Moving is Tedious, Time-consuming, and Tiring!
Scratch that. It's just plain exhausting!
We had SO much help!!!
Three Saturdays in a row some of the same people showed up to help us move all our junk.
I even had people who washed my dishes when they were too overwhelmed to know what else to do.
Thanks guys :)
It was a horribly dirty job. I'm pretty sure all my work shirts are completely ruined from that move.
There were only a couple small mishaps:
The biggest being the barrel of anti freeze which I said I always haul un-strapped.
Unfortunately we learned that it should have been strapped. And fortunately for Elijah he just happened to not be wearing his seat belt and was able to jump forward quickly!
Did I mention that this whole move thing was overwhelming? Sometimes we didn't know where to start so sometimes we just didn't.
Instead:
Took Naps
Hot rodding with a Steiner.
Imagined riding the jet ski.
"How do you eat a pringle?!"
Photo Shoots
More naps
Sat and thought.
Or leaned and thought.
Signed our names on the white board.
Inspired each other to keep going.
Hard at work again
Dismantling the lifts
Loading them.
Sometimes skid steers need a bit more weight to balance things out. :)
Hauling them
Load after load rolled out of that place. Our landlord was seriously in shock over how much stuff we had there!
Actually we were too, I think.
We never counted exactly but there were well over thirty trailer loads hauled out. Yeah, there's a reason why I'm still sorting and organizing all that stuff here. There's a lot. :(
We never counted exactly but there were well over thirty trailer loads hauled out. Yeah, there's a reason why I'm still sorting and organizing all that stuff here. There's a lot. :(
Seriously we could never have moved both our house and the shop in 2 1/2 weeks if we hadn't had so much help!
Kaylee, Ben, and Elijah were out here for the week so I put them to work. I think they think I'm something similar to a slave driver now! What are big sisters for, right?! :)
Many many loads later, Blake and I went back and pressure washed the place and cleaned out the last little bits of stuff.
As we left the driveway for the last time, I wondered if maybe I should cry just a little. So I just did inside because I really am excited about life at our new place! All the late nights of working, and the Friday night unplanned pizza parties and the organizing of that jam packed building and the many other things that happened there over the past four years can be really awesome, happy memories. And I'm looking forward to making lots of new ones with our new place!
I remember moving out of our little house that you came and visited us at. Adam & Rowan were both born during our 3 years of living there. The last time we drove out of the driveway, I sobbed my heart out. Like, little kid, loud, gut wrenching sobs. It could have been partially due to the fact that we were moving into a tiny motorhome with a 2 month old and a 2 year old in March....
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