Moving Day(s).....

Well I know it's been 2 weeks since we pulled up ship and hit the road.... so here's some stories and pictures for ya'll to enjoy of our moving adventure! So we FINALLLY got the moving truck on Friday afternoon after a long day of saying goodbye to all my friends at work and we had a bunch of friends lined up to come help us pack up.... boy did we have a lot of work ahead of us....

Yes this little girl has WAAAYYY too much stuff!!! She had to help bring down all the "Emma size" boxes for her Papa to stuff up top!

Josh why are you just standing there looking at all the work..... get it done Mr!!!! I think maybe you should look to your older brother for help in how to unload a house.....

But as we know everyone did a great job.... from unloading boxes from the house to taking apart way to complicated desks to cookin a mighty good potluck dinner......

hey look... even Josh is working hard!! And my dad was once again crowned the master of moving truck loaders!! He did a better job than I could ever even THINK about doing to get all that "crap" into one little truck!!

But clearly he couldn't have done it without all of our expert "no... no... I think it should go that way" from Susan and I.... (Dean are you trying to fly off the ramp or what??)

Is this FINALLLY everything???? I dont think we even have room for this rope to tie it all in!!!! No.... No.... WAAAAIIITTTTT....

THERE'S OOONNNEEEE LAST THING..... you just can't forget your wedding pictures!!!

But.... But.... what about my kitchen??? What do you mean there's not enough room... how will i EVER become the next Rachel Ray????

"I told ya'll it would fit!!!"

And after a few tearful goodbyes...... Cuddlin on her boyfriend (Mr. Greg)....

she's off to show her monkey bar skills....... on Papa's truck bars!!

Yeahhhhhhhh we did it!!!

Hurry Josh close this thing before it all falls out!!!! haha

and it's bath time for this stinky dog before he gets in that big yellow truck with us!

Saturday morning.... Emma's trying to be sad that her mommy and daddy are hittin the road and she doesnt get to tag along.....

And there it is...... loaded.... ready to hit the road.....

And.... we're off!!!! Gooooodddddbyyyeeee WA here we come TN.....

On the road again..... Just cant wait to get on the road again.... (Thanks Raquel for the entertaining singing coffee mug!!) So Josh started out driving across the great state of WA...

And Mr. Tulli dog... well... he didn't seem to mind too much as long as the AC was hittin the floor life was grand in doggie world!

but it wasn't long before we spotted someone on the road that we knew..... we couldnt even make it to Ellensburg before they caught up with us!!! Mom, Dad and Emma headed off to Leavenworth to go camping with some friends so that Emma wouldnt be quite so upset about us being gone.

But at one of our first truck stops along the way Tulli said FORGET THIS I'M DRIVIN!!! haha!! But such a little puppy just couldnt handle this big ol' truck........ so we let Josh drive on ward!

So after a LOONNNGGG first day through Washington..... we find ourselves in Idaho...... nice place, but it was getting dark..... so it was my turn to drive and Josh's turn to sleep...... well atleast that was the plan he drives I sleep, I drive and he sleeps.... yeah except the first whole day I didnt sleep much but I did a pretty darn good job drivin most of the night!

So it's now Sunday in Montana...... nice place....... here are some pictures of what we saw......

okay that's enough...... pretty much the sum of Montana in one picture........

so on we drove........ and all of a sudden.... out of the middle of no where there was a bathroom..... yes a bathroom..... just goin down the road.....

so maybe by this time it was sleep deporvation......or maybe it was just one of the funniest things we'd seen in our whole trip!!! but we rolled with laughter for a good while seein the oversized load bathroom out in the middle of no where!!

so enough about Montana.... it's off to Wyoming..... We weren't there for long before we saw the deer and the buffalo roam..... haha... but we weren't there but just a couple of day light hours.... so it was Josh's turn to drive again.... and soon I learned what "RAIN" is..... b/c if you're from WA like me "the rainy state"just a clue into the real world....... it does NOT rain in Washington....... now in the mid-west..... this is what you call RAIN!!!

Okay I know this isn't a wonderful picture but this was our 2nd funny thing we saw on our drive.... so this is why we think they made it law that truckers have to stop every like 8 hours....

so this guy is up on all of his side wheels on one of those concrete barriers in the middle of a packed out rest area...... please note the "Do Not Enter" sign at the back corner of his truck..... hum... yeah dont think he needs to be on the road!!!!

So..... as you can see South Dakota was about the same as the last 3 states.... farm land.... and nothing REALLLLY exciting........ I think I slept most of this state anyways!! heehee!

OHHHH WAIT..... (sorry very blurry picture but Josh wouldn't stop b/c he thought I was crazy for wanting to see this place)..... SD does have the Corn Palace...... This building is completely covered w/ corn.... they make huge pictures and stuff and it's really cool... if you want better look go to http://www.cornpalace.org/ anyways there is a show about it on the discovery channel that I watched like 2 or 3 months ago.... then driving down the freeway saw the signs and I said "OH JOOOSSSHHH that place looked REALLY cool" but yeah he wasnt impressed...... so on we drove!! haha!

So on to a night in Iowa...... hum..... I was driving..... but I think I was on my 3rd energy drink by now and was still trying to stay awake!!

So on to Missouri....... and I think this is about where we both looked at each other and said.....sorry I cant drive anymore.... and pulled over for 1 1/2 nap.... and on we go again!

too bad it was kinda a crummy day or I would have taken Josh up into the arch.... It's pretty cool! Nothing like the Space Needle either! but on we drove...

Illinois was next just on the other side of this bridge but we must have not gone into the state on a main throughway because there was no sign "Welcome to the wonderful state of Illinois".... oh well!

OH MY OH MY WE'RE ALMOST THERE...... okay well like 5 more hours... but almost!! yippy!

JOSSSSSHHHHH WEEEE AARREEE HEEEEERRREEE!!! hip hip haaaarrrrayyy!!!!

so.... this is it... home sweet home....for now at least! This is the condo we are renting while we slowly but surely plug along on the base housing waiting list!!