Hitting the Road

My last substantive post was at T minus four weeks until leaving Minneapolis. We've successfully departed, but plans for moving into the new house and taking off on a backpacking trip have been derailed by Tor contracting bilateral pneumonia. Bad enough at the best of times, his illness has turned the move into a logistical nightmare--but at least we weren't five miles into the backcountry when his fever hit 105.5 degrees. We're comfortable at Grandma and Grandpa's in Lake Tahoe, and Tor is on the mend.

To recap our end times in Minnesota:

• Lars returned from New York.

Rocking his welcome-home-DaDa t-shirt

Note Tor's mattress in the background, because...

• We all moved into the living room for the final week. The house got boxed up and cleaned.

"Ready for school! But I feel like I've forgotten
something...let me check my to-do list."

The parents' floor nest is always greener

Enjoying stairs while we've got them

• And we loaded our material goods into containers and said farewell to dear friends.

"Where do these kids go?"

Madeline is now a big sister...and we just missed Baby Greta's arrival!!

Getting some artistic pointers from an old hand

One of the flock

Tight with his little buddy Owen

"Hey Sonia, whaddaya think that cloud looks like?"

Perhaps the hardest goodbyes for Tor: DJ, Ulises...

...and Melissa