Thursday, June 27, 2013

The trip with no return!

After nine months of anticipation the big move came and went with only a few minor "bugs" along the road. Mom and Ray were so awesome and came up to help us. We loaded all our stuff up in our truck and car, their truck, and Grandpa Bob's moving trailer. We were quite the caravan.

Just over halfway here mom calls and says their truck died and they are pulling off the road.  Walker and I pulled off and we jetted back up in my car to see what the trouble was.  The truck would start but wouldn't stay running. They called a tow and we threw as much as we could in Walker's truck, the trailer and my car and Walker and I headed down the road.  We waited for them in Bozeman and after some rearranging were able to fit Mom, Ray, their stuff, and the rest of our stuff in our two vehicles and the trailer.  It was quite the squish. We left their truck at the Ford dealership in Bozeman.  Ray got a call Monday and the mechanic asked straight up if they had had the vehicle serviced recently. Apparently when they had the air filter changed before the trip the mechanic didn't ensure that the air box was completely clean; a bug had melted to the air flow sensor (or whatever it is) causing the truck to not run.  At least it wasn't the fuel pump.

Our new place is great! We live less than a mile from the Yellowstone river which makes for a great run and we're very close to Walker's new work. OH and we have bunnies that live in the field behind our house and they like to spend the evenings on our front lawn!

I realized on our way up that this is almost like a vacation, except we're not going home. It's strange being so far from home and family, it's definitely going to take some getting used to.


View from the old place
 Definitely going to miss these mountains


 Between Billings and Bozeman
 He hates pictures



 Our new place!!!




 I might be a little over excited that we have bunnies!

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Bye Bye Buick

Walker bought the ol' Buick from Grandma about two years ago and has been using it as his commuter car. We decided that there was no use trying to get a third vehicle 600 miles when we didn't really need it, so we decided to say goodbye and sell it.



Monday, June 10, 2013

Stephen and Cheyanne's Wedding

Stephen and Cheyanne had the cutest wedding, 50's theme and they pulled it off perfectly!
 The boys looked so sharp


 Stephen pushed their little girl down the isle!


 Walker and I probably drank 20 of these that night, cola overload

Wishing those two all the happiness in the world!!