Moving Day

Moving Day was very different for us. We have never had movers or packers before and it was wonderful and weird all at the same time.
Wednesday night was the last "normal" day for us. Lots of people stopped by that night to say goodbye and I'm so glad. We visited with Roy and Phyllis and made sure everything was in order to get packed. There were things that we couldn't take so we had people stop by and pick things up. We also had to make sure everything was grouped together so that when we unpacked, we could find things  little easier.
Thursday, the packers came. They came and went in just under 2 hours. They actually laughed when they saw the amount of stuff we had. " This is it!"  The girls were at Joy's house and Ethan was wrapping up some work stuff. They packed 72 boxes. The packers weren't coming until the next day so as soon as we were ready, we drove up to Kay's to be with her for the evening. We took the girls to Churn and left them with Kay so that we could do the packing without them around. That night we stayed in the hotel across the street since our bed was in a box and saw the movie Magnificent 7 (not great but it was a fun date!)

In the morning we said a few more goodbyes and the movers were here bright and early. The truck sounded like a tank coming down the street. It was HUGE!!! It was so nice having packers and movers but it was so weird. I felt so lazy just sitting there while they worked their butt off. They were all super nice about it, but it was a weird feeling. What I loved though, was as they loaded things we were able to follow them around and clean. when they finished with the boxes, the house was cleaned and ready to hand off the keys. We were the first house on the truck so it was empty when it pulled up. It looked so funny seeing our boxes and all that truck space. It took them until about 3 and then it was time to lock the door and say goodbye. I love Avondale and still miss it a ton. It was hard to drive away.
We drove to Kay's house, grabbed the girls, said another hard goodbye, and headed to Utah. Kay was so sweet and put together care packages for both girls. There was a new gift for every leg of our trip. We sure are going to miss her.
Amazon paid for hotels and food along the way so we really took our time. Our goal was St. George. We drove until Vegas (with a failed stop at the Hoover Dam), ate at Olive Garden, put the girls in their jammies and drove the final 2 hours to St. George.

St. George was very uneventful but my favorite memory was when Kelsey stepped out in the morning, she gave her self a big hug and went. "AH! Its so burr here!!"
We looked VERY out of place the further north we drove. We had shorts and flip flops almost the whole way



















After a delicious meal at Cracker Barrel, we started out leg up to Bountiful. We had Blue skies most of the way, but once we hit Utah County we ran into cold rain and gray.

We hadn't seen the Provo City Temple yet, so while the girls were asleep we made  a quick stop. Due to conference the temple was closed so we couldn't get in the gates but it was still beautiful. We feel such a connection to that temple. Thats where we decided to get married, where we had Stake Conference, and so many other great memories. Its crazy to think its now a temple, but the Lord works in mysterious way. Oh and yes, we were FREEZING!! Utah decided to get super cold the weekend we were in town. Obviously we showed up in shorts and flip flops and had to quickly run to the store to get other stuff. Its not that we don't own other stuff, its just that the day we left it was still close to 100.

We had a great weekend in Salt Lake. I went to Stake Conference with my sisters, Ethan saw some friends, and we had a big Wing dinner on Sunday. We weren't there very long because we were anxious to keep going, but the time we did spend was quality.