Days Three and Four and Five - A Little Late

Day Three saw us starting out from about half way through Arkansas.  I was a woman possessed by the need to get across the country! We set an alarm for 2:30am and were in the car and on the go by 3:00am.  The kids slept nicely until 7:30! 

We pushed through Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and almost all of New Mexico by 8:00pm that evening.

Jake and Lily were a little annoyed with me. ;)  So instead of making them do another day like Day Three, which would have gotten us to my parents on Friday, I called my Aunt and Uncle who live just a little over the halfway (of what was left) mark to see what they were doing Friday night.

Turns out they were home and happy to have us. AND helped us celebrate The Dave's birthday! Since they are the parents of David's Godmother, who I am pretty sure was happy to see him.

(Oh and Mia and Lily got to play too! Hi Mia!)

Okay so back to my story. Day Four was about nine hours in the car, the last few miles of New Mexico, all of Arizona (Wrong interstate, sorry Kate and the Cooks!) and into Cali!

Heeeellllloooooo Cali!

We had a little party for David and hit the sack.

Day Five we took our time getting started, with just another six hours to get us to good ol' Herald, CA. 

And it's nice to not be in the car today!

Happy Birthday David

My boy is One. Already!

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Day Two

So we got as far as Knoxville, Tennessee yesterday where we spent the night at a friend's place.

We hit the road again this morning just after eight. Lots of stops for food and potty breaks and eleven hours later we were about 525miles along in Little Rock, Arkansas.

We've decided to stop to bathe the kids and sleep a bit. We'll see what tomorrow brings....

Day One

Jacob finished his close out paperwork today, got his Officer Evaluation Report completed and signed out on leave.

Lily had her last day at preschool and a St Valentine's Day part too! There were a couple of tears as we picked her up, sweet girl.

Now we have been in the car seven hours. I took my turn first, and since driving in the dark is not my favorite, Jacob took over an hour ago.

So far the kids aren't screaming... but it is, after all, only day one. ;)


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Making Due

This afternoon I sat in the van outside the tax center waiting for Jake. Our house might not have a tv but our van plays DVDs. Lol!







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Empty House

Movers came an hour late today. But they came nonetheless.

Lily had a ROUGH day! I guess when you're almost three and all your stuff is in boxes being taken away it's traumatic.

She did manage to fall asleep in the hole under the stairs though.
While the movers brought all the boxes down them, if you can believe it!



Jake was gone most of the day, getting a jump in so he can stay on jump status.

And now we wait to get out of here. Living in a mostly empty house, sleeping on an air mattress, lol.

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Boxes

Lily keeps rediscovering that all our stuff is in boxes today.

First she asked to watch TV. And hen saw it wasn't there.

Then she went looking for the full length mirror.

Most recently she tried out the utensil drawer. "Mama! Where's the forks!?"


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