I am so sore!  We moved this week!  What a whirlwind of people and activity and stuff, stuff, and more stuff!  We had some great help but we still got pretty worn out.  We're pretty sure our help feels the same way.  Lol!

We closed on both houses on Wednesday.  Kevin rented a truck on Thursday and Kevin's Dad and Maria came from Idaho with another truck and we started packing.  We put stuff in trucks all day Thursday.  My friends Ivory and Jen both came with their families to help and Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik came to give wonderful help, as well.  We spent our last night on Brookside Dr. Thursday.  Sarah arrived from BYU-I that night to be there to help! Friday morning, after sending kids off to school, we started taking down beds and continued packing trucks.  As soon as we got the call that we could bring things to the new house, we shifted gears, drove to the new house and started taking things out of the truck and (hopefully) to the right rooms!  Lift, carry, carry, drop, walk back, repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat., etc. etc.  Sarah was a great help all day and my friend, Ivory stayed all day.  Plus, both sets of grandparents!  People from our new ward started arriving around 4:30 (as well as Kevin's brother, Todd!) and were a terrific help not only with the heavy things but also to cut down on the number of times we had to carry a box and repeat.  Ugh.  Maria and Naoma made us dinner while we worked and we had lovely spaghetti to reward us for a hard days' work!  Megan got friend, Hannah, to come get her and then they both helped, too.  After dinner, we had to go back to the old house and scoop up all the last things sitting here and there and finish cleaning.  When we were all done, Savannah arrived! and we sat in the old TV room and shared a favorite memory each before saying goodbye and locking the doors!

Mom and Dad's new Purple bed.  Hey!  get off so we can go to sleep!

Saturday we still did some unpacking and unloading but we also did some sitting and visiting especially with Sarah and Megan (Savannah had to go back and do some tests!).  Cali and Chey had basketball practice, though, and Mariah went for a run, and Beth and Ben and Chey and Cali all had friends come up to play for a little while in the woods behind my house.  (I have woods!)  (See how I said "my house?"  Silly me.)  Kevin pretty much continued to run ragged helping different kids with one project after another.  What a good man!  And an exhausted one!

Meg had to work from 5-9, but we wanted to take the opportunity to carve Jack-o-Lanterns as a family while Sarah was here from school, so we just waited until 9:30 to start!  Meg even brought Michael, her new boy friend, for us all to meet.  Everyone was in high spirits and we laughed and had a great time! 

See?  We've already got memories made!  We also have some great quotes coming in this house.  Our first comes from Cheyenne, who after Dad gave an angry speech to the dog about never peeing in our house said, "Dad, I hate to break it to you, but we've all peed in your house."

Today was church, but because of the primary program we went one last time to the Hobble Creek First Ward.  What great people!  How we love them!  The primary program was awesome!  As usual.  Beth and Ben did fabulous.  Beth stood right in the middle and knew all the words to all the songs and sang beautifully and with confidence and Ben stood on the far side and managed some words here and there but did a lot of rocking to the music.  Does that count?  Ha ha!

We did have some important events earlier in the week, too.  Cali and Chey had a choir concert
which was beautiful and they also got inducted into National Junior Honor Society which is a new thing at their junior high.

Beth and Ben had a belt test in Karate and both advanced up!