Moving Day

It seems like we had been talking about moving day for months!  When we finally saw the moving truck headed down the road to our house it was totally surreal. Actually it made everything about this experience seem much more real.  To be honest, those two days were extremely hard.  Leaving my house and what had been home for 9 years was much more difficult that I thought it would be.  It was made easier by a constant stream of visitors.  I wish I had thought to take pictures with everyone who came to see us, but I probably would have been too emotional.  I miss Star Valley and I probably always will.  We had such good friends and neighbors there. 

 At about 11:00 in the morning on Wednesday August 7 this truck showed up.  Four men came in and started packing and within just a few hours my house really looked like we were moving.

 I joked a lot about the red carpet they laid down for me.  The movers must have known what a celebrity I am. (totally joking)

 By about 4:00 on the afternoon of August 8 the movers were all done!  We spent that night organizing our luggage and cleaning the house a bit.

 When we added on to our house I forced the kids in to putting a handprint in the concrete.  Too bad Briggy wasn't born yet.  Levi wasn't a big fan or it so his handprint is pretty messed up.  Millie was 5, Levi was about to turn 3, and Callie was almost 1.

We had our neighbor Mikala take this for us right before we drove off on Friday morning (August 9).  We had lots of neighbors stop by that morning to see us off.  At one point I just had to drive away and get it over with because the longer I put it off the more upset it was making me.

Lesson learned:  Sometimes even when you have the most exciting things in your future it is HARD and SCARY and EMOTIONAL to leave you current place.