Thursday March 31, 2011 - Moving Day!

We just got our internet up and running at the new place this morning! I wanted to get caught up on all that's been going on with us since last week. So, back to Thursday moving day... We had some great friends offer to take care of the girls throughout the day and evening on Thursday, so we could both concentrate on what needed to be done. I spent the morning finishing up packing our bathroom, our room, and cleaning, while Michael taught class. Then in the afternoon Michael picked up the u-haul truck and a few friends came over and we started loading. We had a couple of vehicles packed up already with "fragile things" when we got the news we could go pick up the keys...it was 4:55pm. I left with a few girl friends and we got the keys and took our cars to unload at the house...meanwhile the men were still loading the big u-haul truck. They showed up at about 6:30pm to unload the truck and just a few minutes later more friends brought some pizzas over. While the truck was being unloaded me and 3 other girls stayed in the kitchen and just unloaded the kitchen boxes as they came in. It went so smoothly! I thought I would spend all day Friday just doing the kitchen, but it was done Thursday night! After they unloaded the truck they ate and went back to get the last few things. (We didn't want to overload the truck and risk damaging any of our furniture!) By 8:50pm everything was moved to our new house and all of our friends had left. Michael took the truck back, and I went to pick up the girls. I wish I had taken pictures in action, but I was too busy (obviously), we had 15 or more people here helping and we are sooo THANKFUL for all of their help!! Here's what the house looked like that evening...

Kitchen

Living room Madilynn & Elizabeth's room

Our room

living room/dining

the furniture wasn't "arranged" in any of the rooms at this point.