Five Things

1- We got everything moved out of our apartment and are officially homeless. Thank goodness for great parents who love us and are willing to let us crash with them for the next two weeks.

2- We finally got a closing date on our house. February 14th. Happy Valentines Day to us! (Too bad we won't get the keys that day.)

3- I'm SO SO tired. We both are. This week has been so busy with trying to get things lined up for our loan and trying to move out of our apartment. Today I fell asleep while Lydia was crawling all over me. Literally up and down my body but I just couldn't keep my eyes open.

4-This morning we met with the contractor of our house to talk about the concrete patio that they are pouring off our back steps. It has been too cold to pour any concrete, but it finally warmed up a tiny bit. We wanted it poured so that there was just a little landing at the bottom of the stairs and then it spread out to a large pad to the right of the stairs. He sprayed the outline with his can of spraypaint and we felt pretty good about it. We asked him what he thought, and he said "I think that it should be a little longer right here - and proceeded to add about 20 square feed to the pad. We asked him if that meant that he would have to make it shorter somewhere else, and he just looked at us like we were crazy said "No, my guys will just pour it." Love the attitude of the contractor vs the salespeople that were very much like "You only have 160 square feet unless you want to pay for more." Looking at the outline of our patio makes me SO excited to put a little picnic table out back where Lydia and I can eat lunch in the summer, do fingerprinting, and play with chalk on the concrete. It makes it seem so real.

5- It's obvious that this week has been all about our house. Packing, moving, cleaning, and getting things prepared to close on our house. We had a bit of trouble with our mortgage lender (I have another post half-written about that) and it's been exhausting trying to get everything figured out. Lydia hasn't been sleeping well because of all of the stress and changes, and that means that we haven't been sleeping well either. I'm just grateful for David and how hard he works to make things better for our little family. I have the tendency to stress out and get really upset - but he manages to stay calm and focused and do what needs to be done (all while comforting and supporting me). I can't tell you how happy I will be when things finally slow down a little bit and we can rest for more than two minutes.


This isn't much of a Friday Five post - but it's all that I've got in me tonight. Happy Friday!

Cleaning time...

All of our stuff is moved out. 

We have four days left in our beloved apartment. 

What does that mean? 

Cleaning time. 

I just have to say... I HATE cleaning blinds (and windows)!

They are sticky and dusty and yucky.

Even when you finish tediously cleaning each blind and every corner - they still don't look clean.

5 solid hours into the process and I only have one window done and two other windows started. None of them look clean or even remotely better than when I started.

Heaven help me!

Moving time!

The first big move day. The day that all of our stuff had to move from our little apartment into an even little-er storage unit to await the day that it will all be able to take it's final place in our big new home!

I'll be honest. I was a little nervous about today. We contacted a ton of people to come and help us move our stuff but you never actually know how many people are going to show up. We don't own a ton of stuff - but there were still several heavy pieces of furniture and bunches and bunches of boxes. I don't know why I was so nervous, but I really, really was.

We did our very best to prepare. We are still going to be living in our apartment until the 31st, so we didn't have to have everything out - but we wanted to get as much moved as possible. Our rule was that when people started showing up, there would be no more boxing. If it was in a box, it went - but if it wasn't, it stayed.  Friday night was spent finishing packing up everything that we could. I'd done a really good job at pacing myself, so it wasn't so terrible - but I did have to go to sleep before David was done packing because I had a pretty bad headache. We all got up early this morning and finished everything up. (The tape would wake Lydia up, so David had filled a bunch of boxes that needed finishing up.) Our house was absolutely crazy. Organized chaos though. Organized chaos. See?

Ten o'clock in the morning rolled around and people started showing up. My dad and mom, Kyle and Chelsea Griffin, David's dad, our home teacher Tyler Hall, a fellow ward missionary Gary Child, a couple of men from the ward Curtis Barlow and Reed Anderson, several family members: Amy, Jeff, Kaylee, Josh, and Sam, and even my dearest friend Ashley Cooper, her husband Scott, and her sweet little kiddos. It was amazing to see how quickly everyone was able to pack up the trucks downstairs. (We didn't have a big moving truck, we really just counted on several people who said that they would bring trucks. I was a little worried about this, but we had 5 trucks and a van show up. It was amazing.) Within 35 minutes, all of the vehicles were loaded and we were ready to head over to the storage unit. It was amazing. I didn't have to carry a single box down the stairs. I was able to hold Lydia and direct traffic. It was such a blessing to me. Just a few minutes later all of the trucks had been unloaded in the unit and were headed back to the apartment to pick up the last round of boxes. Less than an hour and a half after we started hauling things downstairs our apartment had been cleared of pretty much all of our belongings. The change was like night and day. 

Of course we celebrated (and tried to show our appreciation) with some yummy pizza! Isn't that the rule? Pizza as payment for helping a person move?  

(This is David's "Will.i.am" pose.)

 

We are SO so grateful for all of the people who gave of their time and energy to come and help us. We really are so blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful people. Just a few more weeks and we will be moving into our house and hopefully we won't have to move ever again!