STEP 2 — Getting used to the rig… Checking out everything….

3 Happy Hooligans —- Incredibly happy to call this rig their new home….

We went to get our propane tank checked out and the nice gentleman there informed me that the gauge on my tank doesn’t actually WORK in the heat of Arizona… so I have a FULL TANK (blessing in disguise because propane is not cheap)….  He gave me a TON of pointers and offered to help me in any way in order to “get to know” my rig and make sure everything was working right…..  I thanked him for his time… and after chatting with him about our trip to Arizona… then our year in Havasu… and our new adventure ahead of us we were on our way… So off we go.

The motor home is now just a background figment in our lives.  We see it all the time and the kids are excited about naming the rig….  They had been throwing out all sorts of crazy names when they finally settled upon the name of “Stella Luna” based on a book that I read to them all the time… “Stella” for short.

The kids have been helpful at selling things and one day I caught the oldest happy hooligan by the road (he’s not ALLOWED near the road because it’s a busy street) — but there he was when I looked over… with his “FOR SALE” sign (and price tags on his hats because he wanted to help sell things for our trip to New York (bless his heart… he makes me happy). He did pitch his sale to a few people who came to buy other things ($90 for one hat and $100 for the other) but he had no buyers… I tried to suggest that those prices were a little high for the items he was selling but he said the right buyer will pay him.

We’ve just spent a lot of time looking in cabinets, under the hood, under the rig… and trying to sell things that we KNOW for sure we wouldn’t be taking with us on this trip…..

Family. Fun. Day.

We have so many awesome adventures. I have well over 10,000 photos from the past 6 months.
I don’t share that many… but I’ll throw out a few…. 🙂

Recently we went to a Balloon Festival (HOLY AWESOMENESS)
THEN we got the fun experience of a Rodeo & Fun Park for Kids — WOW. 😀 (Grateful)

Today was the RODEO…. more or less a big fun filled day of FREE kid activities at the rodeo.

We had a blast.

I can not express enough… the number of times…. the JOY IN THEIR FACES (and hearing their laughter) brought me to tears.

As it was last weekend at the balloon festival… I was having the same crazy emotional thing going on. I love it. and I love it. and I love it. Complete strangers might see me smiling HUGE (too huge for my face) and a couple tears run down my face as I snap a video or pictures….

It FUELS me and feeds my soul to see them so happy and watch them be so carefree — enjoying the day to the fullest.

*let’s keep out the part when Caiden got a bloody nose and Addison had a temper tantrum (a dozen times) and lets just focus on the tear jerking moment of them on the JUMPING thing where Addy did back flips and Caiden jumped with all his might to reach the skyyyyyyyy…

*still unsure about NY.

*still unsure about a way to get to NY.

*Figure we have until May to figure it out… so the research continues but no real rush on it until the semester gets closer to completion…..

(or if something PERFECT happens to DROP in front of me…. I’ll have to take up the offer)

Cheers _ world