Moving Day

Moving day finally arrived last Tuesday! Our plans to move in over the weekend fell apart when we realized the house was no where near ready. Plus, I was behind on packing. Daniel's brother and a few guys from the ward came to help us. Daniel started moving stuff over by himself around 1pm and didn't finish for the day until around 10. It was a long day! But they got 90% of our stuff moved and we are slowly trying to settle in to the new house.

 

One of the guys that helped has a trailer he uses for his 4 wheelers. They loaded that thing as full as they could!

We borrowed a truck from my uncle and one of the other guys had his truck, plus our van. We had all the vehicles packed! We always think we don't have too much stuff until you start pulling it all out. Holy cow. I even cleaned and threw away/donated a lot!

On moving day and a few days after there was a lot of movie watching going on.

 

And coloring. :)

Most of the stuff went out in the rec room so my living room was tolerable. I am still trying to decided where I want the furniture to go. I've moved everything around 3 or 4 times and can't get it where I like!

It was so late by the time we got the kids to bed Tuesday night that we just put them on their mattresses on the floor instead of finding and assembling their beds. They stayed there for a few nights and we finally got the beds put together last night! Addie and Dia will be sharing this room (that will eventually be Dia's) and Johnny and the toys will be in the other room (that will eventually be my craft room). Last night Johnny didn't want to sleep by himself so we kept his mattress on the floor in between his sister's beds.

I have to include Izzy. She made the move with us. I feel bad for her because she was super stressed out all day with strangers coming in and out of the house making lots of noise. It doesn't help that 2 months ago her sister ran away and never came back. Now she is in this new house all alone. We are trying to show her lots of extra love!

Here is where most of the stuff that we don't use every day went. All of my crafty stuff is in that bedroom. We are NOT looking forward to going in here to organize!

 

Everyday we empty more and more boxes. The kitchen, master and Dia's room are starting to look organized. We still have lots of work to do! I am really looking forward to finishing the work downstairs so we can start on the upstairs!