Moving day(s)

Welcome to my scatterbrained posts of Friday night! I've just gotten my computer hooked up to the internet and I'm so excited... here's an update on our lives the past week!

Friday of last week was a whirlwind, but when Friday night came, I felt like I was home. The movers showed up at the apartment at 12 (Chad and I still didn't have keys to the new house - a funding issue on BOA's part - yeah, that was just part of the fun)... but my wonderful mom and dad took over and got the movers going. Meanwhile, Chad is at the new house meeting with landscaping and helping the fridge guys get it inside. We had lots of help to get moved in on Friday and it was such a blessing. Dave Stewart came and happily piled tons of clothes and a few boxes into cars and then came to the new house. He and my dad unloaded 3 cars while Chad continued to meet with the landscapers and I attempted to put Nathan to sleep. He was not sure about sleeping in a room with no blinds... when I was needed downstairs, Dave stepped in with Nathan and sang him almost to sleep - major cool points to you my friend! The unpacking never missed a beat and by 5ish, the truck, POD and 3 vehicles were all unpacked. Then came the hard part - emptying the boxes. That's when Kendra and Kaz showed up, dinner in hand. We ate and then Kendra did what Kendra does best... attacked our kitchen boxes. Kaz did a little of everything and helped everyone around him. Meanwhile, dad and Chad are hanging blinds, Dave was either eating dinner with Nic and Noah, taking Bailey for a walk, unpacking boxes, or some other task that needed to be done. Mom was either playing with Nathan or unpacking boxes and I was wandering from pile to pile... ADD in full bloom... loads of fun. Over the weekend and during the next few days, we managed to get lots unpacked and had a big pile of boxes. My parents were such a huge help with Nathan and projects galore. Here are some pics from the moving weekend...

Here's the most random sight of Friday night. Kendra pulled this out of a box and set it on the island... we both commented that if we were Emily, our wonderful friend, we would take a picture and write a blog about it... so Emily, here's to you, and your splendid blogging abilities! How many items can you identify?

Bailey and Nathan weren't at all phased by the choas around them... they just continued to be their laid back selves! What troopers!

Chad carried me in over the threshold...

Dave got jealous and wanted to carry Chad over the threshold

and he almost busted out our storm door with Chad's monster sized feet


Then Chad carried Dave the opposite direction over the threshold... what message was that communicating?

working hard

sorry for the blurriness!


Bailey needed a little daddy lovin.

So far, the new place is great. I admit I haven't taken any pictures of the house (I'll try to get to that this weekend), but we're really enjoying it. Nathan is really thriving here and is into so much (you'll have to read his blog entry for those updates). It did take me 4 days to find the box with my underwear in it, but now that we've found that and finally we got Internet hooked up, I am good to go! Okay, so I was doing great before, but the Internet is really the icing on the cake! Once we have grass, I'll consider myself a happy camper. Our yard is nothing but red clay and remember that the remnants of Hurricane Faye paid us a visit the last few days... let me tell you about the fun Bailey and I have had running a quarter mile through the driving rain to the commons area so she can pee... multiple times a day. I'm so thankful that the rain has stopped... now if the ground would dry up that would be even better... then again, sod would be great too! There will be plenty of posts on our decorating woes in the weeks to come, but for now, that's all on the house front!