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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
And We're off to California
1:15pm - Just left. Sitting in traffic on the 495 and trying to get to the open road. This picture was a couple minutes ago on the George Washington Parkway (Turn your head to see). See you soon! 5pm - 7pm - I got a very bad sleep. Not sure about this sleeping in the car. The Nyquil helped.
7:30pm -Just got to Ohio. We had a little sliver of West Virginia and went right below Pittsburgh. Snowing since about 7pm.
1:19am - In Putnam County, Indiana. The area where our ancestors lived. 2 1/2 hours out of St. Louis.
4:00am - The gateway to the west was welcoming. We will be headed down through Oklahoma City now and sleeping in Albuquerque tonight. Last twelve hours on Sunday. The big question - Will Gardunos be open when we get to Albuquerque?
Little Update
Grandpa made it to DC. Robert stayed at his hotel last night and will again tonight because we have no beds left in the house...well, nothing left in the house. Robert does the final walk through at our Fairfax place tonight and hands over the keys. It's kind of sad. We have had many happy memories there over the past two years. Grandpa and Robert will leave on their cross-country trip tomorrow when Robert gets off work. They will try to get in 12hrs. driving days. Please pray for them that they'll be safe on their journey. It's a long way and it worries me.
We signed the house lease this morning, so sidebar lady can officially change our address. The kids are excited that the house is so big, and can't wait for a backyard! I may be down in Oceanside tomorrow to give the guy our deposit and get the registration papers for Bruce and Linda. I'll probably hang out in the desert until Robert gets back. That's the latest.
We signed the house lease this morning, so sidebar lady can officially change our address. The kids are excited that the house is so big, and can't wait for a backyard! I may be down in Oceanside tomorrow to give the guy our deposit and get the registration papers for Bruce and Linda. I'll probably hang out in the desert until Robert gets back. That's the latest.
2 days and counting...
Bruce -
"Mom, a lot of things are changing since we're moving. Like, we eat dinner on the floor, we have beds that are just mattresses on the floor, and we have A LOT of trash."
Yes, our house decor consists of mattresses on the floor and a small tv in Bruce's room on the floor that will be officially be turned off tomorrow. Nearly all the clothes are packed in suitcases.
The owner has had a lot of people schedule showings of the house. We had two today. That's been stressful and I'm glad I only have to deal with it for two more days. We sold some stuff on Craigslist then put everything else up for FREE and had a great response. We only have a few small things to get rid of. The piece of furniture I find myself missing the most is a table and chairs.
We fly out of VA around 7am(4am for you guys). We got Claire a ticket and her carseat is airline approved, so she'll be in her carseat for the majority of the flight and I'm hoping she'll sleep since we'll be getting her up early. We were able to pick seats so we have the entire row on both sides of the aisle.
We should arrive in Fallbrook around 1pm, I think. We'll leave the kids in Fallbrook and Robert and I will head out to look at homes in Oside. We have 4appointments set up. Robert flies out the next morning. The kids and I will probably spend a lot of the week in Palm Desert at my moms house. She was recently laid off at her work, along with a lot of the other employees, so I'm going to take advantage of getting to spend time with her. I'll be back to Oside to look at homes if the ones we look at on Saturday don't work out. I'm not sure what my schedule will be, just playing it by ear.
Just thought I'd give you the update.
"Mom, a lot of things are changing since we're moving. Like, we eat dinner on the floor, we have beds that are just mattresses on the floor, and we have A LOT of trash."
Yes, our house decor consists of mattresses on the floor and a small tv in Bruce's room on the floor that will be officially be turned off tomorrow. Nearly all the clothes are packed in suitcases.
The owner has had a lot of people schedule showings of the house. We had two today. That's been stressful and I'm glad I only have to deal with it for two more days. We sold some stuff on Craigslist then put everything else up for FREE and had a great response. We only have a few small things to get rid of. The piece of furniture I find myself missing the most is a table and chairs.
We fly out of VA around 7am(4am for you guys). We got Claire a ticket and her carseat is airline approved, so she'll be in her carseat for the majority of the flight and I'm hoping she'll sleep since we'll be getting her up early. We were able to pick seats so we have the entire row on both sides of the aisle.
We should arrive in Fallbrook around 1pm, I think. We'll leave the kids in Fallbrook and Robert and I will head out to look at homes in Oside. We have 4appointments set up. Robert flies out the next morning. The kids and I will probably spend a lot of the week in Palm Desert at my moms house. She was recently laid off at her work, along with a lot of the other employees, so I'm going to take advantage of getting to spend time with her. I'll be back to Oside to look at homes if the ones we look at on Saturday don't work out. I'm not sure what my schedule will be, just playing it by ear.
Just thought I'd give you the update.
Last Family Pictures in DC
The primary sponsored a Family Temple Day a couple weeks ago. A photographer in our ward took everyone's family pictures for free. the kids were freezing, and you can see it in their faces.PS - Robert has lost 12lbs. since this pic.
Not offended => Proud
I won best chili and fatest man awards this year for the Fairfax Ward. So the award for fatest man was more subtle...I was asked to be Santa for the ward Christmas Party tonight. I will ask KaDee if she has any ideas on how to get my eyebrows white. Or cheeks red. I have been practicing my lines in my head (so not to let the kids hear me). Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas, toodles and strumbles for all the good boys and girls, ho, ho, ho. Oh man, this may be a disaster. okay Robert, just don't say anything, just sit there and look fat.
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