I think Richard wants to save all his family reunion montage making for the final DVD that he will distribute to the Samuelson family, so we just skipped on ahead to the move. The last few weeks have been really crazy. After we got home from the Samuelson Family Reunion and wedding in Boise, we only had a few weeks until school ended. We were still looking for a place to rent in Boise, and had only really had a chance to look at a few places. None of them looked very promising except one, but they wanted to rent that one right away, and we didn’t want to move until Aug 1st. Well, we applied anyway, and lo and behold we got it! The only stipulation was that we move in as early as we could –meaning right after school ended which was about two weeks from that date. So, suddenly we found ourselves moving a lot sooner than we planned, leaving our little garden for someone else to enjoy and a full month’s rent which will go to waste. So sad.
The weeks before the move were additionally crazy because we decided to cram in all our final social activities (i.e. dinners) with all our friends and family that we wouldn’t be seeing for a long time as well as one last trip to Jackson, WY for the county fair and to see my sister take part in the pig wrestling competition. We also went to the pool there in Jackson, since it is our favorite place to go swimming, but when we got there they told us that the kiddie pool was closed. Luckily the big slide was still open, so we had fun on that. Ethan loved the pool, but Gabe wasn’t so sure about things. He did warm up to it after a while. At the fair they also had a little petting zoo type thing which Ethan enjoyed, and I wish we had been able to go on some rides, but oh well.
The pig wrestling was pretty fun, but took a lot longer than we had anticipated, and the babies weren’t very happy about it. In case you’re wondering about the Coors cup, that was the one some guy spilled on my shoe saying, "Oh man, that was the saddest thing that's happened all day --that was a five dollar beer!" and then he left. Before I realized he had just left the cup there Ethan had gotten ahold of it and was filling it with dirt and pouring it out. At least he wasn’t yelling anymore, so I just let him play with it. You can see the full video of the pig wrestling down below.
The next day we had a big pizza dinner with friends we had lived and worked with in Jackson as well, and Ethan and Ashlyn were able to see each other one last time. It’s amazing to see how they’ve grown!
Anyway, thanks to a LOT of help from various people, we made the move, and it went very smoothly. I am so grateful to those people who came and helped, or who watched Ethan and Gabe while we packed and cleaned, I would not have been able to do it on my own. What Christ-like examples they have shown me.
So, here's Richard's documentation of everything, and just to explain a few random pictures you'll see: A while ago Ethan got ahold of some of my squash plant seeds and one got into the sandbox and grew there, so we had to document that. Also while playing in the sandbox ethan dropped his PB and J sandwich but before I could stop him he had taken a bite and got to taste his first real SAND-wich. We also found this half-eaten caramel and thought it was funny. Then at last we took some pictures of the produce we were able to salvage from our little garden the night before we left.
