We're in!!!

This move was really exhausting. Even though we complained a lot about our last move, we had it easy, I think. But this time it was just hard. It seems like we have a ton of stuff, but it's all stuff we need...really. :) I'm just glad to have normal food around the house, now, too. It wasn't very fun trying to make meals with little food so you don't have to move as much, eating with no time, and being tired. So, I am glad we will have normal meals now...it's crazy how food can lift you up or bring you down. But.....

We are finally in our new house! Tired, but in! 3 of our friends came on last Tuesday night (the 20th) and helped Chris move some of the big things...basically took a whole load. (We rented a Uhaul). Then the Elders Quorum came on Wednesday night (I know, American Idol Finale Night, but somehow we recorded it and watched it later) and helped us then. However, only 2 of them came to the actual house to help unload so that took awhile. We realized that not everything fit STILL and Chris had to go back to the house for a last load all by himself around 10pm. I went and picked up the kids at a neighbors house and got them to bed. Tuesday night they went to bed at 10pm. Wednesday they got to bed at 11pm--but were so excited to be in their new rooms. Chris brought the last load by himself at 12:30am. I helped him unload it. Then we had to take the Uhaul back, so as scary as this sounds, it was the only thing we could have done. We put one of our phones on speaker phone in between the 2 kids bedrooms and left them in the house so we could take the truck back (Chris needed a way home so I needed to go too). I held the phone the entire time listening, but luckily none of them made a sound. So...........we finally got to bed around 2:30-3:00am. Peyton so happily woke up at 6:45am. Bummer. That night was hard, too, because we woke up a lot of times for different reasons. One being that Kylie kept falling off her bed. We fixed that problem the next morning and put her bed next to the wall...we didn't realize that it wasn't before. It also was a bummer that Peyton woke up so early because he has been such a sleeper lately. He has been going to bed at 7:30pm and waking up at 8:30-9am or so. Then takes a 3 hour nap. We don't know where that came from all of a sudden, but we'll take that ANY day.

Anyways, so that (Thursday) morning Kylie HAD to go to dance class. We had to leave here by 9am. After dance class I went with the kids to our old house and cleaned cleaned cleaned. Then finally went home afterwards and got a nap. It has been a long couple days, but we are finally in. We have even taken it slow, but realized we are 3/4ths of the way through our boxes. We are so glad that Chris had a long weekend away from work...and he was, too to not have to do SO much all at once. We are glad we are here and love our new house. I'll send pictures when I have more time. :)