I wish I would've written down better notes along the way on our drive across the country to North Carolina. I guess you don't think about those kinds of things when you are busy driving all day every day for 3 days, getting to a hotel late at night, unpacking suitcases for the hotel and then waking up early to repack stuff into the car, eat breakfast and get on the road again, haha. Looking back, it was fun to trek across the country, knowing we were going to get to discover so many new things on this new adventure of ours, but it was also kind of blur with how long of a trip it was. Rick drove the big moving truck, my dad drove our little red Toyota Yaris with Enoch, and I drove our Acura with my mom so she could help with the kids. We are SO grateful to my parents willing to help drive us across the country!
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| Last sunrise in Utah! |
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| We stopped at Chick-Fil-A for dinner one of the days. |
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| My mom and I drove on ahead of the big truck, so after a while we were a little ways ahead of them. We decided to stop and get some food at McDonalds (I think we were in Nebraska) and stopped at a little nearby park for the kids to get out and stretch. |
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| My mom did car selfies, each day of our drive. |
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| Rick hated driving this big ol, 24-foot truck! I would've too. So grateful for him driving all of our stuff across the country! |
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| Late night stop at a gas station. Brenna loved wearing sunglasses in the car, haha. |
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| So grateful for my dad getting us hotels on points. It helped so much to financially make it across the country!!! |
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| Her "I'm-sick-of-being-in-the-car" face, haha! |
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| We downloaded some new games on the iPad, and it kept Brenna SO entertained!! She especially loved the Tozzle and Puzzingo apps that are full of puzzles. |
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| Getting breakfast at the hotel before leaving. Her face!! Haha. |
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| Garrett was being grumpy and didn't want to eat breakfast. I think that's what spending the previous 2 days in the car does to you... 1 more day to go!!!! |
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| Kimbri thought the mustache cups were funny. |
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| Finally in North Carolina! So many trees!! |
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| Snapped a pic of the sunset out of the sunroof as we were coming into Fayetteville. |
We made it to our new home the evening of the 3rd day! It was a little bit of a whirlwind that night. I started vacuuming so we could put the kids beds in their rooms. They were supposed to have the house carpet-cleaned and I'm pretty sure they didn't follow through with that... there was hair EVERYWHERE!!! I sucked up so much hair from the stairs and along baseboards that the vacuum suddenly stopped and wouldn't start again. I'm pretty sure they just packed up stuff and left and didn't clean anything. So gross! So after a lot of cleaning and unpacking, we were all hungry. I took a trip around 11pm to Walmart to stock up for the weekend. It was Saturday night and we didn't want to have to worry about having to go to the store on Sunday.
The next morning we headed to our new ward at 9am. My mom snapped this pic for us in front of our new house!
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| The kids pulled out a bunch of toys while the adults kept unpacking boxes. I think Garrett were exhausted from the trip. |
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| Backyard view of the sunset. So pretty!! |
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| Monday afternoon my parents took us out for dinner to kind of celebrate an early birthday for me (which was later that week). We went to a place called El Burrito just down the street from home. |
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| Kimbri was playing dress up before lunch and did NOT want to change, so she wore her get up to the restaurant, haha!! :) |
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| Gpa Haycock playing frisbee with the kids in the backyard. |
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| Rick went and registered our cars... we are officially NC residents! |
