Heading South

Our move to the great state of Arizona is in full swing. The last day or so has been an emotional roller coaster but in the end we have been incredibly blessed. Yesterday we sold our house! Yep, sold. Finished. The end. The new owners are a sweet little family with three kids and seem to be very nice. They just seemed to be the perfect fit for our home too. It made it a bit easier leaving when I knew who would be calling 4435 Deer Ave home soon. I hope everyone welcomes them with open arms and treats them as great as we were treated. The timing couldn't have been better. We signed the contract hours before we were suppose to be cleaning out the fridge to load on the moving truck. Thank goodness they also wanted the fridge!

Today we spent cleaning the house and loading the cars with all the little stuff the movers couldn't take. It was a bigger job than I thought it would be! My car decided to act up right before we got to our house from the hotel today so I spent an hour in Les Schwabb waiting to get the tires rotated and balanced again and ready for the trip. While I was there, my phone rang with some guys wanting to buy Gary's boat. If they would have called a couple hours later, it would have been headed down the road with no way to contact Gary - he had to turn his cell phone in to the office today. They liked it enough to buy it and one more worry drove away.

It was really hard to say goodbye to Marge. For those of you who don't know, she is my next door neighbor that I absolutely LOVE! She is in her late 80s and has been wonderful to my boys. They all love her dearly and I'm not sure what I'll do without her. She has been like my own Grandma at times with an open heart and listening ear. Never judging, just supporting and complimenting. Boy, I will miss her! After saying goodbye to her, I couldn't take it anymore and knew I wouldn't hold it together well enough to drive to get my other boys in Preston if I stopped in anywhere else to say goodbye so, sorry everyone! I will miss you all but I hope to keep in touch through blogging if nothing else.

Tonight we are in American Fork with my Mom and the boys will get to spend a couple nights here before we head south on Sunday. They are all exhausted from a week at cousins camp. From the sounds of it, I should have gone to cousins camp. Man, I didn't know you could do so many fun things with 30 - yes I said 30 - kids from 3 to 12! They had a blast! Thank you Sunnie, Missy, and Melanie!

I'll try to keep you all updated on our journey but Internet access is hard to come by I hear. This is quite the adventure we are embarking on though. Did I mention I passed our moving truck on the side of the road with it's hood up this afternoon? Not too confident any more on the Tuesday unload date. he he he he