Move

Last week we moved into our new house.  It was such a long exhausting process.  We closed on the house March 14th and that afternoon started right away taking things over.  Load by load we made progress.  Garrett and I continued all week long taking over boxes and putting things away slowly.  JJ would help us in the evening with taking over more loads.  It was really hard to keep up with the housework and keep up with Lucy's school work and other daily tasks while I focused so much time on moving.  Garrett was a good helper and would play so well while I loaded and unloaded things.

 We got a few small new pieces of furniture and we also took time to put them together.  It is fun to be able to pick out new things for the house and as we put more and more of our things into the house it was fun to see it all come together.  Friday my Mom came up and helped move over all the kitchen stuff.  That was so helpful because the kitchen is such a big job! She helped me get it all put away and then that evening I cleaned out the kitchen in the town home. 

 Saturday March 23rd we moved the furniture over.  By then we pretty much had everything over to the house minus the furniture.  My parents and brother Jordan came up to help us move.  It was so helpful! My Dad brought his truck and trailer that we used to load things onto.   We were so happy to have nice weather as we were moving.  We had a very cold week and so to have the sun shinning was so happy.  When we had one of the loads all ready we all rode on the back of the truck and trailer as we drove 2 streets over to the new house.  My Mom said she felt like she was in a parade and we should start waving.  We had a good laugh, since the weather was so nice there were lots of people outside and they probably thought we looked funny!

We had lots of help from our ward which was great! We had everything moved over in about a hour.  My parents stayed to have dinner with us and then they headed home.  We got to work putting the beds together and try to get things semi organized for the night.  We spent most of this week as well wrapping things up at our town home that we rented.  I went over several times and did some cleaning and JJ worked hard patching up the nail holes. The kids were such good sports as we kept them up late all week long trying to get things done.  All those little things added up and I felt very overwhelmed several times just thinking there was so much to do, and there still is! We are slowly getting there and we still have tons to do at the new house.  We are glad we are now officially done in the town home and be moved into our new house!