Adventure.

(idea # 300 something that represents your husband's profession)

Our first adventure came a little over 4 years ago. Paul decided shortly after Van was born he needed to start our own business. It was hard with a new baby, but somehow we did it. Paul worked his tail end off. We rented U-Haul's and got it done. Sometimes we had help, but mostly Paul did it by himself.

Shortly after starting Paul decided to expand out of the Salt Lake area. We decided to do a Logan route. My SIL came with us with the U-Haul full of machines, and it was yet another adventure. It was one of the longest days, and we said "never again!". Of course when Paul said it he didn't mean it, just I did! =)

We started thinking not to long after that of where else we could expand. It was decided Twin Falls, Idaho was the place to go. This adventure was one of our biggest. It took multiple trips in U-Haul's, and of course A LOT of hard work. (Did I forget to mention...Van just happened to HATE her car seat! She spent lots of time crying, poor lil thing I know!) This trip we just had the help of our locator's to guide us. Looking back I still don't know how we did it. Paul and I can look back on our 1st adventure and laugh, but the 2nd and 3rd adventure, I'm not sure we are at that point yet.

When Paul mentioned expansion again for this year...I was hesitant. I have tried to keep my happy attitude, but when he mentioned U-Haul I knew what that entailed. There would be lots of hard work, and of course the unexpected problems that ALWAYS seem to happen to us.

It did start off better this time, because Van has outgrown her hatred for the car seat. Oh, and we were only going to Provo. =) She had a blast riding in the BIG truck, and told me that we really need to buy one.We started early, and all had smiles on our faces. We ran in to problems right off, but we all seemed to be taking them well...except Paul had a few melt downs. =) The reservation on the U-Haul was screwed up, the delivery man showed up almost 2 hours late, the lock on one of the brand new machines broke, and after I left to work I took the tools Paul needed. Oops!

What is the saying "when given lemons, make lemonade!", and that is just what we did. We ate delicious cheeseburgers while we waited for the delivery man. We played DDR, and I rocked it! And we just enjoyed each other's company.Most importantly it went well, because we had ShanER. Seriously we COULD NOT have done it without him. Shane has saved our bacon...sooo many times. I feel really lucky to have Shane live close! He takes an interest in what Paul is doing, and I think that it's cool that brothers can be best friends.

Can you guess what I said after this adventure was done? Never again! At least Savannah was still smiling in the end. =)