5 years ago my dad and I packed up my little blue Mazda3 and drove to Provo, Utah. I was just barely 18 years old, Preston and I had just started dating seriously and we decided to move to Utah so that he and I could attend college. Growing up in a small town in Wisconsin, it was equally terrifying and exciting to leave and go somewhere 1,500 miles away, somewhere that I knew exactly two people (one of which was Preston) and a place that I had never even visited.
Now, 5 years later, Preston and I fell in love, got engaged, got married, had a baby, graduated from those colleges, sold that little blue Mazda and are moving to Virginia! We decided to sell everything we own before we go and this was something we went back and forth on SO many times. Now that we have officially decided and started the process of selling everything I'm in love with the plan. Something really cool happened where I realized that stuff was JUST STUFF! It is actually pretty liberating to get rid of everything and start again. Deciding to sell everything and only take what fits in our car has actually turned this cross country move into more of an adventure rather than a big stressful moving process. I love the idea of just packing up the car with a few belongings and leaving Utah and starting again somewhere new with all new people and places and things. Preston and I are no strangers to moving, this move will be our 9th move in 5 years (insert huge eyed emoji) and we are very excited about it.
Preston is going to Virginia in a little over a month to meet with his recruiters and do some interviews and look for housing and then our actually move will happen in December after Preston finishes his last semester. We aren't completely positive on the actual date yet, but Harper and I will fly out to Virginia together and Preston and his mom will be driving from Utah to Virginia a few days later because lets be honest the idea of doing a 36 hour drive with a two year old makes us want to poke our eyes out. I know many of you are probably thinking..."Our family has done longer drives than that with more children" and to you I say congrats, you're better than us ;) We are very excited to start this new phase of our lives. We keep joking that we are starting "our real adult lives" because for all of our marriage, one or both of us have been students. Now we get to get real adult furniture and buy a house and start Preston's real career and we can't wait! So here's to new changes, we are so ready for it!
"and suddenly you know, it's time to begin again and trust in the magic of new beginnings.."
