Ashley, Faith & Logan move to Lakewood

We moved Ashley, Faith & Logan to Lakewood this week. They have a really nice apartment with a big living room, a fireplace, nice kitchen, new carpets, swimming pool, hot tub, playgrounds, and tanning bed (yes, a tanning bed!) in a gated community. Getting them there was not easy though. We had everything go wrong on our trip, but everything somehow kept turning out right. Dad says its about “stories and relationships” so we built lots of them. The fuel pump went out in Ellensburg in the van, so Dad and Bradley and Tanner put a new one in on the side of the freeway. Thank goodness, the Schucks in town had the parts. The babies played in the dirt. It was hot and yucky. But it got done. What should have been a 4 1/2 hour trip took 8.

Then we couldn’t get to the apartment complex before they closed at 5 pm because Ashley had to sign her lease before we could move in. We had to work with the complex, in spite of lack of phone signal, and after some work, they found a maintenance man who was nice enough to meet us on his off-work time to let us in at 8 pm when we got there. Someone was parked in Ashley’s assigned parking so we thought the maintenance man said to park anywhere, but apparently he meant anywhere that wasn’t assigned to someone else. When we woke up Friday morning, Ashley’s car had been towed. When we called, they wanted $320 to get the car. So we went to the managers and they arranged for us to get it out free. We just had to drive an hour each way to pick it up. In the meantime, the POD people called. The POD, which we thought would be delivered at 7 am would come between 4 and 7 pm. We were on a really tight schedule and our plan was to unload then help Ashley upack all day Friday and leave late Friday afternoon to get home Friday night because Bradley had to work Saturday morning at 11 am. At 8 pm, when the POD finally came, we couldn’t get the gate to open with the code the manager had given us. Finally some neighbors helped us. We got the POD unloaded and left Ashley with a giant mess at 11 p.m. and we arrived back in Spokane at 5 am.

Faith and Logan were so cute. The day before we moved, Faith said, “Grandma, I’m moving tomorrow.” Then, the morning after we arrived at the complex, Logan got in our van and tried to buckle his seatbelt and told Dad, “Grandpa, go home.” Then later that day, he started screaming to Ashley, “I want to go home.” I’m so flattered that home was still with us. We're so grateful to have had the time with Ashley, Faith & Logan live with us, building stories and relationships. Thanks Ashley, for putting up with us. We are so grateful for our time together.