The move and drive...

So much has happened since my last post, and it hasn't even been that long!  This post might be a little long, so I'll say I'm sorry now.  :)


The first thing we had to do was fix up all the last minute things to our house.  There was nothing major to do, but all the little things sure added up.  We had to have most all of the things finished by that Wednesday night, because the packers were coming Thursday morning and would be packing up everything including Cody's tools.  We finally had to call on my dad's help for a few things, just because we were running out of time.  That helped a lot.  So we stayed up until about 1:30am on Wednesday to try and get everything finished, and woke up at 6:00am on Thursday to get showered and finish packing up the things that wouldn't be going to storage.  The packers were there at 7:45am ready to go.  After working so hard the last three days, it was kind of a struggle for both Cody and I to have to just sit back and relax.  As we watched them pack up all our stuff, we both realized, hiring packers is totally the way to go.  They pack things so well, and you don't have to do anything, in fact, I was able to finish reading my book.  Here are some pictures of our house filled with boxes.

Our bedroom and clothes all packed up.

Our living room and couch.

Our kitchen.

Our downstairs family room.

Cody's office.

They did leave our bed so we had somewhere to sleep that night, which we did, falling asleep at 9:30pm.  We were exhausted, incredibly for not doing much that day.  On Friday morning, the movers showed up bright and early.

Here is the truck that would be hauling our stuff.

Yeah, that's pretty big. 

Vega and I just hanging out while the movers take our stuff.

Vega and me taking a nap.  Watching people move our stuff sure makes us tired.

Our empty house. (Vega's tail got in the picture in the bottom)

The empty downstairs.

We still had a few things to do around the house, so we stayed at Cody's sisters house Friday night.  It was so nice to just hang out and do nothing.  Her guest bed was either very nice or we were just so tired, but I don't think either of us even moved all night.  We were out as soon as our head hit the pillow.

Here is Cody and Anna sleeping on the recliner at Jami's house.  Of course she is holding tightly to her horse.

After finishing things up that Saturday, we left our house.  It was a very weird feeling knowing that this was that last time we would be leaving the neighborhood that we had lived in for the last four years, but we were also so happy and excited.  We then spent the next few days with our family and friends in Logan.  Of course we went skiing at The Beav, and tried to hit up all the favorite food places in Logan, such as The Italian Place, Fredrico's, Wok on Wheels, and of course Mike John's ribs.  Okay, that isn't a restaurant, but my father-in-laws ribs are so yummy!

After a few days of relaxing and fun, we got all packed up for our long drive to Seattle.  We got up early Wednesday morning to say our goodbyes.  There were a lot of tears with both families, but we know they were all still very excited for us.  Then we hit the road.  We drove to Pendleton, OR, which was about an eight hour drive from Logan.  We stopped a few times to let the dog out and take her for some short little walks.  

Here is Vega sleeping in the cramped car.  She seemed pretty comfy though.

By the time we were in Pendleton, Vega was so ready to be done with the car.  We were kind of worried on how she would do in the hotel, but she loved the king sized bed.  She got right on and curled up to go to sleep.  Driving must have made her tired too, because we had a hard time getting her to move in the morning.

We had only four more hours left before we made it to Seattle.  So we got in the car once more and began our drive.  Finally, after weeks of preparing, and days of driving, we had made it!  We found our temp housing which was in the middle of downtown Seattle (and kinda some scary driving and a lot of one way roads) and brought our stuff in.  We are so excited to start our new adventure.  

As this post is already long enough, I will post our Seattle pictures on the next blog post.  Again, sorry this is so long, but it is so worth it.  :)