Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Our Move
This last week has been crazy but I have a moment to update so I guess I will.
We had hired a moving company to move us so we wouldn't have to drive a large moving truck this year like we did last year. We were really excited about this. We simply had to pack the truck when it arrived and then they would drive it to Utah. Well on Thursday last week we got a call from the company, our customer service rep told us that the truck that was in route to our house had major mechanical failure and was no longer going to arrive on Saturday and they couldn't tell us when a truck would be arriving. WHAT! grr We tried to work something out for 2 days but then on Friday we had to bag it and call Penske to reserve a truck for that day!
Thanks to my family we got the truck all packed pretty quick. My brothers did a great job moving stuff really fast. Dan's mom flew down on Friday night to drive back up with us so that Dan didn't have to be alone in the truck and so that she could help me with Ava in my car if I needed her to. I'm thankful for all of our family because we could not have done the move without them.
The drive was pretty bad. I'm thankful I never had to drive our moving truck but the first day we drove from Tempe, through Bullhead City and Vegas to St George. Boy it was a horribly long day. Took us 11 hours to get to St George. Ava screamed the last hour straight and there was no where to pull over. It was bad.
Finally on Sunday we got into Orem and got our keys. Once again family and Dan's amazing friends came over to unpack us on a record hot Utah day. It took about 2 days to get our main furniture set up but Tuesday night was our first night sleeping in our new place. Ava did wonderfully, Tiny didn't. We let him sleep in the living room and sadly enough that didn't work because too many windows equals one whiny dog. We moved his bed into the 3rd bedroom which will now be the Office/Tiny's room/Guest bedroom.
Last night everyone slept well. I was able to feed Ava at 5am, get her back to sleep, take Tiny out to go to the bathroom and back in without ever waking up Dan. This is always my goal. He doesn't mind helping but I'm stubborn and really like to do it myself and let him sleep. I never thought I would be a morning person but waking up at 5 is totally fine by me now.
Today we are going to get our new Utah licenses, title and registration. Too bad Utah is dumb and couldn't figure out how to make 1 DMV where you do all those things at... we have to go to 2 places.... ugh Utah.
We had hired a moving company to move us so we wouldn't have to drive a large moving truck this year like we did last year. We were really excited about this. We simply had to pack the truck when it arrived and then they would drive it to Utah. Well on Thursday last week we got a call from the company, our customer service rep told us that the truck that was in route to our house had major mechanical failure and was no longer going to arrive on Saturday and they couldn't tell us when a truck would be arriving. WHAT! grr We tried to work something out for 2 days but then on Friday we had to bag it and call Penske to reserve a truck for that day!
Thanks to my family we got the truck all packed pretty quick. My brothers did a great job moving stuff really fast. Dan's mom flew down on Friday night to drive back up with us so that Dan didn't have to be alone in the truck and so that she could help me with Ava in my car if I needed her to. I'm thankful for all of our family because we could not have done the move without them.
The drive was pretty bad. I'm thankful I never had to drive our moving truck but the first day we drove from Tempe, through Bullhead City and Vegas to St George. Boy it was a horribly long day. Took us 11 hours to get to St George. Ava screamed the last hour straight and there was no where to pull over. It was bad.
Finally on Sunday we got into Orem and got our keys. Once again family and Dan's amazing friends came over to unpack us on a record hot Utah day. It took about 2 days to get our main furniture set up but Tuesday night was our first night sleeping in our new place. Ava did wonderfully, Tiny didn't. We let him sleep in the living room and sadly enough that didn't work because too many windows equals one whiny dog. We moved his bed into the 3rd bedroom which will now be the Office/Tiny's room/Guest bedroom.
Last night everyone slept well. I was able to feed Ava at 5am, get her back to sleep, take Tiny out to go to the bathroom and back in without ever waking up Dan. This is always my goal. He doesn't mind helping but I'm stubborn and really like to do it myself and let him sleep. I never thought I would be a morning person but waking up at 5 is totally fine by me now.
