Indiana to California

One week ago I was cleaning up after I had a farewell party in my back yard.  I invited a few close friends and all of my family, both sides of coarse.  It was so amazing that I was able to have this apart of our adventure.  There were lots of tears that were shed but I was doing it with the ones I love.  As I sat there on my porch the next day I reflected that how amazing it was to be able to have the people in my everyday life all come together in my back yard.  Some knew each other and others didn't but it was all such a blessing and a good feeling to have hugs from all.
On Monday July 28 we had packers arrive at our house in Peoga and start the packing process.  They packed everything, including all of my clothes.  All I had was the clothes that were dirty. (oh my) I tried not to panic as I watch all of my belongings go into boxes.  I told myself there was no use in a panic to just try to relax and let it happen.
On Tuesday July 29 the first people to arrive at our house were Hendrickson/Trietsch family to say goodbye to our dogs.  Shortly after that there was a gentleman that arrived at our home to pick up Gracie and Sugar Pi to take them on their journey to Chicago and then to fly to California on a direct flight the following day.  After they left there was a tow truck that arrived to take are vehicles.  Both cars were loaded up and then left.  Ginger came with the boys to be with us for the day.  Ginger helped me with trying to clean out closets and throw away left over belongings that were not going to California.  After several hours of waiting for the movers to come and pack all of our boxes into a truck, we realized that they were not coming.  With great disappointment I tried once again not to panic.  I was upset because I wanted to be able to clean up after they left and that was not going to happen.  My parents came after work to say goodbye to us.  Hugs for everyone and Ginger, Tristan, Kellen, Mom and dad were on their way.  I spent a few more hours there at the house and then we left to have dinner with the Trietsch/Hendrickson's.  We came home for a last minute packing of our personal belongings and then we held each other in the hallway to say our nightly prayers and said goodbye to our home.
We said our goodbyes to the Trietsch/Hendrickson's and as the other goodbyes it was hard too.  Hugs for everyone more then once and then we were off.
On Wednesday July 30 we left Indianapolis on a direct flight to San Francisco.  It was a four and half hour flight.  The flight was good and we arrived safely to our new home city.  We got our rental car and then found a place to eat lunch.  After lunch we found our temporary housing, an apartment.  Sugar pi and Gracie come right after we arrived.  They were happy to see us.
We had pizza for dinner and then went to bed early since we had not gotten that much sleep the night before.  Early was 7pm here and 10pm at home.
After being here I will say I am very overwhelmed with all of my senses.  Just the fact that I am five minutes away from everything.  Everything being "town" where all of the stores and food and work are.  As many in my life know I am used to driving about 30min to an hour just to get where I was going..."going to town" :)