Welcome to Illinois

 And finally we made it to St. Louis and across the Mississippi River into Illinois.

We made it!  The kids were excited to see the big river. 

 

Right away the base had a house for us.  We looked at a lot of other houses over the next few days but ended up taking the base house.  We've never lived on base before, so I hope I'm not sorry, but we decided this was the best option, especially considering the schools.  So we'll live on base and the kids will go to a good school nearby (not a DoDs school).  I hope it all works out.  It's smaller than our Colorado house so we might have to downsize a bit.

 

The kids were also excited about fireflies and we spent many of our first nights out chasing them.  I tried to take pictures, but its kind of hard.  Here are the kids running around.

And I actually got one in this shot, mid-right.  Pretty exciting!

The kids got to be pretty good at catching them...and then releasing them later.

So, we made it.  Now to get moved in!