Here are the pictures of our lil house.  It's 1100 square feet and it's just perfect for us!  We have a nice big back yard.  It's like living in a fruit market...we have pomegranate, lime, grapefruit, lemon and kumquat trees on the property that are just LOADED with fruit.  Our neighbor across the back fence has apple and orange trees that she said we could help ourselves to!  

We are getting settled slowly but surely!  Go figure that our second week here we had a "record breaking" heat wave.  To top it off our air conditioner, that is a 30 year old lil wall unit, made the outlet it was plugged into smoke.  I am grateful b/c if we had drywall (instead we have plaster) the house probably would have caught fire!  So in the middle of the heat wave we were without air for 3 days!  Welcome to Cali!  But the owner put a new unit in (plugged into a different outlet) and we are waiting for an electrician to come out and diagnose the problem.  

Justin is liking his job.  He got an real life view of an L.A. standoff last week!  He works in one of the few sky-rises in old town Pasadena.  From his window he got to watch a standoff take place with tons of cop cars and the whole street blocked off.  We never did figure out exactly what happened but it was exciting for him...he loves that kind of stuff!  He said it was so cool and just like TV!

We have arrived in Monrovia, CA and are getting settled into our home.  We are loving this area!  It's weird that neither one of us know where anything is, thank God for the internet!  It makes it that much more of an adventure!  We are finally to the point where we are not tripping over boxes...YEAH!  I like living in a smaller space.  It has taken quite a bit of elbow grease to scrub this little place down!  But the house is charming!  Justin is liking his new job.  He is home by 4:30 everyday!  Alana is getting adjusted to all the change.  She hasn't slept through the night yet but I'm guessing it will take a while for her feel totally comfortable!  Love and miss you all!