Mr. and Mrs. Awkward

So a day after we got back to the big TC, Team Freed hit the road again, this time for Denver CO, and our Friend Ben's wedding. Now one thing about Ben and Dana is that they live in a state of awkwardness.
Ben is an awkward kid who finds awkward things funny. It's great; atleast he doesn't take himself too seriously :) So we went to the wedding, which was a little bit awkward, but then, it was perfect. Speaking of awkward, we were going to get Ben a box with a hole cut in it for a wedding present, but ended up getting him a musical card instead. Yay for Mr. and Mrs. Ben "awkward" Ewing. We love you guys.

THE MOVE! pt. 2

Saturday was the day of the move. We set our alarms to go off at 3:30 Eastern time with the hopes of leaving by 4am. We were close to that time at least. We were on the road leaving Atlanta for for home at about 4:20am. An early morning to say the least. Remember that we were heading for the Midwest which meant we would be in the Central zone and that we actually woke up at 2:30 in that time zone. We were very excited at the beginning of the day. A new adventure lay in front of us and we had to drive to chase it down. The biggest disappointment of the morning was that we were hoping to have one last Chick-Fil-A breakfast along the way and did not see one on a highway sign as we drove.
Luckily we had walkie-talkies with us so we each came up with a call name (Wilder-Loud Mouth and April-Hurricane) so we could communicate throughout the trip. We also called a lot of people on our cell phones to help keep us awake since we were in different cars. It was a fun trip but a long trip; something I would not want to do again by myself.
About seventeen hours later and about six states we arrived in Des Moines for the night to stay with April's brother and his family. It was so fun to get to see family again and to know that we will be close to most of them now. We played with our nieces and nephew for a while and then had to go to bed for the night. It was great to go to bed in the Midwest again!

THE MOVE! pt. 1

What a long week! We've been preparing mentally to move back to Minnesota for months but it still seemed to sneek up on us. I think as we longed to be back home with our family and friends we slowly started to make friends in Atlanta and it began feeling a little bit like home (although it would never fully be home to us). We spent the few weeks prior to the move trying to fit in everything that we hadn't done in the year and a half that we had lived in ATL. Unfortunatally we put that off too much and missed out on a lot of things. I guess we'll just have to go back for a visit.
The pods that we were using to move were dropped off on Wednesday and we started loading them that night. Matt and Janey came over to help us, which was huge, and we got most of our furniture and a lot of boxes done before trivia night started at 8pm. Thursday was my last day of work! They let me leave early. That night Dan and Jen came to help us finish up packing the pods. We had pretty much everything loaded by about 8 again. It was so great to have the help so that the packing wasn't too prolonged. Thursday was also the day that the battery on the Accord died. Not really was we needed as were in the process of moving but at least it gave us Friday to get a new one. Friday was a long day. It felt like a summer day in Atlanta even though it was only the middle of May. Hot and Humid. We had to get a new battery for the Accord get the trailer from U-Haul and finish packing everything into the trailer that we would need for the next few months. It took pretty much the whole day to finish packing and then get the entire apartment cleaned and ready for us to leave the next day. We were so excited to be done with everything including having our air mattress set up for us so sleep on that night by about 5 or 6. Then we went out for dessert with TJ and Melissa our fellow midwesterners. After that it was tiem for an early night in bed so we could leave in the morning.
We are going to miss everyone so much.