WEEKS 25 & 26: Moving More Kids

After I had Chemo #6 , did we go back home so I could get some nice rest? Heck no! We hit the road again! I think out of 6 Chemos, we only went back home 2 times. The other 4 we went south instead. This was a crazy one! Wednesday after my Chemo was done, we went to Logan to help Tasha & Jake get ready for a move to Texas where Tasha will attend Radiation Therapy school. I worked on things like cleaning bathrooms & fridges. My weakness from Anemia made me not as effective as I was when we helped Collin & Tiffany move. The week after our Flathead trip, Conrad & Jamie moved from Rexburg Idaho to Glendale Arizona, where he will start Medical School. We didn't have to help them get moved. They had lots of help from friends to get loaded, and Conrad drove the rental truck while Jamie drove the car. Now with Tasha & Jake moving, this makes the 3rd of our kids to move this summer. Of all summers to have 3 kids move! To add to the craziness of the week we ran to Salt Lake on Friday for Joe Fairbank's wedding & reception. (The pic is Rich and I with Keith & Jean Fairbank at the luncheon.)

Then back to Logan we went to finish helping Tasha. By Monday most everything was boxed up in time to get the Budget rental truck. 4 or 5 guys from their church ward came and helped load it up. We spent all day Tuesday getting the apartment thoroughly cleaned so they can get back lots of deposit. Hope they got some!

Wednesday we took off for Amarillo and spent almost 11 hours in the truck, spending the night in Littleton, Colorado with Jake's family. Then Thursday it was 8 more hours in the truck. We got to Amarillo just in the nick of time, a full half hour before some guys from the Elder's Quorum in their new ward were scheduled to show up and help unload the truck. The 4 guys who came were awesome! They unloaded that full truck, and hauled it up 3 flights of stairs in a few hours! Here's a fun pic of Tasha & Dalyn "posing" on the balcony of their new 3rd floor apartment.

We spent the rest of the week in Amarillo, unloading boxes, checking out the area, and hanging with Tasha, Jake, Dalyn & Braelyn. We even hit an amusement park which the kids really enjoyed.

We flew home the next Tuesday, Aug. 3. We were gone from home for 2 whole weeks. Rich says that's the longest we've ever been away from home, and him from work, in one stretch. A crazy summer in everyone's lives!