The Big MOVE from Bakersfield

I wish I would have taken more pictures of all the help we were blessed to have as we packed up the house and cleaned and got moved out. My dad was gracious enough to come down and bring his truck and trailer for us to load up.....BOY was it loaded! We even had a yard sale...and it is a good thing because we were loaded to the max! We had Cody and a wonderful neighbor and friend Kirt Russell (also our stake president) come to help Ben load the heavy stuff. Earlier in the day I had 9 women from church (also GREAT friends) come to help me finish packing and deep cleaning the house....they were also great at entertaining the girls :) We have been so very blessed with good friends wherever we've been! It's nice to know we have our family away from home wherever we are....also known as the mormons :) Rachel also came over many times to help! Thank you just isn't enough for those wonderful friends who put their lives aside for a few hours to come help us. It is deeply appreciated!

As we were driving home in the intense heat.... we lost the tread on one of our tires just north of Las Vegas. Luckily, we were close to an exit with a gas station where we could change the tire and get other necessities. So we were on our way again. Another hour went by on our journey to St. George, UT and another tire fell to pieces in the gorge...just south of our final destination. After a quick family prayer, Ben put the first tire back on (our spare was on the other side and the first tire still had air, it was just losing tread). We drove the rest of the way with our hazard lights on and only going about 45 mph on the freeway. With a little faith and a lot of help from above we made it!!!! WAHOO!!!