Back for a Visit- June 25, 2011

After two weeks at the new house, we came back for a brief visit.  We had weddings, birthday parties, friendship day, a beach trip and car repairs all in the span of a few days!

Jeff lovingly changed the headlight in my car, which oddly involved removing a tire.  What a good brother!

Nana, Emily & Sarah at Javier & Christy's wedding reception.  Emily was an altar server during the Mass.

Lincoln's 5th birthday party!  

Cousins and Cards- June 17, 2011

TJ, Sarah, Emily & Julia play cards on the sun porch.

Home, Sweet Home- June 10, 2011

After a long day of driving on the 9th, we arrived while there was still daylight, which was good since we had no lamps.  The house only has a few overhead lights, but I found some vintage lights on the sun porch and plugged them in on the mantle.  This proved to be exciting, as I blew a fuse and caused a nice spark show.  Burning down the house would be bad.  Then, we had a hail storm.  Such a welcoming state.

The movers arrived bright and early on the 10th.  They wisely added another man to the team.  It was over 100 degrees, and we have no A/C, so those guys were troopers.  They finished around 6:00 PM, and we were left with the daunting task of unpacking.

Daniel has breakfast in the kitchen while we wait for the movers to arrive with our furniture.

Emily's room came with a complete bed, a desk, a bookcase, some spiffy shades, and Hedwig.  Michael, the previous owner, was moving to a much smaller house, so he left most of the furniture in his younger son's room for Emily.  They had discussed this over breakfast one morning in April.

Sadly, we scared the birds away that had worked so hard building this nest.

Here comes the truck!

Wallace greets us with a huge smile!  The guys all live in the area, so it was great fun talking to them about our new city.

The first thing off the truck, chairs for the girls.  Thankfully, Greg had a TV up here already, so we had that to occupy Daniel (and the girls) while the movers unloaded.

Krispy Kreme- June 9, 2011

Our final breakfast was a good one!

Pack it Up, Pack it In- June 8, 2011

Oh, how naive we were.  The plan was to load up the truck and then head out on our way to the new house, stopping to spend the night at Debbie & Scott's house.  The movers arrived that morning, and started working hard labeling non-boxed items and taking furniture apart.  Around 1:00 PM, we started thinking maybe we underestimated the time frame.  Wallace the Mover told me this would be an all day task.  So, we figured we'd get to  Debbie's later than we had anticipated, no problem.  Well, at 10:30 PM, they were wrapping it up, exhausted.  We had a great team of four hardworking guys, and we bid them farewell, with Friday set as the delivery day.

Daniel's 2 Faves- June 7, 2011

Daniel said good-bye to two of his favorite things . . . the dishwasher and Miss Ashley.  It was a sad day.

Boxed In! June 6, 2011

The packers arrived on Monday, June 6th. They packed for two days, then on Wednesday we were scheduled to be loaded, with our stuff arriving sometime between Friday and Monday. Needless to say, we were hoping for Friday! The girls spent the two days with the Harrelson family, enjoying the pool and fun with friends. They also went to see a movie with Nana and had a sleepover at her house. Daniel just wandered around wondering where his toys were.