Our Journey: From NV to AL

Ahhhh...we made it across the country and have now been official residents of Prattville, Alabama for 3 1/2 weeks! We are settled here and about to get into some sort of routine...I think. Cody starts his classes on Wed. and Jackson starts his on the 20th of August. Me, well, I haven't decided what I'll do this year, but we are now proud members of the YMCA so I have a strong feeling part of my time will be spent utilizing that membership! So, let's rewind........... Back at the beginning of June, we packed up and cleaned up and Cody had his last flight.

We took some time to have one last stay at Caesar's Palace down on the strip and stayed a few nights with some friends that will be dearly missed.

Then we hopped in an airplane and headed north for a week of beautifully cool weather to visit my parents in WA. We enjoyed being outside, walking on the beach and even stayed a night out at sea on their boat! It was the perfect vacation, full of relaxation and much-needed family time!

We then flew back to Vegas, stayed with our great friends for one night and headed out on our 6 day driving journey to Alabama! The nice thing about this journey is we broke it up tremendously. We were able to stop in Cleburne, TX for a week to celebrate Cody's birthday, the fourth of July and our nephew, Hudson's birthday and see Cody's parents and his brother and family! While we were there, we saw a rodeo, rode their tractor, Jackson spent lots of play time with his cousins, and for the Fourth/my nephew's birthday, we celebrated in style with a HUMONGOUS water slide that my brother-in-law and sister-in-law rented for my nephew's birthday!! It was a blast!!

After 7 days of fun, we continued on our journey but just a short jaunt on down to Houston to visit my sister and her family. Once again, fun with cousins and some catch up time with my sister, brother-in-law, niece (whom Cody met for the first time!) and nephew.

We finished our trip with one last night in Farmerville, LA to see Cody's Grandfather, who met Jackson for the first time! That was such a blessing to see him and spend some time with him. Then one last 7 hour day of driving to finish off our driving. We arrived at our new home in Prattville, Alabama on the evening of the 10th of July and the movers came with our household goods the morning of the 11th! And for those of you who know of our moving history, all of our stuff was located and delivered (for the most part) actually to Alabama!! It's a toss up though as to whether I would prefer a delayed delivery of our furniture and it still arrive with no nicks, scratches, bumps, gouges, holes, missing parts, paint missing, screws gone, etc. or an on-time delivery with nearly every furniture piece having a nick, scratch, bump, gouge, hole, missing part, paint missing, or screw gone. Let's just say, the contents of our boxes arrived fine...but our furniture was quite a different story. Oh well, just stuff, right?!? None the less, we are settled, enjoying small-town life and the slower pace that hopefully this assignment will bring. It's lonely right now, just as every move to a new place is at about this point for me. It's about now that I begin to miss my friends, church and activities, but God is good. I know He will bring someone or something into my life to make me less lonely...and if that is simply more time to spend with Him, I am grateful for that! I leave you with one more picture...one of my favorites from our trip!

I love these boys!!