Moving is Adventurous

Today was the big moving day we moved it all and I learned a lot. 

1. Moving is a painful and hard job to accomplish.

2. When you get all Jordan's friends together to help move life instantly becomes a comedy show. And involves strange tasks such as everything must be done shirt less. After every task you must flex your muscles and yell something awesome (all man like you know).

3. It is really hard to fast while moving. (I broke my fast...)

4. When moving a large chicken coop one does not simply carry it with seven me and one girl (me). You must lift it over your head over the fence. 

5. You will get completely covered in chicken poop.

6. Cops find it really funny when you walk down the street with chickens. It makes their day. 

7. I can kick but at moving and move everything a guy can ^_^ (Bragging about myself because I feel pretty badass)

8. Riding a bike in winter makes you get strange looks from people.

9. Moving in winter makes thing wet and icy. Which means accidents are going to happen.

10. You will get cuts and scrapes and other injuries while moving in winter.

11. My family can be called moving ninjas. We moved our entire house and un packed in a week and a half. Beat that. :) 

Moving is always an adventure especially with my family. Now off to the Little Mermaid to see a dear friend perform. 

Facebooking from a fort

Sanctuary... is a word which here means a small, safe place in a troubling world. Like an oasis in a vast desert or an island in a stormy sea. 
~Lemony Snicket

Facebooking from a fort today and its been a great time! Building one with the Gardner boys today was really fun. It made me think of a lot of great memories I have of building forts with my family when I was little. When my dad would decide to pull out all the blankets and push all of our living room and dining room furniture into the middle of the room and we would spend an evening building a fort. Or I always had bunk beds growing up and tuking some blankests in under the top mattress was a fort we often put together. Sometimes we would just build it then take it down or we might spend the night in it and make each other laugh. these are some of my best memories with my family and now I get to make some new ones with my favorite little monsters. Even though the exitement of the fort only lasted through the building process and a few minutes inside it was still nice to see the boys get exctied over a ladder, a pile of blankets and a dozen chairs. Not to mention taking a break from moving. And yet I built the fort for the boys I've been the only one in hear for the last hour. Makes me want to hide in a fort for an hour every week :)    

All of us inside :)

Mad faces because our brothers broke the fort.

Moving.

Oh the joys of moving. Really raise your hand if you enjoy packing up everything you own, putting it in a truck or trailer and then taking all of it to a different house to undo everything you just did. (If you are raising your hand please put it down you probably look very silly.) Even though I am not a fan of moving I am a fan of adventures and moving can turn out to be a good one. You are able to see the meaning for the phrase "Home is wherever I'm with you." Wherever my family is that is my home. Whether its our own home, a 900square foot rental, or a yurt. Because anywhere can become a home when it is filled with laughter, smiles, family, friends, music, and anything in between. During this moving adventure my mom made a very true and profound statement about me. After helping my mom get her new mattress and box spring (by help I mean catch them from the second story balcony of our friends house and carry them to the trailer). As we drove home my Mom says "Riah most girls are dainty and girly or total tomboys but not you. You got a good dosage of sweet and dainty and pure badass." I could really see what she meant. With dad being broken and mom having a cold Jordan and I have been most of the muscle this move. We have had a lot of experience moving and know how mom likes things done so for the most part its been painless. Mady still whines and hates to move, Jordan doesn't want to give up his man cave, and I am tired physically and mentally from moving but in the end we are all excited about moving into the "little house" as it is rightly called. Let the wind blow you to your next adventure. Signing off Riah.

Stuff...

As we are in the process of moving and packing I realize how much stuff I have. Not useful things or things I like just random stuff. The type of things that make you go "Why the heck do I have this?" or " What on earth is this thing?" Just the things that make you question yourself and your sanity. And yet I am trying to understand why I emotionally attach myself to things. Small things that I find myself keeping every time we move or purge. Somethings I can find some reason to justify keeping them such as a willow tree angel that my mom gave me that always makes me smile and reminds me that summer is coming. But I have other things like a set of wooden painted blocks with greenery and scripty vinyl words, or stuffed animals that I got from some person sometime ago. But they all have enough meaning to me that I have held on to them for one more move. Where I'm going to put all this stuff in our tiny new house I don't know but I'll find a place somewhere.

Time Fly's When You're Having Fun...

Boy its been awhile... Life has been keeping me busy and its constantly turning. Lets see since my last post I've competed in Miss Magic Valley Outstanding Teen, joined a new youth group called iConnect, gone to camp a few times, had a trip to vegas, flew for the first time alone, and we have moved. We moved to a little house on 7th ave in June of 2012, and we are now on the way to another little back on 5th ave. Its one Im quite familiar with, I've spent many summer nights in the back yard deep in discussion with my favorite people, meals eaten at the large farm table, and movie nights in the living room. A house filled with laughter, music, sweet friends and family. The Gardner's moved to 7th at the same time we did and now their renting their old house to our family. We are moving into our new house within the next week. Here is to new adventures!