Moving On

Wow! The month of January has been quite the busy month and its already gone. It's hard for me to believe it. A week or so before Christmas, Tyson was offered a buy-in opportunity at a dental practice that we had been eyeing in Grand Junction, CO. We were so excited and decided to take it.

So January was filled with 4 trips from Cedar City over to Grand Junction, and one to Denver, one trip for each weekend. It was exhausting, especially since we all were having some bad luck with being sick for several weeks. During the weekdays, it was all about packing. The kids were really good at dealing with me packing. I didn't get a whole lot of help from them. They just wanted to play in all the packing boxes before I filled them up. Collin had no idea what was going on, but Mackenzie really had it figured it. She repeatedly said she was moving to "Colorado Springs Grand Junction Colorado". I have no idea how she decided to put all that together, but it is very cute to ask her about it. Mackenzie dealt with the packing well. She understood that each day new toys come up missing and that they were in a box headed for Colorado. Luckily there was no fuss over it because she has been as excited as we have been to move to Colorado.

The actual move went very smooth, especially considering the extremely stressful move we had just done from Florida. The worst of it was the last day in Cedar City. It was a bit stressful with the kids having no furniture, no toys, no place to go since there was 12" of snow outside, and we still had a house to clean and a moving caravan to assemble. If it hadn't decided to snow so much, it would have been easier I think. Our last night in Cedar, we went to bed with it starting to snow, woke up to it still snowing, and by 7 pm (when we finally drove out of town), it was just stopping. Twelve inches in Cedar that day, and the rest of the state got only a few inches. Our luck, of course. We drove up the freeway at 40 and 50 mph with the 26' Uhaul towing the Camry, and I was driving the Pathfinder towing the 4-wheeler. It was quite the caravan!

So we made it and have been here a week. I love the house. It is a rental, but a very new and nice one. Tyson came over and picked it out one weekend that I was too sick to even hop in a car. We are still unpacking and trying to find things. Today I just found a suitcase full of clothes that has been missing from Day 1. There's not as much room or storage space in this house, so much of the dilemma is sorting through boxes to get what is necessary out and then rebox the rest up until the next move. There is still a lot of work to do to get settled, but we are just happy to be in a place that offers adventure, a good job, beautiful surroundings, and is still within driving distance to our families. It's a great place to call 'Home'. There'll be more to come from Grand Junction when we figure it out ourselves.

This is one of Collin's favorite toys, my strainer! He LOVES to wear it on his head and walk around. Usually he holds it over his face to cover it up and then walks into walls. It hilarious. Do you think I could keep that thing in a box?

Mackenzie really wanted to help Daddy pack the big truck. This was the best place to keep her out of the way.

Another part of the fun and excitement...the BIG truck. As Mackenzie calls it "Daddy's Big Truck". They ran up and down the ramp a good portion of the day.


The dreaded piano. Tyson would have loved to just roll this down the hill in Cedar to never see it again. Just a few more moves hopefully. :)

The actual moving day...SNOW and lots of it. This was at 10 am, but by late afternoon there was plenty more of it.

We made it!

Mackenzie's new found friend next to our house. He eats rocks too, just ask her.

Out of all the excitement in the move, this probably was tops for Mackenzie. We put the big ol' Britax in the Uhaul to let her ride back to the dealer to drop it off. She was so excited.