Hello Kansas City!

Have you ever been so tired you could cry? Well... moving our family to Kansas City brought me to tears last friday! We spent all day with the moving truck, all afternoon cleaning it and all night driving through a snow storm over Vail Pass. By the time we got to Denver at 2:00 I was so extremely exhausted I couldn't even make a sentence.

Saying goodbye to Montrose and all of our kind friends there was so hard.  I had 10 girlfriends come over to help me pack the kitchen on Thurs. They brought lunch and we packed and laughed and ate. I sure miss them all!

Saturdays drive across Colorado and Kansas was beautiful. So much open space. The kids were troopers. They hardly complained. I sure do love them. We arrived in Kansas City to dense fog and rain! Thunder storms and lighting. We recovered by the hotel pool on Sunday. Monday morning we started unpacking the Diesel. How is it that we fill up a diesel with all our stuff. Do we really need any of it? There is a new rule while we are here....no one brings anything home from the store!

The heat was off. Unpacking in a coat is not so fun. One of the furnaces in the house needed serviced. I got on that right away! I HATE being cold. The kids sat in the car watching movies for a few Hours while we worked on getting heat. Then we had no water on until the heat was on for 24 hrs. So that was a long time to hold it for our family. The water came on with only one small leak in the upstairs bathroom. It started pouring water into the kitchen right onto the new lab top. Ben ran for the water shut off and I ran for the lab top! I didn't have a towel so I used my shirt. Oh, and we are on day for of eating out with six kids. There was no fridge in the house. I went shopping for one Tues. The soonest it could be delivered...Friday!
Wednesday was a good day. We had heat, hot water and beds.

Thursday the kids had their first day at their new school. They were so excited and nervous at the same time. The kids in the neighborhood are so friendly! They love being able to play in the neighborhood.
Everyone we have meet seems nice and genuine. Utah seems to like it too! The squirrels are not so fascinating in his old age. He loved to chase them up the trees when we lived in Cleveland.