We Moved!

I know, I know--old news. But you haven't seen the photos!

We moved our stuff using U-Pack. The company drops off a semi-trailer which you are responsible for loading, they pick it up a few days later and drive it to your destination, you unload your stuff, and they pick it up a few days later. Our trailer was loaded and off to CT on Thursday, June 28 (thanks in a large part to Brian, who helped Alex load furniture in the 90 degree heat while I twiddled my thumbs). We didn't follow until the next Saturday, giving us time to clean the house, take care of last minute details, and hope for the arrival of a certain baby. In the meantime...

Abby and James test drive our sleeping arrangement. They decided to stick with the air mattress and co-sleeper in the end.


Charlie finds a new bedroom.

James gets out of working by being adorable.

Our drive out to CT was uneventful for the most part. Abby had had hand, foot, and mouth disease, but she was on the tail end of it and feeling pretty good. The morning we left we noticed that Charlie had a giant head wound, undoubtedly from a last minute attempt to catch a squirrel in the back yard. It was oozing green goo and blood. Good timing Charlie, good timing. The cats hated the car, but we expected that. What we didn't expect was the copious amounts of hair that they lost. Don't worry, they didn't go bald, but they lost enough to make a sweater out of.

We stayed the night at a Quality Inn somewhere in PA. It wasn't the greatest hotel, but it allowed dogs and had a pool which allowed Abby to test out her newly purchased water wings. That night I made Charlie a make-shift cone-of-shame to wear to prevent him from scratching his head wound. He was miserable. Also that night, Alex came down with a fever, chills, and major sore throat. He was also miserable. But James and I were great!

We arrived at our new house around 5 pm the next night. We immediately made one of several trips to Ikea to purchase Abby a big-girl bed (thanks Grandma Mettler!).

Assembling the big-girl bed. It will be awesome once the part that I broke and had to re-order arrives in the mail...

The next day (Monday) at about noon our trailer full of junk arrived. Alex nearly single-handedly had it unloaded by 7 pm that night! He also nearly killed himself unloading the file cabinet and managed to strain his back so that he spent the next week walking like a hunchback, but he got it done! We spent the next several days unpacking and organizing the house.

Our stuff arrives!

Abby and James chill out.

Dad tests the new Ikea chair (bought on the second trip to Ikea--did you know kids eat free on Tuesday's at Ikea?).

I promise more house pictures soon. I'm waiting for it to be really clean before I show it to you....hmmm, could be a while. Or, you could come visit and see it first hand!