Moving Day(s)

First of all, a few weeks ago Neely started this little "Pfff" thing when she's amused by something but not enough to really laugh about it.  Here's a little taste(Sort of-these ones are especially forced since I was trying to get her to do it on video):

We had one last week in Oklahoma, which was filled mostly with swimming lessons and packing boxes.  We bought a set of (conveniently) 3 goggles for swim, which they all loved. 

Mostly Neely though, I had to force her to give them up each day after letting her wear them for a while.  She was the only toddler wearing goggles at her class.  Ha.

Packing wasn't nearly as bad as I worried it would be. We had the majority of it done, and Jess got the U-Haul Friday night and started loading it up.    The kids played with the trailer a bit, and we all got a million mosquito bites.

We picked Jenni up at the airport on Saturday, because she's a fantastic best friend and flew here to help with stuff I couldn't help Jess with while pregnant, and to take turns driving with me on the way home.  

After getting her from the airport we went straight to lunch, where Neely did her first drawing that we could recognize for what it was supposed to be.  It was a robot.

Jenni and Jess spent all afternoon and evening loading the truck.  Jenni even did a lot of cleaning.  I made a few attempts to be helpful but got shut down pretty quickly, and eventually gave up and mostly watched from a rocking chair.  Maybe moving at 30 weeks pregnant is actually the perfect time to move.

We just BARELY got all our stuff in.  Technically we didn't, we had to leave a couple things behind that we had planned to keep, but nothing I couldn't live without.  We also packed the explorer FULL, which Jess pulled on a trailer behind the U-Haul.

We didn't plan well, so we had to sleep on the floor in the living room on a few mattresses-even our poor guest.

 Our nice neighbors came out to see us off.  The kids had some sweet goodbyes, which Gia thought she had to be a part of.  She did actually have a lengthy goodbye herself, with Kevin, the dad, who she might be in love with.

Jenni, the kids and I got in the Pilot, Jess and Gia got in the U-Haul and we were off.

The drive was so much nicer having Jenni there to help, and to talk to, although the kids didn't do much napping.  They were SO good that first day.  We stayed the night in Albequerque, and left after breakfast in the morning.

 The second day of driving still went well, but felt even longer, and the kids had a harder time.  They were still great, considering how long we were driving, but we definitely had more fighting over phones and the kindle.  Cason's hair was even pulled "accidentally".  But we made it.  I dropped Jenni off at her house, and her girls were so cute, watching for their mama from the window.

A lot of my family came to greet us, but I didn't think to get pictures.  Or maybe my phone had died by then?  I don't remember honestly.  Ha.  

The kids passed out pretty early.

 I was 30 weeks the day we left, and I did have Jess take a picture of me early in the morning before we left, but I am too embarrassed to post that one here.  So here's my 30.5 week belly from after we were back in AZ.