My little helper

Sunday was Steven's first day of work...he then texted that morning that Monday was his Kelley day...so his first shift was only a half shift. (One day instead of two.) Emma and I went to church, then came home to skype. Oh, I forgot to mention that she woke up at 4:30 or 5AM. So she was tired, as you can tell from the first picture. She fell asleep on the floor under the chair. I put a blanket on her and left her there. She slept for like 3 hours. When she woke up, I heard her make a little "Emma" noise and then there was a tiny little knock on the door. It was adorable. The last two pictures are of Emma cleaning. We were eating dinner and I commented that the table was dirty, so Emma went to the drawer where her diaper stuff was, got out a wipe and cleaned the table. Then she decided to start on the floor. I never told her to do any of this. She just loves to help!

Tired girl

Cleaning the table

Such a good little helper

Our new house

Yesterday housing called us to tell us they had a house to offer us. So we called back to today/then went to base to check it out, and this is what we have found out:
We can move in July 2nd.
It is a 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house, with a 1 car garage and partially enclosed patio. (2 stories)
The 2-bedroom housing lady (Robyn Reynolds) told us that she thinks it is about 900 square feet. I think that estimate might be a little small, since that is what our old house was. It seems much better arranged though.
It is across the street from the park that we take Emma to when we are on base. :)
It is down the street from Fire Station 2.
We can put up a fence if we want, but when you see the view from our house, you will understand why we might wait to do that.
It is on a hill, with no homes behind it, so we have a beautiful, unobstructed view from our back yard.
Also, we have to get Pepper checked out by the base vet before we move in. However, between the vet's availability and Steven's schedule, the ONLY time in the whole next month that we could get her in is next Tuesday at 8:30. Steven gets off at 7:30 Tuesday morning, and it takes an hour to get from the station to our hotel, so Emma and I will have to take him to work Sunday morning and pick him up Tuesday morning and then go to breakfast and the vet.

UPDATE: Steven said on the floor plan she gave us it said 1050 (1067)sqft, not counting the stairs or garage. I took pictures of the floor plan and posted them, too.
And here are some pictures. The first few are what she sent us of the inside. The last ones I took as we drove by. We are pretty excited.

Front living room

Laundry room, half bath

Master bedroom

Upstairs full bath

Back dining nook

I took this so you can peek at the back of the homes.

And Emma swinging

There is our house, as we walk from the park

View from the back of the house

Front of the house

Side of the house, space between neighbors

Lower level

Upper level

Sacramento Zoo

Today we finally went to the zoo. Emma has been having a lot of trouble sleeping since we have been at the hotel room...naps are all off, and this morning she woke up at 4:38AM. So that meant nap time was at like 8AM. So we didn't get to the zoo until lunch time, apparently the same time every other child in Sacramento decided to go. But we had fun. She especially loved the flamingos...they were close, big, noisy and moving all around. Some of the animals must have been inside since it was hot, but we also saw, a jaguar, tiger, lion, giraffes, ostriches, zebras, lemurs who hopped around for us and other monkeys who swung all around. She was not a fan of the reptiles...when she would actually realized where they were, so close to her on the other side of the glass, she got scared. And we lost a binky to the tiger/lion, I didn't figure I should climb the fence to go get it. We also rode the carousel before we left. :) It was a good time...it was especially nice to get out of our hotel room and get to enjoy something in our new home. (They had road runners in their zoo...which is funny because they had them all over Texas.)

Checking out the pond. 

Peeking at the flamingos

Checking out a horn bill (bird)

Playing on some rocks.

Ready, set go! Emma says this and then Daddy does something silly.

That looks like fun!

She warmed up to it the longer we were on.

Playing at the Park, Roseville edition

We have been to two parks so far in Roseville. They have both been very nice, although the first one didn't allow dogs, so Pepper couldn't enjoy all the nice green grass. The one we found today was very nice, and Pepper loved it, too.

Emma had trouble walking in the grass because it was so thick.

Pepper rolling around in the grass

Happy dog

Sliding with Daddy

Spinning with Daddy

Climbing with Daddy

Yay for climbing!

Wheee!

Chili, movies, and general silliness

We are in our hotel room in Roseville, CA. We moved here a couple days ago, but we have been exhausted. I can't wait until we finally get into a house and can stop unpacking and repacking all of our stuff. This room is nice, it has two separate rooms and a kitchenette. It will be interesting cooking though, as we only have a microwave and a stove top (no oven). Thankfully the hotel provides dinner 3 nights a week for free, and a pretty good breakfast every morning. We have had a little fun exploring the area...the Roseville/Rocklin area is very nice...for rich people. But we are enjoying their parks, nice green grass and lots of good restaurants and shopping. This place is 30-45 minutes from base, but it will probably take Steven an hour to get to work from here. He doesn't have to go in to work until next Friday.
These pictures are miscellaneous from the last few days.

Before...all her bibs were dirty

After

Sorry it's dark...birthday snuggles with Daddy

watching Frozen while Mommy packs again

Pajamas at the park

This morning Emma woke up a little after 6, which is typical since we got here. It gets light out pretty early, and with the time change, that is just when she gets up. So we ate breakfast and then she and I snuggled on the couch for about and hour, until she decided she wanted to play. Then Daddy came down and they went outside. Apparently Pepper went out too, because I heard Steven call my name to come get the dog. Emma called my name, too. "Hope!" she said. I looked at her funny and said, "Um, my name is Mom." She thought it was funny. Then Daddy taught her how to spit. (Daddy teaches Emma how to do lots of things.) And the left for the park. So I got ready for the day, and Pepper pestered me until we left for the park, too. Apparently they just walked there, Emma in her pajamas and everything...although she did have a bow and shoes on. What a fun start to our morning. :)

Running to play!

She is becoming a pro at climbing.

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Sliding with Daddy.

Wheeee!

Picking flowers for Mom.

Heading home

Walking by herself.

Stopping to get stuff out of her shoe.

All better.

Beale AFB, CA...or KS

So when we got to base, we came in the main gate....then drove like 5 miles to the lodging office. 5 miles of just farmland, cows grazing and everything. Then we had to drive another 5 miles to get to our room. Living on this base is like living in the country. So I thought I would post some pictures. They have designated hunting grounds, 2 lakes for fishing and lots and lots of trails and wide open space. They have 5 gates because it takes so long to get anywhere, and it makes it much easier to get to outlying areas that way. Even living on base, it takes Steven probably 20+ minutes to get to the fire station...mostly driving 50mph. And after driving around FOREVER just to look at 3 houses that we didn't even like once we got there, we decided to just wait on base housing. We will have to live in a hotel off base for a little over a month until we can get a house. For those who come to visit there is good shopping about a half hour away and who knows what else we will discover to do around here.

Don't know if you can see, but there are mountains back there.

Typical view of base.

Turkey we found roaming behind our TLF after our walk.