My mom however was still in New Mexico. We lived with my aunt for the first month and a half that we were here. We moved here in trips instead of renting a moving truck. I don’t know the exact number of trips back and forth that we took but it was quite a few. None however was as long as our last trip. My dad and I got up around 3:30 in the morning and headed out on the seven-hour drive to our house in New Mexico. We filled up every bit of space in our enclosed trailer and began our trip home. By the time we got back to our house in Colorado it was about a sixteen-hour day.
Moving back to Colorado turned out to be the best thing that happened to me at the time. I got to play football again even though it was for a short time. The third week of the season I tore my MCL and was out for five weeks. But the real best part came in the second semester of my senior year, during the track season. I meet the most influential and best woman in the