moving day

Well, this post is long overdue, but we've been a bit busy lately so I hope you'll forgive me... On to our moving weekend. We've been packing since mid-September (slowly) to try and prepare for the actual move. Even as prepared as we tried to be we still had a few shelves to empty, nail holes to fill, drawers to saran wrap and boxes to pack on Friday. Luckily, we had many wonderful friends who were willing to help so we got it all taken care of!

We became pros at the drawer saran wrapping (Kate is the ultimate flipper) - such a packing time saver!

It wasn't all work... we managed to have some fun and take some dancing breaks too!

Done!

On Saturday morning we got up bright and early to get the actual moving done. We rented a U Haul and our 8 person team (Jim, Cinda, Ali, Cole, Lauren, Brian, Ryan and I) were impressively efficient! Check out our moving fleet...

 

Such a great team of helpers!

We we're done with the first load by about 10 and headed to the house...

We unloaded everything and took the opportunity to clean out all the stuff they left in the garage. (Thank goodness for big trash pick up!)

Before: clutter!

After: much cleaner and finally use-able garage!

Adios random junk left at our house (this is after we took everything semi-nice to Goodwill)

Once we were done with that, the guys headed back to the apartment to get the second load and my lovely ladies helped me get unpacked. Lauren, Ali and I worked on the kitchen while Cinda and Grandma Morrow got out bedroom stuff set up. Thanks to all of you for your help! I totally underestimated how nice it would be to have this done!

Almost done...

 

All in all, it was a great weekend filled with wonderful friends and family. We are so thankful for all your help! Here are some pictures of the progress thus far... it's definitely still a work in progress, but we are loving it so far!