Alone at last!

As many of you may know we have been waiting, not so patiently ;-), for Scott’s school to end so we could move. Well, it has finally happened!!! We are finally moved into our new house. We were able to find a house in Ketchum on a quiet residential street. I picked out the house by myself! Scott didn’t even see the house until we moved in. Scott now has a 4 minute drive to work (he is pretty excited). The house is a stone’s throw away from the bike path in Ketchum; I honestly think everything is a stone’s throw away from the bike path.

The move went smoothly, we asked our friends to come over Friday night to help us load the fragile stuff into our cars. Then at 10 am on Saturday our friends Katie and Gabe Lawrence, my sister Heather and her family, and the Elders Quorum showed up and we loaded the truck up. It took us 2 hours to get everything loaded. We stopped for lunch then hit the road for a 2 ½ hour drive to Ketchum. I was driving my pilot, my sister Jennifer was driving Scott’s car, and Scott was driving the U-Haul truck. We made good time and made it to the house at about 10 after 3 p.m. Once we were at the house we didn’t have to wait long for the Elders Quorum, Scott’s parents (Wynn and Neta), Scott’s brother Curtis, and my sister Crystal to show up to help unload. We got the whole truck and our 2 cars unloaded in about 2 hours. Thanks to my brother-in-law Danny for unloading the cars, basically by himself. Everyone was a huge help and we were really grateful to the people who showed up to help. My sister Jennifer even came up to Boise on Thursday and helped us finish packing, she was great.

Also while we were finishing unloading the Bishop from our new ward here in Ketchum and his wife showed up and lent a hand. They helped me in the kitchen unpacking boxes and then taking down the boxes. They were great. Not only did they help unpack Sis. Evans (the bishop’s wife) even took some of my dirty laundry and cleaned it for us (we found out on our way to Ketchum with our stuff that there was no dryer…). I don’t know what I would have done! Then a little later the Relief Society presidency showed up with dinner. We had bought sandwich fixings for everyone who helped to eat but, it was great to have on Sunday. We got to the house and realized the gas had been turned off… So, we can’t heat our house and we have no hot water. The stove doesn’t work either. So, we were extremely grateful to the Relief Society presidency for dinner. It really helped out a lot. So far we are very happy with our new house and our new ward. I think we are really lucky to have moved into this ward. I am excited for the coming year! Even though I will miss our friends back in Boise! I am happy to be moving on to the next stage of our lives.

I want to thank everyone who helped out! We are so thankful you were able to take time to come and help us. We couldn’t have done it without you! Now all that is left to do for me is head back to Boise and clean the apartment, then head on to Blackfoot on Wednesday to spend the rest of the week with Scott, my sister Crystal, and her family. What is left for Scott to do is drive the U-Haul to Blackfoot then head to class in Pocatello on Monday and Tuesday, after that he gets to play the rest of the week until graduation on Saturday. Graduation is at ISU in Pocatello at 10 am on Saturday the 5^th (if anyone wants to go). I am so excited, and relieved, that Scott is graduating on Saturday. He has worked so hard for this day. Now he just needs to pass his tests and he will be a pharmacist, at last!