Long Weekend in review...
Wednesday after work I made my way home, helped Harmony finish loading the van, and hit the road. We arrived in Hillsboro between close to 8 PM, and soon after attempted to put the kids to bed.
Thursday morning we woke at around 6 AM, and after breakfast hit the road heading over to Chuck and Shari's house to hook up with Jacob and Talia. A little before 8 we all hit the road. After pretty much 8 hours straight of driving, enjoying sandwiches on the road, we arrived in Sagle, ID. The story goes that the people of Sagle wanted to name their town Eagle, but Eagle, ID already existed.
Thursday night, we took about 4 hours packing and organizing the house before collapsing in bed.
Friday morning we woke up and headed into town for breakfast and to collect the truck. Jacob and Talia chose to use Budget rentals to save a little money. Technically a commercial truck, a higher bed in back, just not as clean as a U-Haul, and the customer service was lacking a little. But a large 26' bed, and a good diesel engine. If you have ever visited them you know that the shop Jacob, Talia and the boys called home was at the top of a hill with a long, steep driveway. We really wanted to load this truck up and not have to come back up the driveway again.
After about 8 hours of loading the truck, we decided to go for broke. The house was empty and we headed down to the storage unit. After spending another hour shifting some things between the truck and storage, we officially hit the road back to Oregon. 8 more hours of driving and we arrived back at Chuck and Shari's house at 2:30 AM.
In review I believe that what we pulled off in 1 day would have taken them 2-3 days by themselves.
Friday morning, after 4 hours of sleep, Harmony and I drove back to Hillsboro to collect our kids. Aunt Melody had acted as a 24 hour baby sitter for us so we could make this little trip. Around 1 PM we were back at the Howell's. Chuck and Jacob had already unloaded half the truck. We stuck around another 4 hours and helped finish up.
Talia borrowed our van to go collect her boys from Tiffany's. Tiff had stepped up and watched all three boys on top of her own two kids, what a trooper. Talia also filled up or van for us so we could make it back home. While this was going on, Chuck and Harmony went out to the garden and filled up 2 50# chicken feed sacks with ears of corn. He also gave us a flat of apples.
Tiff had come over and suggested we head over to her home with her for a quick dinner of left over pizza and split pea soup. Around 7:30 PM we jumped back in the van and headed home.
Exhausted, and sore we made it home and put the kids to bed around 10PM Friday night.
Through it all we had 2 days without our kids, a nice little break. Lots of fellowship with two family members we are blessed to also call friends. We were blessed with a full tank of gas, all the corn we could have wished for, and enough apples to last us a month. And all we had to do was bend our backs a little bit.
Thursday morning we woke at around 6 AM, and after breakfast hit the road heading over to Chuck and Shari's house to hook up with Jacob and Talia. A little before 8 we all hit the road. After pretty much 8 hours straight of driving, enjoying sandwiches on the road, we arrived in Sagle, ID. The story goes that the people of Sagle wanted to name their town Eagle, but Eagle, ID already existed.
Thursday night, we took about 4 hours packing and organizing the house before collapsing in bed.
Friday morning we woke up and headed into town for breakfast and to collect the truck. Jacob and Talia chose to use Budget rentals to save a little money. Technically a commercial truck, a higher bed in back, just not as clean as a U-Haul, and the customer service was lacking a little. But a large 26' bed, and a good diesel engine. If you have ever visited them you know that the shop Jacob, Talia and the boys called home was at the top of a hill with a long, steep driveway. We really wanted to load this truck up and not have to come back up the driveway again.
After about 8 hours of loading the truck, we decided to go for broke. The house was empty and we headed down to the storage unit. After spending another hour shifting some things between the truck and storage, we officially hit the road back to Oregon. 8 more hours of driving and we arrived back at Chuck and Shari's house at 2:30 AM.
In review I believe that what we pulled off in 1 day would have taken them 2-3 days by themselves.
Friday morning, after 4 hours of sleep, Harmony and I drove back to Hillsboro to collect our kids. Aunt Melody had acted as a 24 hour baby sitter for us so we could make this little trip. Around 1 PM we were back at the Howell's. Chuck and Jacob had already unloaded half the truck. We stuck around another 4 hours and helped finish up.
Talia borrowed our van to go collect her boys from Tiffany's. Tiff had stepped up and watched all three boys on top of her own two kids, what a trooper. Talia also filled up or van for us so we could make it back home. While this was going on, Chuck and Harmony went out to the garden and filled up 2 50# chicken feed sacks with ears of corn. He also gave us a flat of apples.
Tiff had come over and suggested we head over to her home with her for a quick dinner of left over pizza and split pea soup. Around 7:30 PM we jumped back in the van and headed home.
Exhausted, and sore we made it home and put the kids to bed around 10PM Friday night.
Through it all we had 2 days without our kids, a nice little break. Lots of fellowship with two family members we are blessed to also call friends. We were blessed with a full tank of gas, all the corn we could have wished for, and enough apples to last us a month. And all we had to do was bend our backs a little bit.
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