Stevens: Our family tale: Shutdown!

In case you were living under a rock and missed it.....the government shut down a few weeks back.
With the shut down in full swing, Colt's job got put on hold until the government reopened. We had been in San Diego for a short 2 weeks, when we had to pack up everything and load back up the car and head "home". The only problem with this is that we technically don't have a home. I mean we are still residents of Colorado and all of our information and our house is there, but our houses is rented out. Oh and the drive back to Colorado from San Diego would have been way to far. So because of our gypsy life style we have adopted Grandpa and Grandma Stevens' home as our "in between home" and they have so graciously welcomed us.
We spent about two weeks in southern UT during the shutdown. We had lots of fun. We were also able to get a lot of things done that we needed to. We found new doctors for all the kids. We were able to get some plans going to deal with our storage unit. We were able to get Bobby all squared away with his Cub Scouts stuff. We were able to organize and repack the right clothes that we need for San Diego.

Cub Scouts!!!! I come from a family of all girls, so this whole scouting thing is new to me. Luckily for Bobby and I, Colt is an Eagle Scout, Grandma raised 5 Eagle Scouts, and she is the Cub Scout leader in her ward!!! We worked hard and Bobby was able to earn his Bobcat while we were in UT. He was able to attend his first pack meeting and his first den meetings. I think after my quick run down of what I need to do as scouting mom, I can handle this and it will be FUN!

We were able to be in town for Grandma Gubbler's 80th birthday. It was so fun to see her with all her family and friends. People came from far and wide to wish her a happy birthday. It was also nice to catch up with extended family that we don't get to see very often.

After a the government reopened Colt went back to San Diego and the kids and I stayed for a few more days. I wanted to stay so Bobby could go to Day Camp. He had such a fun time. We also had a few doctors appointments.

We also had to make a very sad choice. Our dear sweet Lola was starting to get the short end of the stick with all of our traveling. Every time we go to UT our inside dog has to become an out side dog. When ever we left the hometel she had to come with us, but when we got to where ever we were going she had to stay in the car, because dogs aren't always allowed. She now has a new home, but thankfully she was adopted into a loving home and we will get to see her whenever we can. Thanks Nana and Tata it makes us all feel better that she will be well taken care of!

Lucky for me Colt's brother Brice offered to help me drive with the kids to San Diego. I was glad he was with me, because on the freeway there was an accident and a huge traffic jam that was backed up for a long way. We pulled out our maps (GPS) and found a detour down a back road, if he wasn't with me I would have just been sitting in the row of brake lights with 5 tired kids. We finally made it to the "hometel" at 2 am.