This past month has gone by so quickly yet so much has happened. Right after Thanksgiving we started packing our house and getting ready to move to California. Moving in the winter is terrible, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, especially right before Christmas. But, that is what we did and fortunately after many mishaps it all worked out.

The month was filled with packing and lots of late nights of game playing (trying to pack it all in before we left). We had a lot of fun and made some good memories that we will carry with us for a long time.




We got the moving truck on the 17th and started loading it up that night. We had some snowstorms a few days prior but fortunately everything was clear the day we loaded the truck. Glenn's brothers Roger and Andy came out to help with the loading and then to drive out with Glenn. But we we didn't luck out entirely. Our brother-in-law Jon was flying in on Thursday the 18th to help with the drive out which almost didn't happen.


There was suppose to be a winter storm warning for around 9 pm but kept getting pushed up until it was suppose to start at midnight. Jon's flight was scheduled to get in at 12. He got lucky and landed just as it started to snow. That night it snowed and snowed and snowed and when we woke up the next morning there was 16 to 18 inches of snow on the ground!




I'm pretty sure this was the biggest snowstorm we have had in the 7 and 1/2 years we lived there. It seemed like a terrible joke. They were still determined to leave, so we waited until early afternoon until the main roads were clear. The only problem was our road was not cleared at all. They started the truck and made it about 10 feet and the truck came to a stop. They ended up shoveling the truck out the entire length of our street and 2 hours later they were off. But the troubles didn't end there, an hour and 1/2 later I called Glenn to see how they were doing and he said they had to stop because the truck broke down. They had to have someone come and get them and they stayed at my parents house that night. The next morning they dove back out to the truck where Uhaul informed them that they would have to switch trucks. After transferring everything from a completely packed 26' truck they were on their way again. They decided to drive south to avoid the weather and drove straight through and made it to California mid day on Monday the 22nd. It took them 48 hours! Oh, and 2 and 1'2 before they got there the trailer malfunctioned and a wheel fell off. They called Uhaul and told the they were leaving it on the side of the road and left. Then to add to the problems, me and the kids were going to fly out on Christmas eve, but I got a phone call the night before from the airlines telling me that my flight was canceled and that they couldn't fly us out until Christmas night. Oddly enough my flight was the only one canceled. Glenn was able to find a flight on another airline and we made it there for Christmas. Minus all the mishaps, we made it there safe and are all together again.

We are now getting settled and loving the change of scenery and a little warmer weather (even though we are already missing friends and family).