Nolden Snapshots

First off I just want to say thank you to all of the wonderful family/friends who have helped watched Jacob/invited us over one last time before our move later this week/and have offered their help in general.  It's truly meant a lot.  This past weekend we got tons done thanks to the help of family, and our apartment is officially a warzone.  I'd say 75% of our things are in boxes with a few odds and ends waiting til right before we go so we can at least eat on things and jake can still play with his toys etc.  It's hard though cause i'm seriously tempted to just box it all so it looks better but then I know I'll be bored out of my mind and left twiddling my thumbs for four days.

So the plan is to have everything packed/cleaned by Friday/mid day and then later that evening we have some people from our church coming over to help us load the Penske truck (seriously one of the many reasons I love being mormon-doesn't matter where you live, you have an instant system of help built in-I mean, how many people can say that no matter where they move to in the world they can find free help to move???).  Hopefully we'll be able to do it quickly and then it's off to spend our last night in Houston at my parents' so we can start bright and early the next day.

Hopefully we'll be able to roll into Springville sometime Monday.  The only thing that frustrates me about moving ourselves is how much slower it's going to take us on the road.  I mean, yes we have to pull over to change jake and get him out of the carseat every once in awhile but we've already done that and we did it in good time, but a moving truck towing a car can only go so fast.  The one thing I love about roadtrips is that you're mostly in the middle of nowhere and can go really fast (Within reason of course).  I can be an impatient person.  Often it's hard for me to stop and enjoy the journey rather than focusing on the destination and whether we're making good time or not.  Code however is great at enjoying the journey.

I've talked about it before-how we grew up viewing roadtrips very differently.  For my family they were to be endured and what mattered was getting to our destination as fast as possible and THEN our vacation would start.  For Code's family it was all about getting there-roadside tourist attractions, camping along the way-taking a WEEK to get somewhere was the norm.  To be perfectly honest I like that we are different in this area.  I like that Code can help me relax and enjoy the journey a little bit more, and I like that if we need to get somewhere and get there fast we can rely on me to make it happen.

So I guess the plan is to get some walkie talkies and caravan it.  We've also invested in a headrest/carrier for our ipad so we can use movies as distraction incase jake becomes inconsolable.  It only happened once last time we did this trip and movies seemed to do the trick at distracting him plus it was kind of entertaining for the driver to hear the movie even if they couldn't see it.

I just keep telling myself, in two weeks it'll be all over and we'll be relatively moved in/settled either way so why not enjoy the process-it's an adventure right? right.