Moving Day

     Whew! Moving is such hard work! I have never moved an entire house before and underestimated the work it would take to accomplish the task.  We were also at a disadvantage because Chris had been in LA the weekend prior to the move for work, so we lost our opportunity to have our family and friends help us with the job over the weekend.  Thursday morning was THE day.  My dad and Chris pretty much moved EVERYTHING we owned out of the house.  The two of them were responsible for loading and unloading couches, beds, dressers, the washer, dryer, boxes and anything else that was a part of our home.  Thanks to Christie, I was able to direct where things should go and finish anything that needed to be completed in the house (packing boxes, organizing, running errands, etc.) without having a certain someone "help" me. :)  It took us over 12 hours to completely finish the move.....way longer than I ever expected.  It didn't help that we had to stop in the middle to go close on our new house, in addition to monitoring baseball practice and working a family literacy night (we wore WAY too many hats that day.....who knew March 15th would be such a popular day?) .  As many people know this is only the first part of the move.  We moved in with my parents and will be here for the next 10 weeks.  Although it is weird for all 5 of us (dogs included) to be under one roof I am SO appreciative of them letting us stay here.  We had no where else to go. :(  Although we are cramping everyone's style you wouldn't know it if you talked to mom or dad.  We have our fingers crossed that the next few weeks are filled with great weather, great basketball (March Madness) and baseball, baby holding with our bestest friends, lots of laughing and opportunities we will look back on and laugh about in the future. :) We are in the home stretch now......can't wait for the 2nd part of our move...hoping it will be our final move! :)