Officially Moved

So these past couple of weeks and weekends have been full of packing and loading our stuff out of our apartment here in San Diego and unpacking it into our house in Corona. Then over Thanksgiving weekend, instead of having Turkey, mash potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and all the other good stuff, we cleaned, scrubbed, painted, and shampooed the carpets of our old apartment (no stop) Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I was bummed at first with not getting Thanksgiving dinner and not getting to go black Friday shopping, but I am ok with it now.

So ya, the weekend before last a crazy/not funny/funny/humbling thing happened to us. We had loaded up our friends trailer and truck and were on our way to Corona when we started to hear funny noises and the truck started to jerk a bit. So we pulled over and Robert check a few things and said everything seemed fine. (BTW before leaving San Diego we had prayed that we would get to Corona and back.) So we drive some more and now as we are going up a hill the engine was revving but the trucks speed was dropping and it wouldn't change gears. So we ended up pulling over because Robert thought he should check the transmission fluid. So he checked it and it was so empty that nothing registered on the dip stick (crazy thing also was that same morning he had checked the oil and same thing it was empty too, he had to put 5 quarts of oil in the truck and it takes 6). Luckily some friends of ours were on their way to a concert up north and had been following behind us, so they took Robert to a store and he put fluid in the truck and we started driving again. But a little ways down the road it began acting up again so we pulled over, in the middle of no where. We didn't know what to do so we prayed and then started making phone calls. After a few hours, a amazing friend from Corona showed up and took the trailer to our house in Corona. Then we attempted to limp the truck along to Corona and while all this was going on wonderful friends from San Diego drove up to Corona to pick us up and drive us back to San Diego. So our prayers were answered, just not in the way we had expected.

I am so thankful that we have so many wonderful and caring friends that are willing to drop what they are doing and help out at a minutes notice. These last few weeks I have really been humbled by peoples kindness. I am extremely sad to be leaving San Diego and the many kindred spirits we have met here but I am hopefully that this change in our life will open many more blessings into our lives and we will have the opportunity to share the kindness that has been shown to us with others..