UPDATE: Moving Back to California

6 WEEKS left before we move back home! I can't believe time is going by so fast. We are enjoying our time in CO and getting as much time as we can with my parents and brother. Patrick and I just spend the last 2 days in Breckenridge, CO →Fun Fact: That is where we honeymooned, 5 years ago← It was so much fun! If you want to see how our 2 days in Breck were, you can watch the videos I uploaded to my YouTube channel, here is Day 1 and here is Day 2.

Slowly we are figuring out more details about how we are going to move, where we are going to stay and what we are going to do once we get there.

How we are going to move is by renting a Budget moving truck and just putting ALL of our stuff in there and drive it to CA. My sister is going to fly out a few days before we leave and drive back with us. Patrick will be driving the moving truck the whole way and I will be driving our car with my sister and the kids. We thought about doing a straight shot, but I figured, why stress ourselves out? We are in no rush to get there so we decided to split it into a 2 day trip. We will leave Colorado on Thursday, May 24th in the morning and drive to Vegas and stay at a hotel near there. We will be able to get a full nights sleep and then get back on the road Friday morning and arrive to California around dinner time. The great thing about my sister traveling with us is that she can help us with the kids which will be AMAZING! Thank you sister! We will put all of our stuff from our apartment into a storage unit until we move. That way, when we move we have EVERYTHING we need.

Where we are going to stay is at my in laws house. They will have 2 rooms available for us and a double sink bathroom. Not a bad deal! We are so so so so thankful for them opening their home to us and creating space for us. I have a brother in law who is 7 years old and he is SO EXCITED to have another little kid in the house to play with. Joshua always talks about his Uncle Ez (Short for Ezra) and I can't wait to watch them grow up together. My in laws house will be a perfect place for our family until we get our own place. They have a big backyard, its a part of a cul de sac with a bunch of other kids ranging from ages 1 to 8 yrs old, central part of town, and a little "harry potter" play room under the stairs. The house is 2 stories but we have baby gates so that we don't have to worry about Annabelle getting up and down the stairs by herself. It is a beautiful house and its going to be a great experience.

What we are going to do once we get there is what we are still figuring out. We know that Patrick will go back to In N Out starting part time and will become full time management by Septemberish. Patrick has already applied to a few fire departments in CA trying to get hired on as an EMT but we won't hear back from them for a while. Its a LONG process to get hired on. If he doesn't get hired on Patrick is hoping to start Paramedic school by this fall through the same program he did his fire academy through. That medic school program is 3 days a week for 1 year. We haven't decided if we are going to stay living with his parents through medic school or if we will get our own apartment. We will have to see how things go and where we are financially. I will be going back to work doing hair for weddings and events. I am very excited about that. I will continue to work with the team of girls I previously worked with before I moved. In addition, I am going to branch out and make a name for myself just doing solo work. So, I will join the other ladies for weddings and events as they need me. I am also trying to build my YouTube channel making beauty, mommy and lifestyle type of videos to see if that goes anywhere. I enjoy the creativity of making videos and I have so much fun doing it. I figure, why not give it a shot. If you would like to Subscribe to my channel, please go to this link and click Subscribe! I am making it a priority to upload 1 video a week as well as continue to post on my blog a couple times a month.

That is all of the updates that I have as of now. We still have A LOT of packing to do but we still have plenty of time for that.

Thank you everyone for supporting us and for following along on our journey!