Serendipity Lane: We're in Wyoming!

Well hello there! We've made it to Wyoming alive and in one piece! I'm dropping in to give you an update on how things are going for us.

We left on a Friday and spread out the drive over 4 days. We arrived the following Monday and immediately started unpacking all our stuff. I drove in my car with our boys and Matt drove the Uhaul. To give me a break from all three kids we would rotate out Levi and Jaxon riding with Matt in the Uhaul. They loved being with daddy in the "elephant truck" as they called it. There was an elephant on the Uhaul.

Matt starts school tomorrow and he's excited to get started on more classes. He has class every day so we are going to miss having him around as much. But we just have to keep our goal in mind and we'll get through it. Next week is his last week working remotely for his job in Dallas. We thought he could last through the end of September but with all that Matt has to do to get into PA school it was just too much. Matt is registered for the GRE and we're praying that he'll do well the first time. That test isn't cheap!!

I'm not going to lie and say this has been easy for me. I'm really missing home right now. I miss my house. I miss my yard. I miss my friends. I miss everything about Texas. I opened my Instagram account recently and one of the last pictures I took was of the boys playing in the sprinklers. I just started crying because I miss everything so badly. I'm trying to keep a positive attitude about our situation and I'm trying to make new friends.

That's another thing. I think I'm a friendly person and I'm not shy by any means. But making new friends is sometimes hard. You have to explain your story a million times and it can be difficult to find people that you really jive with. I want to find people I have stuff in common with and I'm really going to put my best effort forward. But is it weird that a part of me doesn't want new friends? Just because I miss my friends at home and they already know me and know my stories and my life and it was just easier.

So I'm really trying and we'll see how it goes over the next few months.

Levi starts school this next week. I went to register him and I was told that if it gets below 0 degrees that's when the kids will stay inside. My jaw hit the floor! 0 degrees people! Holy freakin' cow! That is a whole different kind of cold. I think Levi will be the first one to go back inside and gladly sit at his desk. We also have him registered for soccer here. The season doesn't last as long in Texas but Levi is for sure ready to get out there and play again.

Colten hasn't been sleeping well since we got here. Last week was really hard for all of us in that respect. At home Colten would sleep perfectly. He had his own room and loved all the animals on his walls. We're not sure if he was just scared about being in a new place or if he was teething or what exactly but Colten for sure has had a difficult first week here. We've let him cry it out the last few nights so hopefully that will make things better for him. Last night he didn't even cry when he went to sleep. Maybe we're making progress.

Jaxon is just excited to have his cousins to play with. The first few days Jax would say he wanted to go back to our "little house" but we just explained that someone else lives there now. At Matt's school they have a preschool program for super cheap and so I think we're going to get him enrolled in that. It will be nice for me to only have 1 child at home. It has been several years since I've only had 1 kiddo around. Plus, Jax will be excited to go to school like Daddy and Levi do.

I still have a few boxes to unpack and go through. When I'm all finished and have everything set up perfectly I'll so some pictures of the new digs! 5 of us are in 2 bedrooms and sharing 1 bathroom. I'm using every square foot and maximizing as much storage as possible.

I miss you all in Texas! I'll leave you with some pictures I took along the way to Wyoming.

Have an awesome week!