I SUCK!!!!!!

I would love to say that I'm on top of life, but I think that I got ran over by it.

For all that don't know, I accepted a new job in Helena Montana and we moved the family here. What an experience!!!!!

First things first...once the trailer was loaded up, it was WAY too heavy. Instead of leaving things in Portland, I decided that we would buy bigger better tires and give it a shot. We stopped half way (ha) at Tami's Mom's in Pasco Washington. Tami left at 9:00 am and had both kids and Jake, and the cat in her car. She called me at 2:00 pm that afternoon and I had just barely gotten on the road from the tire store. (geez!!!!).

The truck was overloaded and so I decided that better safe than sorry and I would only go 50 MPH through the gorge and even on the flat's it was just too squirly so only 55 MPH period.

It took forever to get there. I rolled in about 8:00 pm and Tami was fit to be tied.

The cat was giving the "in heat" meow the whole time in the car. Tami told me that if she had passed a humane society, we wouldn't have a cat.

So everyone got a good nights sleep and we hit the road on saturday morning at 8:00 am.

Mapquest said that the trip would take 6:32 minutes from there...Cake walk.

Well....that number is driving the speed limit or more (ha ha)....so after stopping for potty breaks and snack and lunch and snack and dinner and more potty....we finally got here at 9:00 PM saturday night.

The kids were beat, Tami was frusterated and exhausted, I was anxious and stressed out.

There is a huge pass right before town that is a winding road 6% grade, and it's raining, and dark, and the suggested truck speed is 25mph (if that explains anything). I was so scared not to burn up the brakes, I tried to keep it slow, but the trailer and the truck were so heavy that it would try to run on me. I thought I was a pretty good driver, but it was all i could do to get it down that mountain safely. It was the last obstacle to our new life and we tackled it head on...successfully....together as a family.

We called the Bishop of our new ward here in Helena and even though it was late when we got here, there were members waiting here to help us get uploaded. What took me 2 weeks to load, they unloaded in less than an hour. I am so grateful for that, it would have killed me to do it alone. It is just another sign to us that this is where we are supposed to be.

I started work on Monday and Tami started her new life as a stay at home Mommy. I feel so blessed to atleast give her the opportunity to be home with the kids. (it is tough, I will recognize that). She has been a trooper through this whole transition. I have flipped her life upside down and she keeps on coming back for more. (I love my wife so much).

Week one was fairly relaxed, alot of meetings to get ramped up on the new project. I think that we will be successful here as a family.

We took some pics of the House that we are staying in and will take some of the new house as it is being built.

We love you all.