Moving

I finished swim lessons Thursday June 18th at 2:30pm. Ryan flew in from Salt Lake at 11, picked up the Uhaul at 3pm and we were packing up all our stuff by 5pm! We originally planned on pulling a Uhaul trailer behind the Tahoe, but when Ryan went to pick it up, he knew all our stuff wouldn't fit in it, so plan B, we got a Uhaul truck. Unfortunately even the big truck wasn't big enough for all the stuff we wanted to bring. We got all the important stuff in, but we weren't able to get our bikes and bike trailer, our water cooler , the toy kitchen, rocking chair and 3 of the chairs for our kitchen table. I'm really missing the water cooler (although we really don't have room for it here) and the bike trailer. We were all packed up by about 8pm and handed our keys over to our friends Mike and Natalie Mason, who are living there while we're gone. We spent that night at Ryan's parents house. Ryan slept in until about 1oam ( he hadn't slept in over 30 hours) and we got on the road about noon. We decided to do the drive in 2 days- so it wasn't so bad that we didn't leave until noon. We separated the kids, one in the truck with Ryan and one in the Tahoe with me. This turned out to be the best thing for us. The kids didn't fight, I didn't have to worry about entertaining two kids all by myself, and they LOVED riding in the truck with Daddy. So we took turns, every time we stopped for gas, we switched.

Friday morning just before we left

Clark and Daddy in the Uhaul

Kate with her Tic Tacs she got in her travel kit from Nana


We stopped just passed the Utah border in Kanab and stayed the night there. I thought it would be bad having all of us in the same room, but the kids were so worn out- they fell right asleep. We left Kanab about 7:30am. At about 8:30am in the middle of no where Kate threw up everything she ate for breakfast! We pulled over on the side of the road and used almost a whole tub of wipes to get her and the car seat "clean". Luckily I had clean clothes accessible, but the car did stink for a while.

About 11am one of the tires on the Uhaul blew. We were on the I-15 coming through southern Utah, and there wasn't much around. I thought for sure we'd be stuck out there for a few hours waiting for a service truck to come and fix the wheel. But as you'll see the tender mercy's of the Lord were upon us. I had been prompted to turn off my cell phone and save the battery( Ryan's was already dead). That's tender mercy number one. So we had cell phone reception and battery enough to call Uhaul. Tender mercy number 2. Come to find out that there was a tire service station about 10 miles ahead that was a Uhaul dealer that could fix it. Tender mercy number 3. The tire that blew was a back tire, the truck was a dualie (had two back tires on both sides) so we were able to drive on the one good tire into the service station to get fixed. Tender mercy number 4. So what could've been a huge set back, was only about a half and hour delay.

We got to our house in Lehi about 2pm and started unpacking. We had a few neighbors come over and help us unload. We finished about 3pm, just before a huge storm hit. The temperature dropped to about 58 degrees. WELCOME TO UTAH!!!