Bittersweet every time we move - excited for new adventures but sad to leave a place we made home.
Our last Sunday in the Maple Grove Ward. Love that ward.
Anna babysat for us all the time in Minnesota. She and a couple other girls (McCall, Gabby, Charlotte, and Abby) were amazing young women and our favorite sitters! Our kids lucked out with some great babysitters there.
As I posted about earlier, our primary chorister made treats for anyone that passed off their articles of faith - that included presidency members, hehe. I insisted he didn't need to make me any but showed up with these goodies on our last Sunday. What a nice guy Brother Van De Veer is.
As we were leaving on our last Sunday, we found this huge ugly cookie jar taped to our car. It was a white elephant gift from our going away party that nobody wanted! We kept passing it around. Had a blast with our Minnesota friends. Such a random but funny memory.
Fun play date at the gymnastics center.
When you're relocated for a corporate move, the actual moving part is pretty painless. They hire packers to come to your home and pack you up completely, in one day. The following day the movers come and load up the truck. Then they schedule your drop off and you're done! All we had to do was get rid of some things and organize our stuff before the packers came.
Here is the moving truck - showing up in the freezing weather.
While the packers came (I had to stay with them) and Mitch was at work, my friends watched my kids - they even took them all day out, to see Santa at that. What saints these ladies are.
After the movers came, some friends came over to help me clean. I'm so thankful for friends helping with this. Let me say it goes much faster when 4 people are cleaning versus just 1.
That night we stayed with the Allreds. Such fun memories for the kids.
Mitch's company offered to ship our cars out to Oregon and fly us there, but we wanted to stop in Utah for Christmas, so we decided to take the money for the mileage used and drive. Crazy ! We thought it would be terrible but thanks to some car activities, our DVD player, and some fun hotel stops, the kids actually had a good time! We kept the driving days short so we could stop at the hotel to swim in the early evening.
Flat, flat and more flat. Nebraska seemed to go on for days.
So thankful when we found a Qdoba in the middle of nowhere. Fresh veggies!
When we got to Wyoming, we started hearing about storms coming though the Rocky Mountains.
At first it seemed pretty clear, but by the time we got to the I-80 interchange, the freeway was CLOSED. The storm was coming in. We were so close to getting to Salt Lake and exhausted from being on the road. However we felt like it was a blessing that we didn't get stuck in the mountains during a storm.
Luckily we were some of the first cars that arrived at the closed freeway and quickly got a hotel room nearby. Within an hour or so all the rooms had booked up. Not sure what we would have done if we didn't get a hotel room with 3 kids! No way we could have slept in the car.
We arrived at Grandma + Grandpa's with a dirty car, but relieved to be in gorgeous Salt Lake.
Mitch's parents had Christmas all set up. Was so wonderful to arrive to this after a hectic week of getting everything ready to move. They did literally everything for Christmas and we didn't have to think about a thing. Thank you grandma + grandpa. Bless your hearts.
Our last Sunday in the Maple Grove Ward. Love that ward.
Anna babysat for us all the time in Minnesota. She and a couple other girls (McCall, Gabby, Charlotte, and Abby) were amazing young women and our favorite sitters! Our kids lucked out with some great babysitters there.
As I posted about earlier, our primary chorister made treats for anyone that passed off their articles of faith - that included presidency members, hehe. I insisted he didn't need to make me any but showed up with these goodies on our last Sunday. What a nice guy Brother Van De Veer is.
As we were leaving on our last Sunday, we found this huge ugly cookie jar taped to our car. It was a white elephant gift from our going away party that nobody wanted! We kept passing it around. Had a blast with our Minnesota friends. Such a random but funny memory.
Fun play date at the gymnastics center.
When you're relocated for a corporate move, the actual moving part is pretty painless. They hire packers to come to your home and pack you up completely, in one day. The following day the movers come and load up the truck. Then they schedule your drop off and you're done! All we had to do was get rid of some things and organize our stuff before the packers came.
Here is the moving truck - showing up in the freezing weather.
While the packers came (I had to stay with them) and Mitch was at work, my friends watched my kids - they even took them all day out, to see Santa at that. What saints these ladies are.
After the movers came, some friends came over to help me clean. I'm so thankful for friends helping with this. Let me say it goes much faster when 4 people are cleaning versus just 1.
That night we stayed with the Allreds. Such fun memories for the kids.
Mitch's company offered to ship our cars out to Oregon and fly us there, but we wanted to stop in Utah for Christmas, so we decided to take the money for the mileage used and drive. Crazy ! We thought it would be terrible but thanks to some car activities, our DVD player, and some fun hotel stops, the kids actually had a good time! We kept the driving days short so we could stop at the hotel to swim in the early evening.
Flat, flat and more flat. Nebraska seemed to go on for days.
So thankful when we found a Qdoba in the middle of nowhere. Fresh veggies!
When we got to Wyoming, we started hearing about storms coming though the Rocky Mountains.
At first it seemed pretty clear, but by the time we got to the I-80 interchange, the freeway was CLOSED. The storm was coming in. We were so close to getting to Salt Lake and exhausted from being on the road. However we felt like it was a blessing that we didn't get stuck in the mountains during a storm.
Luckily we were some of the first cars that arrived at the closed freeway and quickly got a hotel room nearby. Within an hour or so all the rooms had booked up. Not sure what we would have done if we didn't get a hotel room with 3 kids! No way we could have slept in the car.
We arrived at Grandma + Grandpa's with a dirty car, but relieved to be in gorgeous Salt Lake.
Mitch's parents had Christmas all set up. Was so wonderful to arrive to this after a hectic week of getting everything ready to move. They did literally everything for Christmas and we didn't have to think about a thing. Thank you grandma + grandpa. Bless your hearts.
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