A few of our moving adventures....

We are finally getting settled in our new house. We actually parked one of our cars in our garage over the weekend. Only one more to go! There are still plenty of boxes in there that need to be unpacked (or just thrown away...he he he). I finally uploaded some pictures today and thought I would share some of our exciting (ha ha) moving adventures.

After some pretty AMAZING packing (Did I ever tell you that my hubby is a fabulous packer....I guess he should be after all the moving we have done!), we managed to get MOST of our stuff in the U-Haul truck. We had to leave a few things behind, but we will be going back anyway, so it won't be a problem getting them. We had several guys show up to help. Praise the Elder's Quorum for their muscles!! It made the job go by much faster. We packed up the truck and most of our things the night before the move. The next morning we ate breakfast, loaded the rest of our things, hurried an laundered all the bedding and towels, and cleaned up the house then we took off for the LLLLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG journey.

I was really worried about the journey. It is a 6 hour drive (at least....not counting stops, or traveling with a U-Haul). That is a long journey under normal circumstances, but moving everything we owned, just made it more stressful. I had never driven that long by myself before either. We decided to split up the kids. I would take the oldest and the youngest and DH would take the middle two in the U-Haul with him. This way I would have the oldest to help with the baby. I was the most worried about the baby. 7 month old babies don't really like to be in their car seats that long.

I was super surprised at how well the kids traveled. We stopped to eat lunch at a park and let them wiggle, but it was cold and rainy, so they didn't have a chance to play. We kept swapping the DVD player back and forth between the vehicles for the trip. All the kids but the oldest took some good naps along the way. Even the baby traveled pretty well. She got fussy a few times....luckily we had some licorice to keep her happy......

We got safely here finally, and it really wasn't that bad. All of those prayers certainly helped with that!

I thought I would share this funny picture. Most of our things have been in a storage unit for the last 11 months. When we were unloading them we kept finding corn stuffed into things. We found a bunch in my couch, and all of this was in my washing machine. The funny thing is that it was stuffed into the drain pipe that was inside my CLOSED washing machine. I don't know how an animal got in their to do it. We are not even sure what kind of rodent it was. I hope he wasn't too sad when we drove off with his food storage.
It will probably take a couple more weeks to get things all unpacked and put away. Then I can start doing the fun stuff.....decorating. Then I will share pictures of our new home.

Things are piling up around here...

Things are piling up around here! My goodness, life has gotten a little crazy. We are moving in 18 days, and we have hardly started packing. The diapers are overflowing....
the laundry needs folding.....
the ironing is not getting done....
the dishes are mounding.....
the boxes are sitting waiting to be packed.... (And as you can tell, the kids aren't much help!)

Add to that 23 orders for vinyl lettering, a quarterly primary activity that I am in charge of, babysitting my niece, and taking care of my 4 little girls. Can you see my head spinning? I feel like I am going a little insane. So I am going to take a little leave of absence from my blog for awhile. The next few weeks will be busy!!! Stay tuned for pics of our new house when we get all settled.

Waiting....

We are supposed to be moving in 18 days. I can't believe how fast the time has flown by. We are still waiting for someone to buy our house. We have several families interested, but they all have to sell their other home first....so hence we wait. I am going insane!!! We are showing our house quite a bit, so I am constantly having to keep it spotlessly clean. My house is never really that messy, but trying to keep it up to the highest standards all the time is wearing me out. Even my kids are paranoid about messing anything up. We are just hoping and praying that we get an offer before it is time for us to move. Selling our house has been the most stressful part about moving. I can handle packing and the rest, but all the waiting is killing me. If you happen to have any room in your prayers...pray for us to sell our house. We can use all the help we can get.

I should have known....

I really should have known this would happen. We are moving. It definately isn't the first time we have moved, and it isn't the first time we have moved while I have been pregnant. In fact, this will be our 7th move in the 10 years since we got married, and out of those 7 moves I have been pregnant 4 times. So it should not have surprised me that when I got pregnant that it was time to pack up and move again. It was a BIG surprise though. My husband always had said that he didn't plan on moving again, so I settled into life here. When we first moved here I never thought it would be our last house....I guess I was right. My husband has been offered a new job, so we will be relocating at the end of July. It feels harder to move this time. Maybe it is because we have lived here longer than we lived anywhere else, or maybe it is because I don't want to uproot the kids from their school and their friends, or maybe because I don't want to leave my friends and the things I like to do here. We have a great neighborhood, and I have really enjoyed living here. I guess that is why I am sad to leave. I am well acquainted with where we are moving, in fact, my husband grew up there. It will definately be different, but I look forward to a little slower pace to life, less traffic, actually being able to hear the birds, and see the stars at night. And another thing that I am excited about is that we will be building our own home (yes, by ourselves....I know my way around a hammer!). I have always wanted to build my own house. My parents built their own house. It took a long time, but it is so neat to go there and think, "I helped shingle that roof." or "I put in those electrical outlets." It will be fun to be able to do that everyday in my own home. My husband is amazing. He can do almost anything. He builds stuff all the time, but nothing this big. He is excited to do it. It will be fun planning our dream home together. So if I am not around much these days it is because I am packing up boxes, throwing out junk I don't want to move, or cleaning my house so we can sell it. It will be a busy summer!!!!