On a random weekend in February, the 12th, 2010 to be exact, we decided to crash a friends pre planned camping trip out at Polihale State Beach Park. It was awesome to meet new friends, spend time with old friends, see the kids dig giant holes in the sand, throw the frisbee, roast marshmallows, and sleep under the most beautiful star filled sky.
Little did we know things would be changing for our little family of 5. (2 kids 1 dog) in two short weeks. Sean was to attend Roberts surprise birthday party in Seattle Feb 27, and it happened that he was able to arranged two job interviews at the same time. One in Dallas, TX and the other in San Francisco, CA. I will leave out all the fun facts and cut to the end. By Friday Feb. 26 Sean had two job offers waiting in his email inbox. Both companies had asked him to respond ASAP! Sean scheduled to fly home on Monday Feb. 29, and the kids and I picked him up at 4pm. We spent all night jumping from TX to CA and back again and on Tuesday morning we contacted our new employer. (I am the jumper in the family and really I'm just extremely lucky I married a man that builds safety nets in record time!)
So while chatting with Sean's new boss we agree that Sean would start work on March 29th. This gave us one month to call the movers, arrange to send the Subaru to Salt Lake City, UT, hold a garage sale, have a princess fashion show 5th birthday party for Kalia with 17 of her closest friends, visit with Tutu and Papa Perkins, Have 2 going away parties, finish school and work and finally give the dog a bath before we got on that very long flight back to the mainland. Once in Portland, OR we drove to our place in Bend for a week of gutters and fire safety tree clearing, some sleeding/skiing, and a weekend of garage sales. We drove to SLC on March 25, we stayed the night in Boise, ID perfectly timing a visit with Holly Cook our lovely Kauai friend who's awesomeness touches everyone around her. We arrived in Kaysville just in time for Audreys' 4th birthday party! Sean left Sunday morning and the four remaining Perkins are camping out at mom and dads until April 17 when Sean will fly back, we will all pile into the car and set out on our week long trek through beautiful Southern Utah, over to Durango for the ultimate train ride to Silverton, then down through ABQ and across West Texas!!!!!
It's true we are headed for Dallas, Texas. It all seems crazy at this moment but we are a wanderlust family and we seem to take to the road with the slightest provocation. We are healthy and happy and ready for a new adventure. Most of all we are thankful for the opportunities we have in our lives and whatever happens we are all in. Go Team Perkins!
(I recently realized we may have taken the teamwork analogy a bit to far when while waiting to cross a busy street with other crosswalkers, I noticed Kalia was checking out the competition to get to the other side first. A lovely yet unknowing man carrying his baby in a carseat was crossing quickly and Kalia while keeping one eye on the man and the other eye on the curb sped up and jumped a fair distance to make it across first. She glanced up at me still holding my hand and with a smile and a very quiet voice said "we are the winners" :O))
