Prepping to go to Italy

We have known that we are moving to Italy since May of this year but I finally decided to update our blog about our impending move.
  I'm sorry I'm not much of a blogger or writer...ugh, hope you'll bear with me.  I am a communicator though, and love to keep in touch with those I love so thought this would be a good opportunity to do so.  Race and Juliann will also be blogging while we are in Italy; should be fun for you to get their perspective on this family adventure :)
   I don't think it has totally hit me that we will be living in another country for several months. Of course I'm going to miss everyone here but I'm also going to miss our animals!! Our dogs, chickens and barn cats will be home in the care of my parents. The rest of the 'menagerie' will be with friends-Thank you to those who will be caring for everyone.
   It's hard to know what to pack. We don't want to take too much but also don't want to not take stuff since Boeing is willing to ship 1000lbs of our belongings for us-on top of our luggage on the plane.  We also plan on buying a few things while we are there. That should be fun, right?

   Hmmm....well, I guess that's all for now. We will have an Arrivederci Party before we leave so that will probably be my next post...stay tuned...