Moving...Part 1

Day 1

Monday December 14th

The morning began with freezing rain and snow, which caused our quick trip out for breakfast to take an hour. We also got some ice melt to clean off our walkways again. The packers arrived at 9:45am. After taking a quick look around they brought in lots of boxes, paper, and tape and began. After watching for a while we realized we'd have lots of trash to deal with when unpacking, good thing they'll be coming back by to pick up all of our boxes, etc. after we unpack. Yeah! It didn't take long before we could barely get around for all of the boxes. Good thing the girls are already in AR! I couldn't imagine trying to take care of them, while all of the packing was going on. Thank you Nana & Papa for getting the girls - I'm sure they're having a great time! :)

The packing was finished at about 3:30 this afternoon and we were on our way to check in at the hotel, where we now sit (trying to get warm, the room is freezing!). Current temp is 10. Supposed to be even colder tomorrow (while loading) great!! We just found out that the truck won't arrive at our place to load until between 12 and 1 tomorrow afternoon, ughhh! We were hoping for morning, so we could get the cleaning done and hit the road for Arkansas before it gets too late! And we found out that the truck won't be in Utah until the 23rd, double ughhh!! We were hoping for the 21st! We just won't have as much time now for unpacking and getting to the store, etc. before Christmas. I was hoping to be functional and cooking by Christmas, so we'll see!

Tonight we're going to pick up some friends in Ames (the Carlats) for dinner and bowling (no kids)!

Day 2

Tuesday December 15th

We got over to the duplex at about 8am. We decided on Mon. night that we wouldn't stay in a hotel in Logan (to save money) we would just camp out in our house until our "stuff" arrives. So we opened a couple of boxes that had been packed to find our air mattress to take with us (along with some sheets and blankets). Then we got started cleaning. We found out at breakfast that the truck would be at our place between 10 and 11am - yeah! They arrived at 10:15am and didn't waste any time getting started. They had finished loading everything by 1:20pm. We had the front door wide opened that whole time with a temp of 2 degrees and wind chills in the negative teens, it was freezing to say the least. By the time they were finished we were worn out too, and hungry. So we went for lunch at The Cafe with hopes of warming up and getting some energy before heading back over to clean. We enjoyed hot chocolate (me) and coffee (Michael) along with good warm meals, it was great! Then we headed back over to the duplex to finish cleaning we basically just had the floors left to do. We were finished by 3:30pm, loaded up and then hit the road at 4pm headed to Arkansas. We had a good trip made it in exactly 7 hours (it's normally 8 with the girls) and arrived at 11pm.