Out West of the Great Divide (Literally)

Sorry for the drought of updates.  I have been without the internet since June 30, making updating an impossibility.  However, I will remedy that with a whole mess of posts (maybe, depending on my ability to get online) about actually moving out here.  Here's what has happened since June 30:

1. We packed up our apartment.  This was quite a task.  We staged nearly everything in our dining room/living room to make it easier to load on the truck.

Before the truck was loaded...

2. We checked loaded the truck and checked out of our apartment on July 1.  We had initially planned to come back to Fort Wayne on July 5 to check out, because we didn't think the moving truck would arrive early enough for our 2 p.m. check out.  We were wrong.  The guys who helped us pack were extremely helpful in this.  Thanks, guys!

After the truck was loaded!

3. We spent July 1-July 5 in Kokomo saying goodbyes.  This was extremely difficult.  We will really miss our friends and family back in Indiana.

Naomi is helping Grandma Susan mow the lawn!

4. We got a new car.  Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of it.  It's a blue 2003 Jeep Liberty Limited.  Andrea's Civic had some transmission and wheel bearing problems that made it financially unwise to fix.  It turned out to be a good thing, though, because it showed us how much God provides for us through our neighbors (especially my mom and Grandpa Jay who helped us locate and purchase the vehicle, respectively).  It also will help us get around better in the winter.  Apparently, 4-wheel drive is sort of necessary in the mountains in the winter!

5. Andrea, Naomi, Tobi, and I move to Colorado.  We started out the morning of July 6, made it to Manhattan, KS (the Little Apple!) and arrived in the evening of July 7.

Here we are at our new home.

I think that's all I will write for now, but I wanted to let everyone know that we've made it out here safely.  In the next few posts, I will unfold some of our adventures a little further and let you guys know how it is to live in a house with no stuff for a little more than a week!