Well things have finally settled down a little so that we can enjoy the holidays so I thought I'd give an update. This week has been crazy at the Smith house! We've been busy busy busy packing up the house and are about 80%ish done. Avery was sick for about a week with various flu and cold symptoms and is thankfully back to her happy self. That made the packing experience somewhat interesting but we made it through. Now we're up at the Smith's in Bountiful through Christmas. We'll spend some time with the Haws' after Christmas and then get back to packing next weekend.
Our official load-up date is January 2nd. We're using the U-Pack service through ABF where we load a large trailer and they drive it to Wisconsin for us. It will take about a week for it to get there so once the house is empty and cleaned on the 3rd we'll come back up to Bountiful to hang out for a few days, then drive out our Subaru the 21 hour drive to Milwaukee. We're going to take three days so that we can take plenty of stops for the cranky 18 month-er and the even crankier 7-month pregnant woman. :) So we'll drive between 6-9 hours each day and take it slow since we have some time. Our plan is to arrive at our apartment on January 8th and then unload the trailer on the 9th. We just hope there isn't a blizzard or ice storm going on!! Cross your fingers for us!
We just found out that Vanessa's sister's family got a job to work in Iowa so they're moving to Des Moines (which is about 6 hours from Milwaukee) about a week after us. We're excited that we'll have some family within a reasonable distance! Congratulations Wells!
Well I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas. We're excited to watch Avery enjoy her presents. She loves to say "Santa". And her favorite thing to do right now is point out people in pictures. Luckily we boxed up all our photos so we don't have to hear her say "Mama! Dada! Ay-E" everytime she sees our family picture. (It's cute but after the 50th time in a row, it gets a little distracting). :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We're sad to leave Provo and all our friends and family but we're excited about our new future ahead of us with Kohl's in Milwaukee.
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Hurray for Milwaukee, it's only a couple of hours from Chicago, the greatest city on earth! You will love it! Plus WI has a lower state tax, so if you ever want to go to the outlet malls (random info that might come in handy...some time)
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