Good-Bye Apartment

We are finally out of our apartment! We are so glad to be out of our old apartment with no central air, no washer and dryer, away from the stairs and the long walk from the car, and into a house with a garage to park our cars (once we get it cleaned out that is). Ahh! Sigh of release!

Oh Wait! The stress is not even close to being over! We still have boxes to go through and unpack, things to find, items to clean and repair in the house...

but...it is a house!

So I thought I would share a few pictures to commemorate our apartment leaving. Here is our apartment right before we walked out for the very last time. See how nice and white the stove is? Scott scrubbed that thing to death to get it looking nice, hopefully they don't charge us for it!

On Sunday, our friends Tawni & Rob watched Brendan from 10:00 until 2:30 while we did the final cleaning of the apartment. It was SUCH a help, there is no way we could have cleaned the apartment with Brendan crawling all over the place.

By 3:30 we did the final walk-through (which took about 1 min 30 sec), seemed like a joke, but we turned in our keys, loaded up our cars with the very last load of stuff from our storage bin. Here is Brendan driving our car with the last load of stuff.

I realize that I have not posted any pictures of the inside of the house yet, they will come once I feel a little better about posting pictures of the mess that is my house right now.

Movin' on up!

Well I think we might actually make it. I fell so unprepared! My house is not done being packed, work is CRAZY BUSY which makes me stress even more and I can't concentrate at work because of the stress of the house which makes work even more stressful! AHH! I think I am making myself sick...

All that to say that I went to my our new house today and saw the paint complete. It looks wonderful! I of course LOVE my red kitchen. My dad worked ALL day on my house, he patched another hole, hung all the bars/racks in the closets, rehung all the lights removed for painting, bought supplies from Home Depot for us, worked on my kitchen sink and I'm sure tons of other stuff that I am leaving out. I don't know where we would be without him! He says that's what dads are for, but I know that I am special, that not all dads would put in that much work, time or energy. I am so thankful for my father!

with all my father's help getting the house ready, it looks like we will hit our goal of moving on Saturday. We hope to start by moving boxes into the house on Friday night so the movers can concentrate on the furniture on Saturday morning. If you are wondering if you can help, we do need a few more people to help Friday night with boxes if you are available, and/or if you have a truck, SUV or a bigger vehicle to put boxes into to move to the new house, that would be great! Moving with a baby (or doing anything with a baby really) can be quite the challenge. If you have time on Friday night or Saturday and would like to spend some time with an adorable baby (Brendan that is) please let me know, we really could use all the help we can get.

Once again, that you all for your thoughts, prayers, concerns and encouragement. Sometimes I wonder if all the stress is worth it, I'm sure in a few months, I'll have forgotten all about the stress...