The move back East

The story of our move will mostly be told in weird pictures.  It was a long move, delayed by snow a few times.  We stayed an extra day in Utah after Christmas because of snow and then we got stuck in Kansas during a snow storm too.  I can honestly say I don't want to drive cross country again.  We've done it 4 times now....that's enough. :)

I just have to record the funniest things from our trip.  Believe me, plenty of it was frustrating, but mostly I remember the funny stuff.  The top three funny things from our trip were...

1.   At the first hotel we stayed in Jeff went across the street to get some dinner.  He was trying to somewhat healthy food at McDonald's, (hard to do, I know).  He ordered chicken strips, salads, etc.  Anyway, when he got back and I started unpacking it I asked him, "Is this really what you ordered?"  He said "sure".  Then he looked at it.  We ended up with 10 cheeseburgers and one box of chicken nuggets.  We laughed so hard.  Who orders 10 cheeseburgers?  The McDonald's cheeseburger has to be the worst thing on their menu and we had 10 of them.  We did get the fruit salads that he ordered but everything else was wrong.  What a hilarious meal.  The weather was bad so we weren't sending him back to fix it.  Needless to say, I'm never eating a McD cheeseburger again.

2.  Jacob was riding in the moving truck with Jeff.  Now, I know he really should have been potty trained by this time, but he wasn't.  Give me a break, we were moving, new baby, etc.  Those are my excuses.  ;)   Anyway,  he ended up with a messy diaper in the moving van.  But this was when we were white knuckle driving in Kanses in the snow and we were trying to not crash and find a place to pull off and get a hotel so he ended up not getting a diaper change right away.  When we got to a hotel and pulled him out of the car....it was everywhere....and boy, did it smell bad.  We didn't want him to walk into the hotel like that and so we were stripping him down at the door of the moving truck.  But it was freezing outside and blowing snow everywhere so we had the heater blaring on him and he was being such a tough little guy while mom and dad were laughing and trying to clean him off.

3.  We were at a hotel on New Year's Eve and we were trying to find something for the kids to watch on TV.  But of course, there is nothing good on TV ever...another reason we don't have cable.  So we had stopped on some station having a telethon with some really old singers.  I thing Aaron Nevil was singing at the time.  The kids were not really watching, but Michael looks at the TV for a few minutes and then says, "Mom, this is so sweet.  Old people singing."  I just laughed so hard.  You had to hear him say it.

Here we got with the picture chronicle of our trip. I have to explain here. We love to take sleeping pictures. Jeff thinks it's funny to take pictures of us when we sleep, plus our kids are crazy sleepers so it's funny to see the positions they are in. So, most of our trip pictures are of us asleep in a hotel.

They got to watch a lot of Max and Ruby while we packed up the truck.
I guess Jacob was feeding the baby.

Loading the car onto the dolly...which by the way, the clutch went out on Jeff's car when we
got to NJ...totally wish we hadn't towed the car all the way across the country.

We got to see our friends the Reed's right before we left.  Such cuties!!

 

No joke - Michael is asleep here.  No where else to sleep...the house is empty.

These two were sleeping on a towel....so funny.

Kids sleeping all over the place in weird places.  At least Daniel got a bed.

First hotel.  We were still in Colorado actually.  This was Sunday.  Jeff has some real deep reading there...
haha, he was reading to the kids.

Daniel wanted to drive the car a little.

Serious...they are asleep like this.

Getting lunch at a Pizza Hut in Kansas.  The snow was so bad.  We stopped at a hotel not long after this
because I was too nervous to go any farther, plus they were closing the roads.

Jacob riding in the truck.

They weren't always this pleasant in the car, believe me. ;)

Bubble time.

Pretty normal sleeping

Not so normal sleeping

Anne riding with dad in the truck

The cool hotel in Ohio where we stayed on the 12th floor.  The center of the hotel was open to the
ground floor.  It was kind of creepy to look down.

We stopped and saw Karen, Rhett and kids for a few hours.  Our kids just
love them.

Kissing Daniel good night.

What a hilarious picture, but this is pretty much how we all felt by the time we woke up at the last hotel
in Pennsylvania on our last day of driving.

More hotel sleeping, but now we are finally in New Jersey

The end of the sleep pictures.  Seriously, that does not look comfortable at all...but he's asleep which
is all I cared about at this point.