Party for Heidi

What a week we had! We packed up our house, moved in with Grandma and Grandpa Forman on Thursday the 8th. On Friday Jared and I went back down to our little house and moved everything into a pod and then got the house spotless clean while the kids stayed up at the Formans. Saturday was a party for Heidi at their new house in Rohnert Park that I really wanted to be at. Jared was very fatigued but very sweet to agree to the four hour round trip drive with the kids. However, just as we have everything packed Jared realizes that my car won’t start. One of the kids had left the light on in the back and the car had sat for a few days so the battery died. It always happens when you need to be somewhere at a certain time. So, we got someone to come out and replace the battery and then headed to the party. As those close to us know, Daddy is an excellent driver, and makes great time on the road so we were not even late. We enjoyed a fun afternoon of food, cake and a walk to the park. It was all going so well. The kids were monkeys at the park and all smiles. Then we headed home. It was an awful ride home. The kids all fell asleep at six; which was too late for a nap and too early for bed. At seven we attempted to get them some fast food to wake them up a little bit with absolutely no success. And personally, we don’t even like fast food so we just threw it all away. There is nothing so inherently irritating like throwing money away. Once we hit Sacramento I realized that I needed formula so we had to stop again. It was a refresher course to why we don’t travel. When we made it back to Dean and Linda's house the kids were starving, of course, and they wanted to play. But we eventually got them in bed and felt satisfied that we had endured the difficulties to be with family.