Our move to Florida

Hello friends and family! If you click on each photo it will make it bigger. Hope you enjoy!

We visited family before we moved to Florida. We stayed with mom and dad for a week. Here we're visiting and playing aggravation with the family and Nana Dyson.

Visiting with Nana and Papa VanHoorebeke and Aunt Gail and Uncle Tim in Illinois.
Hugging mom and dad goodbye before we drive away on July 1!
We drove separate cars which were packed to the brim with all our things! Shiloh rode in Sarah's car because of the air conditioning, poor Matthew had to sweat the whole way there. :(
Shiloh had fun in her little spot on the way there.
We made it! This is in Cocoa Beach on the east coast our first morning in Florida.

We got to see some truly gorgeous views.
This was Shiloh's first time swimming in the ocean. She was apprehensive at first, but when she realized it was fun she took off all the way down the beach splashing in the waves as she went, it was so cute!
We went to the Fourth of July fireworks in Palm Beach, which is a gorgeous town. The fireworks were shot over the bay. We started out on the left there with tons of people, but decided to sit on the bridge to watch the fireworks. It was a much better view, we got to see the reflection of the fireworks off the water.
It was a great fireworks display, Matthew said the finale was the best he's ever seen.
We found a temporary place! We're staying in Sarasota, on the west side of Florida for a month while we look for a more permanent place. It is fully furnished, with a king size bed woohoo!
The furniture came from a condo here so it's fun that the whole place has a beachy theme.
We love the huge shower.
These lizards are so cute! They run around everywhere and eat the bugs, go lizards!
This palm tree is right outside our patio door, we really love it.
Siesta Key! This is the 3rd best voted beach in Florida. The water is crystal clear so we often search for shells under the water. The sand is like baby powder, we love it.
There are so many beautiful birds here.
These are weird seagulls that we haven't seen since then. We like all the different kinds of birds.
That parasailing company is out there everyday. It looks like fun! That little area near the beach is what we call the kiddie pool. It is about 6 inches of water where lots of people have their kids play, then as the water goes out there is another bank so the kids can't get pulled out to sea. There is also another bank even farther out so Matthew and I swim out to it and enjoy the waves.
We love that there are areas that are just full of people, but if you walk down not too far you can also be almost completely by yourself. It's a very fun atmosphere.
I was excited I got this picture of a seagull! :)
We found this awesome shell, but it turned out there was a snail in it! We brought it home and planned on keeping it as a pet and getting a fish tank, but then decided he would probably be happier in the ocean so we let him go. I named him Shelldon. :)
We have lots of fun here looking for shells, enjoying wildlife and watching sunsets over the ocean. We absolutely love living in Florida and hope we will be able to stay here for at least a little while longer!

Our new place!

We found a place to live in Sarasota for a month while we look for something more permanent. However we can stay here for awhile if we like it. It's a part of a woman's house that they built into kind of a duplex. We have 1 bed/1bath that is completely furnished. The bedroom is huge and comes with a kingsize bed, yay! The kitchen/living room are the same, but I don't mind it being smaller - less to clean! :) We have a patio with 2 swings and a grill. It's fenced in for Shiloh, oh and she has a doggy door too! Which she is too scared to use now :) but we'll try to teach her. It comes with wireless internet and cable, and all we have to pay is the rent - no utilities hooray! It's really nice that everything we need is supplied for us since all our stuff is still in storage. We're going to get it this week but we're soooo sick of the car we need a break.

Also we're 1/2 a mile from both of the places we want to work. The hospital for Matthew - he thinks he might try to get a pca job for now. And the high school for me - I'm going to try to get a tech job with the marching band.

But anyway, for today we're going to go sit at the beach. We're like 5 miles or so from Siesta Key - one of the top 3 beaches in Florida. We couldn't believe it when we went the first time, the sand is literally like baby powder. And it has more waves than the east coast, which is what I wanted. And we bought an umbrella and a chair so we could just sit and watch while we sleep or read a book or whatever. We still have to find a dog beach for Shiloh, but she liked the ocean when we went in Palm beach so I think we'll have fun with her.

We like our new city and hope that everything keeps going well. I'll post pictures of the place later - it's fun, all the furniture is from a condo so there's a beach/vacation theme. We have to say thanks again to Daniel for getting us such nice hotels to stay in while we looked. We super duper appreciate it! We love you all and will continue to update. :)

The beach!

The squid we found after being at the ocean for a few minutes!!!

Update! July 1

Hello! We made it to Valdosta okay. We're staying at a Comfort Inn and we just had breakfast...mmm. :) We're going to head out in a little while for Cocoa Beach! We can't wait to get to that hotel - beach, beach, beach!!! We'll update more when we're...
In FLORIDA!!!!!