Today we are going to get our new Utah licenses, title and registration. Too bad Utah is dumb and couldn't figure out how to make 1 DMV where you do all those things at... we have to go to 2 places.... ugh Utah.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Sold the Honda
We decided a few weeks ago that we are going to sell both of our cars and become a 1 car family. We really didn't need two cars this year but there was no extra money to buy a car this last year. We figured we would now sell both the cars and once a good (newer) used car came along (bigger of course) we would buy it!
We didn't expect to sell the Honda this quick but my brother Brett's car started leaking gasoline and seeing as its from 1979 my parents decided it was finally done for. We have to get everything signed over pretty quick. I have no idea what we are supposed to do with the plates or the registration or anything. I think we know how to sign a title over but I guess we better figure out pretty quick what to do with the rest.
Now we are going to have to squish into the Focus to drive up to Vegas and then up to Orem. Oh well we will just make it work. This move is just happening so fast, its driving me nuts. Its hard to sleep at night trying to plan everything out! blah.
Oh and if anyone has any good recommendations for cars that fit these qualifications, let me know:
1) good in snow
2) 4 doors
3) bigger than a hatchback ford focus
4) decent enough gas mileage
:) I actually wish Dan would let me get a minivan but I think thats a big fat NO
We didn't expect to sell the Honda this quick but my brother Brett's car started leaking gasoline and seeing as its from 1979 my parents decided it was finally done for. We have to get everything signed over pretty quick. I have no idea what we are supposed to do with the plates or the registration or anything. I think we know how to sign a title over but I guess we better figure out pretty quick what to do with the rest.
Now we are going to have to squish into the Focus to drive up to Vegas and then up to Orem. Oh well we will just make it work. This move is just happening so fast, its driving me nuts. Its hard to sleep at night trying to plan everything out! blah.
Oh and if anyone has any good recommendations for cars that fit these qualifications, let me know:
1) good in snow
2) 4 doors
3) bigger than a hatchback ford focus
4) decent enough gas mileage
:) I actually wish Dan would let me get a minivan but I think thats a big fat NO
Monday, July 19, 2010
4 Month Dr Appointment
Ava had her 4 month appointment today! I tried weighing her last week on the 15th and she was 16.12 pounds on her actual 4 month day. Today she was 17 pounds even, 27 inches with a 17 inch head! She is so big! I can't believe she weighs 10 pounds more than she did when we brought her home from the hospital! She is in the 97th percentile for weight, 99th for height and 93rd for her head. 
We are trying to finish up everything for our move. I can't believe how quick this move is. It is going to be really good for us to move into a 3 bedroom place of our own but still very hard to be away from my family!
Monday, July 12, 2010
We are Moving
Hopefully this is our view from our bedroom (if we get the condo)We are moving back to Utah. I realized today I have moved every single summer for 7 years now... one summer I even moved 2x... I HATE moving.
Our "vacation" to Utah was supposed to be a vacation. Literally a few days before we were going to leave, these 2 interviews fell into Dan's lap out of no where. He did both of the interviews and by Friday he had 2 job offers. He accepted the offer of the job he liked more and that happened to be in Lindon, Utah.
We went searching for a condo with our 1 day left in Utah.. we found something that was small but we could have made it work. We thought my mom's car was going to break down so we stayed 1 more day. Car was fine but I am sure glad we stayed. We found a condo 1/2 a mile from the new job that only cost 25$ more than the much much smaller condo that was 2 miles down the road.
So it looks like in 2 weeks we will be back on the road to Utah. We are not driving a moving truck this time. We are hiring a company to move our stuff. Should be a little less stressful. We are praying that everything goes through okay with this move. We are also praying that we are able to sign the lease to this condo this week.
I will miss AZ sooo much. I have cried buckets of tears and keep trying to look at all the good things, but its still hard. It's really really hard to go back to live in a place that made me miserable every winter and that was so far from my family.
Hopefully being a stay at home mom will be a lot easier (on my anxiety) than being a working busy student (when it comes to having to go out in the snow).
Friday, July 9, 2010
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