Making the Move

After packing up most of our stuff in our town home, moving it all into boxes and fitting it between both our parents house, we were left homeless before Tyler set out to leave to Colorado. Luckily, my parents were kind enough to let us stay with them, even with our boxes of stuff lying around in their basement until we were able to pack the car up. Since I work at the elementary school, I had to stay behind and finish up the school year before I could head off to join Tyler for the summer. This meant we had to make it one month apart before being together again. Yup, that's right, one WHOLE month. I thought I about died when I had to make it a week apart over spring break, let alone a whole month. I knew it was gonna be tough! On May 4th, Ty set off bright and early that Saturday morning to make the drive to Colorado caravanning with some of the other guys from the sales team. Off he went and there I stayed. One whole month...apart.

Thankfully, my parents are the best and my staying with them was of course far better than having to stay home alone. I worked...a lot, went to zumba...a lot, caught up on all my TV shows (it was a nice change actually having TV instead of just Netflix)...a lot, and exercised...a lot. That's basically what my days consisted of in between spending time with my parents, my sister and her cute family, my brother and his newly cute wife, and the other lonely wife left alone for the month, my good friend Camille Griffin and her cute little girl. You can see I really didn't have much excitement, but I will admit it was nice spending time with my family, it was just hard missing my husband.

On the other hand, after getting to Colorado and realizing the apartments we were supposed to stay in were not quite what we had expected...talk about drug land, unsafe, and dirty. Tyler and Brandon (Camille's husband) along with Brandon's dad spent the whole next day searching for a new place for us to live only to realize that night that in fact, we weren't even going to end up staying in Colorado. Talk about change of plans? Um, just slightly...huge change. Apparently Colorado Springs wasn't ready for the team to sale in and Garbage Man (the company MSI is selling for) convinced our team of married couples to make the journey all the way to Minnesota to start selling for the summer. Plymouth, Minnesota was now going to become our new home.

Handling this news while being apart from Tyler wasn't exactly the easiest thing for me. Especially considering the fact that we were going to have to share an apartment with someone else... This was not settling news for me, but after many late night phone calls and tears, I came to peace with idea knowing that the Lord would not have made it so easy for us to go away this summer if it wasn't where we were meant to be. That sure didn't make it easy, but I knew it was the right thing.

After lots of changing around, it was decided that Tyler and I would live with the only single guy on the team. Single being a temporary word for him because he is now engaged to be married at the end of August :) Blake Kelley was actually one of my really good friends in high school so I had no problem accepting him as a roommate other than the fact that it would be slightly weird being a newlywed.  Guess I didn't have a choice but to accept it and knowing Blake pretty well and being the awesome friend that he is, it made it a lot easier.

Finally settled into our apartments while adjusting to being alone, Tyler did pretty well the first month of his summer selling career. But we both struggled near the end of being apart for so long. You never realize just how much you depend on one another until you're apart and don't have someone to just hold your hand or sit by you on the couch at night after a long day. We did however make it and finally it was May 30th and it was time for me to fly out and join Tyler in our temporary home!

Being grumps and not wanting a picture!

Brookie was at her last day of school

 My sister and her two kids took me to the airport that afternoon and as sad as I was to leave my family for the summer, I could not wait to see my husband! (Thanks sister for the ride!)

I was so excited to FINALLY see them open the gate!

Of course just because the wait had already been long enough, it had to be dragged out just a little bit more though. After checking in through security and making it to my gate, I get the lovely news that my flight had been delayed. I was supposed to fly out of SLC at 4:40, make a quick layover in Denver at 6, hop on another plane that was set to depart from there at 6:40, and arrive in Minneapolis at 9:50. Things sure did take a lot longer than that! I didn't leave SLC until 6, making me miss my connecting flight in Denver. Luckily, they had another plane leaving Denver flying into Minneapolis that night. After eating expensive airport food for dinner and a long wait, I finally made it on the plane and into Minneapolis at 1:30 that morning.

Even though Tyler had his morning meetings and I expected him to be in a big hurry to get home and to bed, being the gentleman he is, there he was waiting for me by the baggage claim with a rose in his hand, welcoming me with open arms! We had to wait about another half hour before we were able to actually get my luggage since it was raining so hard outside it was hard for them to get the bags off the plane, but we got them and back to our apartment we went. Finally together again, not caring that it was finally 3 in the morning when we walked through the door.

SO happy to be together again. Ty took me out to Applebee's the next night since we  couldn't really go when I got in  so late

Thanks to both our families for helping us move and especially to my parents for letting me invade the empty nest again :) Love you all!!