We have made it to Texas! We are all settled in and unpacked, well all the stuff that didn't go to storage. We decided to only unpack the "necessities" as we will be moving on post as soon as our number is called. It sure is different living here than it was in Missouri. Gone are the days of cold and chilly temps and hello to warm and windy days! Yesterday, the temp outside was 74 (almost a record for El Paso). We were in shorts and T-shirts while everyone back home was gearing up for another visit from mother nature, who decided to dump quite a bit of snow outside (our deepest condolences)! This is our view leaving our apartment complex. This is a view from on post somewhere. Fort Bliss is so big and spread out, I don't know my way around yet. These are the "new construction" on-post housing. I am hoping we will move into these--they are much nicer than the older ones! Of course I had to throw this one in!

There are beautiful sunsets and sunrises everyday, and it is hardly ever cloudy or overcast. Our bodies still are having a hard time adjusting to the time change, we are still operating on MO time. Hopefully we will get used to it soon, it is really bothersome. We are definitely the minority here. I would say it goes #1 Mexican/Hispanic, #2 black, #3 white, #4 Asian.

I guess we live on the NE side of ELP and to go shopping we have to travel to the west side. To get to the west side, we have to drive through the mountains. Let me tell you it is a gorgeous drive! Coming home from our trip to the west side Wayne decided to take a different way. We had to make a u-turn because had he gone any farther we would have been in Mexico (Mexico is black-listed for all military)! It sure is crazy how on one side of the road is the USA and the other is Mexico! You can definitely tell which side is which also...crazy!

Taylor is having a hard time adjusting to living in ELP. I really hope things get easier for her given time. Her school, Andress HS, is so much bigger than any she has ever attended. Her chemistry class even had a drug search yesterday (scared the living daylights out of her)!

Wayne went to the field yesterday and will be back sometime today. I thought it would be nice to make some comfort food for dinner tonight. So this morning I got out the good old crock pot and started some beef stew. It is weird to think we are going to eat this tonight when the temp for today is going to be in the lower 60's. Like I said, it is going to take some getting used to!