We made it!!

Well, we are here and it has been crazy. Traveling for 30 hours with 2 dogs and 3 little girls is quite the adventure. Thankfully my Dad came to help.

We left Mo. around 10am Monday morning, a couple hours behind schedule, but we made it. We had to get a U-haul trailer to pull on Sunday because we were noticing the truck was losing space quickly and we have a lot of stuff.

We stopped at a hotel around 12:30am. Since we got there so late and my Dad talked to the lady she brought the rooms down $20 a piece and got us suites right next to each other at the regular room price. We were debating what to do with the dogs. Jeremy decided to inform the hotel manager which he was nervous about.

So I went to the front desk and told her we have 2 dogs in the van. She interrupted me immediately and said with enthusiasm, "Bring them in." I couldn't believe it. We brought the dogs to our room and got them settled. After we all got baths and showers and were ready for bed around 1:30 we realized we had hit the time change. Yikes!! it 2:30am!!! We planned to get up around 7am. That's not much sleep.

We got up at 7am had breakfast and headed out at 9am. The last 3 hours of the trip were the worst because everyone was tired, and antsy (if that's a word). The last hour I finally got to drive because my Dad was just wiped and I kept talking to Jeremy over the walkie talkie's to keep him awake. He kept saying he was fine, but I didn't believe him. Finally we made it at12:30am at my Parents house. My mom was up waiting for her grand baby's!! Jeremy had to stay up for another couple hours filling out paperwork for work the next day. He got 3 hours of sleep that night.

Things are calming down and we are getting some what of a routine. I have finally got all the clothes organized. I'm going out tonight to get some baskets for organizing clothes in a closet. My mom will be happy to come home tonight and see her clean living room again. Jeremy is doing well at his new job. He is still in training, but he likes it and it is going well.

We will be voted into membership this coming Sunday.

We miss friends in Mo, but are adjusting well here. I'm sorry I can't put up pictures, but we don't have our computer set up and it has all my pictures. I wish I had time to put them all on disks before we left.

If you could remember the girls in prayer it would be appreciated. Hope came down with Whooping cough back in Mo, but we didn't know till we got here. Now Hallie has a cough too. They are both seeing a Dr. tomorrow. Hope was in the ER on Wednesday. She is doing better.

God bless,

Ellen