Thursday, October 18, 2012

We’re Alive!!! And we Moved!

Hello!  Where did the summer go? Sorry we’ve been gone for so long….

Remember how I said we were selling our house and moving to Nebraska?  Well, we did officially sell our house as of today-ish wahoooo! and we did move, but not to Nebraska.  We moved to Royal Oaks, California for a job that we’re excited about.  Omaha may very well also be in our future, but we’re happy to be back in Cali for now.  We live just a little under 3 hours from my parent’s casa.  Perfection! I haven’t lived less than a two day’s drive (and sometimes a two day flight from Brazil or China) from home since before I left for BYU.

Here’s a little recap of late:

  • Jordan started working at Classic Farms in Watsonville/Salinas area mid September.  He likes it and it comes with getting to live in a little house on a hill, which I like.  More on said little hill house later! Perks of being around his cousins are also a huge plus!
  • I went to Utah with the babycakes and my angel mother to pack up our house.
    • During that trip the following went down-
      • Both my car and my mom’s cars died.  Hers with transmission probs and mine with a mysterious battery issue that took way too many people to solve. 
      • We walked a lot of places, including to local stores to dumpster dive for boxes.  We walked home piled in boxes and looked like Hobos.
      • Had a hugely successful impromptu yard sale, ridding us of a lot of stuff I loved/semi-liked/didn’t need.  Remember my crazy couch? Gone!  My awesome convection oven and stove?  Bon Voyage! It’s amazing how I hang onto things with a death grip until someone gives me money for them.
      • I found sewage backed up in the beautiful new bathroom J put in the basement.  Perfect timing.
      • Spent most of my nights digging/cleaning poop out of said bathroom.
      • Funded the plumber’s holiday bonus by having them clear our sewage line all the way to the street.  The new owners shouldn’t have a problem until the millennium. 
      • Enjoyed a little bit of the garden we planted!
      • Said goodbye to a lot of dear friends…come visit us soon!
      • Jordan and his cousin Josh came and loaded up a moving truck and took all of our stuff back to CA.
      • Was surprised almost daily during the last week by sweet little notes and surprises from my Young Women from church.  I will miss those girlies so much!
      • Got a ticket my last night in town and threatened that my car could be impounded for expired tags.  I honestly had no idea and have barely driven the little car since we got our truck. I DON’T cry in front of cops..and I did.
      • Drove to St. George where I hit road block after road block to get the car re-registered/inspected and back to California…Columbus Day, really?  I just wanted to get the heck out of the state and felt like it had something against me!  So I ditched the car and flew home from there with the babycakes.
  • We moved our stuff into our new little house! Happy day!
  • I got to nest for two days…
  • …Then, two discs decided to completely go out in my back and I was down for the count.  After hardly being able to walk and not being able to pick up Amelia-Jayne at all, I went to the Doc and he’s fixing me all up.  Heavenly Father has funny ways of getting us to slow down when we won’t.

That’s where we are now!  I’m glad the last three weeks in particular are over and we are done with months of our limbo.  And now, thanks to Jordan’s help, my chiropractor and Nani and Papi taking the babycakes (again, soooo nice to be close to family) I am on the road back to a house of sanity!  And seeing that I’m pretty much useless doing anything else right now, I can finally update this thing. Thanks for bearing with me on this somewhat downer of a post…happier things to follow as well as pics when I can upload them!