratching, searching for locations of the leak and consulting on the "nomadic do it yourself" facebook page we concluded the partnering of the rain, open slide and the fact we were not level allowed for water to get in the rig and soak our carpet.... 

The water was in the carpet in the middle of the hall AND in front of the bench seat in this picture. 

I was scared to death but once we decide the issue, we re-leveled the rig and sucked the water out of the carpet with a carpet cleaner.... now the carpets are dry (And clean since we cleaned all the other carpet with the cleaner) and I am once again HAPPY! 

One step closer..... :) 

On our way to living our dreams.....