Goodbye Missouri!

I haven't posted in a while, so I don't think I've mentioned anything about moving. Our lease for our place ended at the end of October, so we moved all the way out to Chino, California. Whoah. Big change, right? We had our move-out inspection Monday morning, then Zach spent a couple hours tetris-ing everything into our car. Ran a few errands, and then headed out. We drove all night because Kansas sucks, and then got into Denver around 5 or 6 am- I'm not sure when, I was asleep- and we hung out at a McDonalds for a while. We wanted to wait until it was light out to drive through the mountains, since the drive through the Rockies is just beautiful.

After lots of driving, a two hour stop at Urgent Care for Richard (he was pretty sick), and a random snowstorm that left us with almost no visibility, we made it to Bryce, Utah Tuesday night. There we set up camp and snuggled up under a ton if blankets. It was so cold! The low that night was 12 degrees. Seriously. Cold. We had Noah bundled up, and he slept between us in the tent, then we had 4 or 5 warm blankets on top of us, with a crocheted quilt I made covering our heads. It was too cold without having our faces covered! Mali slept in the tent with us, she was snuggled by my legs for a while. If the ground hadn't been so cold, we would have been fairly comfortable. Apart from where we were touching the ground, we were warm. But anyway. We woke up pretty early in the morning, went to look at a few neat things around Bryce Canyon, and then drove on to Zion, Utah. It was beautiful! We stopped a couple times to hike to a few different interest parts. From there, we headed to Vegas. Stayed the night with Justin and Krista.

Thursday we hung out and Noah and Jake played. That afternoon, we went to visit Zach's mom at her new school. =) we left Vegas that evening and pulled into the driveway in Chino around 1-1:30 am.

And that brings us to today. We briefly introduced Mali to the dogs. It didnt go well. Merle chased her into a corner and she cowered and hissed at him. Thats going to be interesting. =)

Zach and I still need to unload the car and get settled in our room. So that's pretty much what's been going on with us. I'm pretty excited about this new adventure we're starting. I love that we can step outside and see the mountains. And we're an hour or less drive away from the beach, which I'm super thrilled about. =)

I was going to add some pictures from the trip in, but most of them are already off my iPod. All I have is a shot of the sunset in Henderson last night. So here's that. =)