The Jensen Family's Little Viking Tales: The Move (in June)

If the move had been up to me, I'd still be in Las Vegas packing boxes. Fortunately, Sean is ambitious and gets things done! We also had lots of help from some great friends. Some of them watched the kids so we could get stuff done, and others helped pack up the house. I usually stood around wondering what to do, or where to start, but somehow it all got done. We had planned to leave late morning or early afternoon on Saturday, the 15th of June, but we didn't get out of there until late Sunday night the 16th. What a fun way for Sean to celebrate Fathers' Day... loading a moving truck and cleaning the house! Our friends, the Reeses, came over Sunday evening and brought us some dinner and helped us get the last minute stuff done. We wanted to do more as far as cleaning the house, but felt we did a pretty good job, considering we were still living in it until the time of the move! It was around 11 pm by the time we got out of there. We thought about dragging out the air mattresses to stay one more night in the house, but didn't want to pull stuff out of the trucks or have the kids get things dirty again after we had cleaned, so we just hit the road. Sean drove the large U-HAUL and towed the minivan. Soren and Gabe rode with him. Brooke and I followed along in the smaller U-HAUL. We had a little trouble with the big truck on the way out of town which delayed us even more, so we only made it as far as Mesquite that night. Parking two big moving trucks - one with the minivan being towed behind it - was not easy to do in the little motel lot, but we did it and got in to sleep for a while. It wasn't the best night's sleep, but it felt good to just be off our feet for a few hours! Our feet and backs were killing us, and at the time, I didn't know I was pregnant, which is probably good or else Sean would have made me take it a lot easier and he would have had even more work to do.

The Relief Society helpers, Angie Tanner, Kim Reese, and Susan Hunt

Laurie Gledhill, Crystal and Mark Hutchison, and Gabe Gledhill

Ward friends, Chip Schwarze and Sven Peery

Super helper, Kim Reese!

Gledhill boys and a couple of their friends

Some last minute fun with the Reese kids while the trucks were being loaded

Soren let his "girlfriend" Ella drive!

Worn out!

The beds were packed, so we spent the last night in the home on air mattresses.

Two trucks and and trailer for the van

All our trash out on the curb the night we left

The last photo taken in our home on Voyager. Ready for a late night departure!

In the motel in Mesquite

Brooke enjoyed pulling out the tissue from the motel bathroom!

Monday morning we were finally on the road and we slowly headed up to Salt Lake. The boys enjoyed riding in the big truck, but the highlight of the trip for them was probably the stop in Scipio at the petting zoo. Unfortunately, it's closed on Mondays, but at least we could see the animals. The kids had a good time running around and stretching their legs a little. We finally arrived Monday night to my mom's open arms and home. She is such a good sport to take us in and let us live here. We spent the next few days deciding what would stay at Mom's and what would go to the storage unit. We ended up having to get two storage units. Why do we have so much stuff? Ugh! Anyway, a dear neighbor, Dean Larsen, helped us unload some of the stuff at the storage unit, but there was so much to sort through and arrange that we didn't want him to stand around wasting his time while we sorted, so mostly the job was up to Sean. He was worn out after those few days! What an exhausting move, but we've really been having a good time here. It's fun for my kids to get to know the area where I grew up, and to be in this great neighborhood and ward where we feel so appreciated.