We had some amazing people people show up to help us move. We want to tell Doug Hamblin, Andrew Branch, Ward and Joe Wright and especially big thanks to our wonderful parents Randall and Dawn Wright. We couldn't have done it without all of you, we are so blessed to such great friends and family. That has been the hardest part for us was to leave all those great people behind, but we are excited to make new friends and have a new ward family.
On the 1st Tyler and I got up at 3:30 am to pack and to try to get everything ready for when people would show up at 10 am. We packed and loaded and and reloaded the Uhaul by 5 pm we were finally done went and had dinner and saw our kids. Tyler and I went to take a nap since we planned to drive through the night so it would be easier on the kids. Tyler had a good nap but me on the other hand couldn't sleep very good and didn't get much of nap. Tyler and I had audio books to listen to and would talk to each other and keep an eye where the other was. I did good until 6 am where I just couldn't keep my eye open. We pulled over I think an hour and half away from Santa Monica. I went into the Uhaul while Tyler drove around for 45 minutes with the kids. After that I did great and we arrived in Santa Monica around 9:30. The realtor that works for those that own our apartment lives in the building his name is Richard he saved us a parking spot right in front of our apartment and let us use his parking permit. I had hired two guys to help us move in from a recommendation from other Rioters while we were waiting Tyler and the boys brought in some stuff while the girls and I found bagel shop just a block away. We had not had breakfast and we ate on the front steps of our apartment it was crazy coming from pretty cold to not needing jacket in January.
The two guys that helped move in were great their names were Jay and Randy. Jay had an accent the kids thought he might be from Australia but come to find out he was from London, England. There was point that Tyler and them couldn't get our couch in the front door and we thought we might not be able to have it. It was bit stuck and in the process of getting in unstuck they got in the door. No one could tell me how they did it or if they could do it again. It took us the morning and the afternoon to unpack the truck. We let the kids watch a movie on the ipad while Tyler and I did some more setting up but Adelaide was worn out and I found her at the table asleep.
Later we went to dinner at place called Poqutio Mos that we were able to walk to. We went with friends from Riot Nick(who has been on Tyler's team for the past six months) and his wife Candy.
After dinner we parted ways and came home to put the kids to bed. They all did great sleeping in their beds in new place.
