Saturday, June 11, 2011

Moved to The Gila Valley

Well, it's true. We now live in the Gila Valley for the Summer and it's been so wonderful! I wanted to take the time to jot down just a few things about our move, so I don't forget them in later years.
Our trip down went all right...Macy got a small flu bug 15 minutes after driving away from our home and puked all over the inside of the moving truck, so we pulled over in Spanish Fork for half an hour and cleaned that mess up at a gas station. But we arrived in St. George that night fine. We stayed at my bro-and sis-n-law (Ryan and Heather)'s home. Our second day of the trip we got pulled over within 10 minutes of getting on the road, due to Dave and I both driving through a red arrow on a green light. We just got warnings, but I honestly thought we were getting pulled over for possibly having immigrants in our moving trailer. I had no idea we drove through a red arrow, I just saw the green light and went for it. We just got a verbal warning, but then we were on our way again. Then probably 4 hours down the road, a huge wind gust and whirlwind came, pushing the moving truck off to one side of the road and then Dave tried to correct it, and the truck came off of it's wheels on one side. It looked like it was going to roll, and I was driving behind watching in utter shock, and praying so hard that they didn't flip. It was very scary because my husband and two youngest daughters were in that all most flippy truck, I had a good cry while driving, partly for sheer terror, and the other part for gratitude that everyone was safe and the truck didn't flip. But everything else went smoothly and safely. We went to Pinetop from there, and visited with our good friends, Bethany and Curtis, and then dropped all of our stuff off in a storage unit there. We then went to return our moving truck and there was a ton of drama around that. The return place was 10 miles outside of town, so we filled up in town and then drove the truck out to her, and she flat out refused to take the truck and so we had to drive back into town and fill it up enough that it would litterally spill out while driving, and then the lady that worked at the return location took it back then. Later that afternoon we drove to Strawberry and visited with my parents for 3 days, and my brother came up for two of those and visited with us at the same time. That was great to see his little family, and their baby Walker is 1 year now, and so chunky and cute. So, now we are living with my Grandmother for the summer. It is hot and I love it. The sun shines everyday, (I am burned front and back....I guess I got a little too excited about the weather being so nice...)temps have been in the high 90's and low 100's and unlike the Valley (Mesa-PHX area) it cools down really nice here in the evenings. It has also been such a joy and so wonderful to spend time with all of our family and friends here. Anyways, being away, really allowed me to appreciate being close to my family again. How very lucky I am!!

1 comments:

The Gooding Family said...

Wow, what an adventurous trip back home!! I am glad you made it safely. Enjoy the sunshine and your family! Take care, Amy. :)