Moving, moving, moving.......

This post is one of those that,

all along,

you think your documenting it great.

That is, until you take inventory of the pics you've taken

and realized what a slacker you were.

But under the circumstances,

I still give myself a nice big

gold star.

Toot-toot!

(that's me tooting my own horn)

I was single-parenting four lil Norts,

coordinating a move,

packing a family of 6,

and

preparing myself to trek 2,200 miles away!

Oh yea,

and making sure we had a home to go to

once we arrived in our new town.

Our adventure:

As the weeks wore on the boxes slowly filled the house.

It didn't help that I emptied our small storage unit

and brought it all home.

The kids thought it was great fun.

Momma,

not so much!

These are only a few of the pics.

Every room was packed!

Moving Day!

An army of angels came.

Maria, Raymond and Ethan.


Our 26-footer!
Filled to capacity!

George, Dixon, and new Elder I didn't know.

He was a great supervisor!

George and Virgil.

The loading was done.

Grandma's plane was delayed.

So we spent the night with the

Goldsteins and Herzogs.

Sunday morning bright and early we were on the road.

We logged 17 hours that day!

One. Seven.

That first day was chaotic at best.

Accidents,

freeway closures

detours,

too many stops,

crazy munchkins!

Once they finally

fell asleep

I just wanted to

drive.

So we did.

Until about midnight.

First stop,

one hour west of Nashville.

"Get me out of this car!!

I'm constipated and gassy!!!"

Something I didn't know,

but quickly found out on this trip,

babies need to

move around

to get their, um, stuff to 'move around'.

If they spend 3/4 of a day sitting,

no bueno!!

Logan,

ever the

stylish princess.

She was ready at every gas station!

Ryan just shakes her head!

Sometime on this trip I heard Logan referring to herself as

Pink-a-licous Princess Logi!!


Day #2

9 hours.

Roanoke, Virginia

There was no need to kill ourselves, right?

We turned in early and ordered a

pizza.

Then Grandma and I watched the finally of

'The Bachelor'.

Not a show I usually watch, but was sucked in this time

because he happened to be from

Austin.

Bubba taking a turn in the truck with Grandma!

That grin was there the entire time.

Lil guy was in heaven!!

He felt so cool.

A day on the road.

Look at those faces.



Bath time

was a nightly ritual.

And who can resist a tub full of

lil Norts??

They may hate me when they get older,

but I can't resist a

'bath-shot'!

Day #3

8 hours logged.

Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Yes, we stayed in Scranton.

Had I any more energy I would've gone searching for the

famous "Office" sign.

We found a hotel with a pool.
All their swimming suits were packed away,

so we made due!

There was snow outside.

In the hot tub!

Lil Nort stew!!

I can't get over how happy Fox looked!

He was out of his car seat,

all he cared about!

4th and final day

8 hours

Brunswick, Maine.

Chris met us at the house

and another

army of angels

arrived to help us unload the truck.

Heaven sent for sure.

In one short

week

our kids went from doing this.........

to this!!!

They didn't seem to mind.

We have this amazing playground right behind our house

and they wanted to spend all day everyday out there.

Snow Rookies!

They've only ever known California and Texas.

Ryan has pajama bottoms on

and Logan still insisted on wearing a

dress!

(just with pants underneath)

Her outfits were getting more and more

creavtive!

Not sure what she thought the

Home Depot

apron was going to do for her????

Or the dress up gloves?

So happy to be home!

They thought it was great fun to

stuff blankets in their shirts and

bump into each other!

Our only

casualty

of the trip.

Fox got a nice 'shiner' on the last day

playing at a McDonalds playplace.

We were literally 3 hours from arriving!

Here it is a few days old!

He thought it gave him

'street cred' !

The Nortons are a family again and it feels

great!

I'm so grateful my Mom made that trek with us.

What a trooper.

More pics will follow.

I know a lot of friends and family want to see pictures of the house.

I'll get on it.

Plus Bubba had a birthday!

Two days after we arrived!

Wahoo!

To be cont........