New Hampshire Bound!!!

The first time we moved across country, we were a family of 4...barely  Andie was 20 months and Ali was just 4 months.  This was about 5 weeks after we got to Athens.  They were so little  :) 
Now we are a solid family of six - and boy of boy, we sure do have a lot of crap stuff!  So, here we are again, at another exciting cross-roads in our life. We are moving from Georgia to New Hampshire! Crazy! Click on this link to see 5 years ago, when we were moving from Utah to Georgia! (One thing that made me laugh is remembering that I used to think Utah was so green! haha)  I sure was glad that we had a extra bedroom downstairs to pile our our moving boxes in.

Once again we were so grateful for all of the people who came and helped us move.  It only took about an hour or so to load the truck.  Most of that was organizing and tying boxes off before we could move on.  The above pictures it just with the missionaries.  But we had tremendous support from the ward. 

Here is our cute little family and our "love fern" ready to make the move to New Hampshire.  We were given this plant when Caleb was born and it has died many times, but keeps hanging on.  She survived the move just fine and is still with us.  Poor neglected plant (I should go water it!)

Andie and Ali on the morning the van was driving away.  We were really lucky that Shawn's parents were willing to help Shawn with the drive up to New Hampshire.  Come to later find out, he drove the whole way (oh well) - but they had a good time and enjoyed seeing the northern part of the country.  They took a day in Washington DC and were able to walk around and see several of the sites.  We're glad they enjoyed their trip.

The kids and I hung out back in Athens for an extra week because Shawn was graduating later in the week. 

We were so lucky to stay with our friends, the Palmer's and LeAnn helped me come and do the last of the cleaning to check out.  Good-bye 8A, you've been very good to us!

We had a wonderful week with the Palmer's, who ended up letting us stay with them the entire week.  (We were planning on just sleeping in our apartment, but they quickly persuaded us to come sleep on their beds and couches instead...we were spoiled.)  It was a fun week, just relaxing and having nothing to do.  We planned on Shawn driving the truck up early, so we could make a family vacation out of it.  What a great idea!  We sure miss Athens and all of our good friends, but it's so exciting to move forward on our journey!  Whatever and where ever that may be!  For now, the next step is New Hampshire....ready or not!

(We're going to freeze!)