This is what the river looked like when we arrived on the 17th. It quickly went down, thankfully!

Our trip

Well, it was quite a trip up to Minot, but we are here. We've actually been here for a week today. On Wednesday last week we were supposed to travel from Omaha, NE to Aberdeen, SD. In the morning, we had a blow-out on the left side of our black trailer. It didn't take too long to get that fixed, but then about 4:00pm, we think we hit something in the road because BOTH right tires blew at the same time! This did some pretty bad damage to the trailer, so Bob drove the children (except for Trevor) and me to Brookings, SD and checked us into a hotel, then took some new tires and parts back to the truck/trailer to try to fix it. It ended up that we had it towed, but they had to take it back to Sioux Falls. So the next morning, we went the approx. 60 miles BACK to Sioux Falls to get the trailer. This turned out to be somewhat of a blessing as the folks who towed it also fixed it and they didn't charge us much of anything. They were also Christians and were SO sweet. They let us use their yard to move some of our stuff from the black trailer to the flatbed because we thought we had the black trailer too heavy. That's what the picture above is. The owner of this business gave our boys little toy tow trucks and then just as we were leaving he gave Bob a copy of the DVD Life Without Limbs. They have also called us twice to check on us and see how we made the rest of our trip. God is good to use our hard times to bless us anyway! I will post again about other parts of our journey.

Blessings,

Sheryll

We're full!

Apparently the thought of trying to fit the rest of the stuff in overwhelms Titus as much as it does Dad1

Can't fit much more in there!

3 days and a wake-up!

Here's a better picture of the children, taken at Sheryll's Dad's house. Tomorrow is my last day of work in the Navy. Wow! We're almost ready to go. We are ready to be done! I think the 80/20 rule applies to moving...you spend 80% of your time getting the last 20% of your stuff loaded. There are 5 days in the 10 day Minot forecast with highs of 50 or above, so we're hoping the 2 foot of snow still on the ground will be gone before we arrive.

Sheryll's First Post

This is not a great picture of the children, but it's the most current one we have. I am SO not creative or a writer, but Bob wants me to contribute, so here it goes!

I have been busy packing. This is a different kind of packing than we have usually done since we have to sort our belongings into three different categories: The things that can wait years until we get the house built, the things we will need in our garage/apartment, and those that we will need right away while we live in the camper.

I am making an inventory of what is in each box and writing it in a notebook. Each box is numbered so that we can find what we need later. Hopefully Bob won't have to dig too far into the truck too many times to get things I discover I didn't leave in the "need in camper" section.

We are excited to get up to the farm and build and garden and have animals. It is something we have dreamed of and talked about for many years. God is so good to allow us to get to do this. We are thankful!

Our posts should get a little more interesting after we get up there and are telling you about what we have done each day (or week, however often we find time to post).

Blessings,
Sheryll

Half way loaded (the truck and trailer, that is!)

24 Days and a wake-up to go, and we're half way loaded. So far so good!

Cargo trailer

Sheryll's Dad is letting us borrow his 20 foot cargo trailer for the move. We now have all the vehicles/trailers in place, so with 35 days to go, things are coming together. Now we can start packing/loading in earnest!