a story about being deserted.

by the time you're reading this, p-ray & i are probably well on our way to utah-land.  you see, a couple times a year we make the trek down south to visit all three of my sisters & my mom & dad who all live down there.  yup, my entire immediate fam-damily lives in ute-ahrd.

so why is my little family of three estranged up here by our lonesomes in the pnw?  what brought us up to seattle you ask?  well, first of all you'd be asking the wrong question.  the correct question would be:

"why did your whole family leave YOU & move away from the most beautiful state in all the land!?"

i don't know.  maybe because they hate us.

it all started like twenty years ago with my sister shelley deciding to go to byu.  she of course met a utah man, married him, & eventually they settled there.  heidi was next, then gina.  marrying & then moving.  lame.  after they all spit out a few kids, my mom & dad felt like they needed to follow suit & migrated to zion.  with no regard to sam & i, who had only been married six months at the time & were struggling to stay afloat.

"we don't even love you," they said "please don't come visit."  and then they left.

well, i don't give up on family quite as easily as that & i'm fighting to keep this family together.  as the baby of the bunch, it's the least i can do.  at least twice a year, my little family goes out of our way to visit the family who so heartlessly abandoned us.

so that's where we are.  in utah, visiting my family.

and this story?

a slight exaggeration.  my family is working hard on trying to convince us to move down there but as of yet, to no avail.  we like our lives in the northwest & don't foresee packing up & moving three states down to the land of cafe rio & salty lakes.  but we miss them very very much & try to get down there as much as possible to visit.  and they come up often too.  because they do love us, very very much.

moral of the story?  p-ray & i are on vacation & my blogging may or may not be sporadic.  because when i'm vacationing with my family the interwebz comes second & all things christensen come first.  you know how it is.  but you know i can't quit you so chances are i'll be around posting a pic or a post here & there.

so that's that.

just because i'm blogging from three states away doesn't mean i don't still love your votes!