Let me start with when we first started this journey. It was middle of February I believe. We were just done with not being able to do the things we had wanted, sick of living paycheck to paycheck and tired of being limited by things that were within our control, but that we hadn't taken control of. We were looking for answers. Then one day William came to me and says, "I am tired of waiting for life to happen to us, it is time for me to go get what I want. So I contacted this school to see about attending." I was in shock, it came out of no where. Then the next month was trying to get transcripts and old colleges to communicate. We had a big issue with Carrington, since they were rearranging their whole school at the time. It took about a month and a few upgraded calls to get them to finally give us an answer. At this point we didn't know whether William would be able to go. He needed to have 60 credits to continue onto Parker University. Also since Carrington does their semester, terms, quarters, or modules different than a typical school we didn't know how it would translate over. After about a month and a half of waiting and phone calls and emails passed we finally got an answer at the end of May. I still remember that moment he got the call. I was so scared and excited at the same time. The reason being it was a long way from any family and whole new state and no idea how we were going to do it. We had a long road ahead of us.
We went through our entire home and garage and get rid of a bunch of stuff, I'm sure glad we did. We had a bunch of just crap. I don't know how we acquired so much crap in such a tiny space. Also during this time we celebrated our 11th year wedding anniversary. On that same day we found that we were going to be welcoming a new addition to our family, I was dumb founded. This was not part of the plan at all! In fact I had an appointment to get an IUD inserted. I was on birth control and we didn't want to mess with having to get it when we moved, one less stress. Anyways, over the next month we packed, scheduled last minute doctor appointments, and bought plane tickets. Also during this time we were trying to get medicines set up for Spencer so he would have enough till we found a new pulmonologist, and what a pain that was! Ended up having my sister-in-law, Sheilah, send us some medicine after we had moved. At about that time I started to get severe nausea, I had a hard time doing daily tasks it was so bad. Thankfully I had an amazing OB and he called in some medicines to get me through. During this time we were on the hunt for housing. This was a trial and a blessing all at the same time. Nobody had openings for when we wanted to move, except one place and we hadn't heard anything leading up to our trip to Texas.
On July 25th we packed up the kids, in our new van, and drove to Boise to drop the kids off with Aunt Sierra and Uncle Roy while we flew to Texas. As we were driving on our trip I got an email! Not just any email, a housing email! We had gotten the house we were wanting to rent! What a blessing. This was the school's Power weekend where they invite prospective students to tour the school, meet other students, talk to faculty and see the philosophy of the school. The kids were excited they were able to spend the weekend with Aunt Sierra and Uncle Roy. Ashleigh made a new friend with their dog Sadie and she carried her little cousin Gavin around everywhere. Patrick and Spencer were excited to have two more boys to just play with. The next morning, Thursday, William and I got on a plane and flew to Denver. Our first flight of the day. Since it was stormy and raining in Denver the pilot had a hard time landing and had to have another go at it. I threw up, I was doing pretty good nausea wise at this point in pregnancy. But the next flight was great and no issues there. Poor William was stuck in the middle for both flights cause he was too tall for the window. We landed at DFW airport at about 8:30p.m. and caught an Uber to our hotel. My first opinion of Dallas at that point was: "I'm never driving ever when we get here the freeways are crazy and confusing, also everywhere!" We got some food and went straight to bed because we had to be up early to start our weekend at the school. The weekend consisted of us sitting in a large room listening to people talk but they also had points where we could tour the campus, talk to other students, and meet the admissions advisor we had been assigned. We got lots of answers to questions we had. Learned that William would only be in the Pre-DC program for 2 tri's or 8 months instead of the year we were thinking. We also got confirmations on a few things we were already thinking. Sunday morning we got up at 3:30 a.m. to head to the airport for our flight back to Boise to pick up our children. We were so exhausted at this point we hardly could keep our eyes open. We got back to Boise with no issues and safely. Left early Monday morning and headed for home.
The next two weeks consisted of packing and cleaning and last minute errands to get things into place for our move. On Thursday August 9th we picked up our moving truck and started our packing. We left The next morning for Boise, the first stop on our long journey.
To be continued......
P.s. I apologize for lack of any pictures. I didn't really take any during this time. I have a hard time remembering to take them!
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