moving out...

I'm not sure if I had ever mentioned on the blog that we decided to move. It has been a long couple of years for us. We have struggled with making a decision of what to do about John's job. He wasn't happy with the way things were working out at his firm - so we started looking. He interviewed in Phoenix, and Las Vegas, with nothing really working out. Most all of John's family live in Clovis, NM, and we always had the opportunity for him to work there (with his bro-in-law - an attorney as well). To be honest, we weren't really thrilled about the idea. It's a small town, and not really our idea of where we wanted to end up. We prayed about it, and knew that it was the right thing. (Even though I didn't want that to be the answer!)

We packed up the truck trailer on June 5th, Saturday. We had a lot of help from ward members, which was a great blessing. I somehow forgot to leave out tennis shoes for myself, so all I had were flip flops. Great for summer, not so great for carrying furniture. Our helpers will receive many blessings for carrying our heavy furniture (piano included) down our driveway and then climbing back up to get more. It went pretty smoothly.

The way the "trailer" works - you load it up, they pick it up, drive it for you, drop it off, you unload it, and then they pick it up again. So nice to not worry about having to drive a big Uhaul. However, it also meant that our stuff would not arrive at our new house until June 15th (which actually turned out to be a good thing). We decided to spend a couple days at home getting it cleaned and fixed up (since we are going to rent it out). So it meant sleeping on air mattresses, no tables/chairs/dishes. Just basically camping out in our house. It was a little rough on the kids, but we made it through. We ended up driving to New Mexico the following Tuesday, staying in Flagstaff, AZ overnight, and arriving in Clovis that Wednesday evening.

(Zane was sleeping in our room for a couple of nights, and we guess that Lily must have been looking for us in the middle of the night, and found Zane instead)