This weekend was moving weekend! On Friday night, Aaron and I finished up the last of the packing. As a reminder, we had taken over a decent amount of our things already. On Wednesday, we took the clothes from the closet. On Thursday, we took almost all the kitchen stuff, the new headboard, and various other bins of things. On Friday morning, we had taken all of our remaining food (except what we needed for dinner that night), more bins, the rugs, and all the towels and bedding.
On Friday night, we did the little bit of laundry we had... We also washed the couch covers so that we could give them to Beth since we told her she could have them with the furniture. We washed up the dishes (mostly from dinner) and got them packed up.
We finished with all the packing... We had to pack up the dogs' things (minus the toys and bowls which waited until the last minute). We had to pack up all the odds and ends that had made a home on the dining room table. In the living room, we just had to take the coat rack off the wall and pack up the Blu-ray player. In the basement, we just had a few odds and ends to pack, as well as few things in the coat closet at the top of the stairs (Aaron's scarves and a few cleaning things). Upstairs, we just had to pack up a little bit of clothing (my sweatpants, my sweatshirts, the few things that I saved but didn't wear, and all of Aaron's clothes from the dresser, his jeans, etc.). We did have to pack up our bathroom as we left all the medicine and toiletries until the last minute. Finally, there were a few towels to grab and some odds and ends in the office. We brought as much stuff as possible down to the first floor so that it would be easy to get packed the next morning.
On Saturday, the "moving crew" (i.e. my parents) showed up. Aaron went to pick up the moving truck and picked up my brother, Casey, on the way (his wife would be coming later with my niece and they didn't need to have two cars). Aaron headed out around 8:30am to pick up Casey and the truck. My parents arrived around 9:15am and it was just a few minutes later when Casey and Aaron got back with the truck. We started to get the truck packed up. We put the dresser into the truck first, then moved onto the TV stand, TV, mattress, and bed frame. Everything else got packed in around it all. It was around 10:45am when the truck was filled and it was off to the new house. (My dad's truck was mostly filled already with a mower and lawn tools, etc.)
I rode with my parents in their truck and Casey rode with Aaron in the rental truck. We got a bit of a head start so I could move my car and make room for the rental truck (I had parked my car on the street on Friday night; I parked it so that it would take up as much space as possible so we would have enough room for the rental truck.) While the men (and Mom) worked on unloading the trucks, I kept all the dogs out in the yard - the fence keeps them in, but I wanted to keep an eye on them (especially Chance, my parent's dog, who likes to eat everything he finds on the ground). It was just about noon when they had the truck empty; Aaron and Casey headed back to the apartment with the truck to pick up the couch and take that to Beth, then return the truck.
Around 12:30, I heard someone at the front door and found it was the Comcast guy... Even though I had scheduled the installation for 2:30-4:30pm. My parents stayed out in the yard working on getting the vines down from the side fence. I worked on getting some small stuff unpacked in the living room and kitchen; I didn't want to wander far from the Comcast guy. He was here for about an hour and then I was able to do a little bit more unpacking before Aaron and Casey got back. Katelin (my sister-in-law - Casey's wife) and Kendall (my niece) arrived just before Aaron and Casey... We ordered some pizza to thank our helpers and finally got to sit down to eat around 3pm.
After we enjoyed some pizza, Casey, Katelin, and Kendall left. My parents went back to the apartment for the last of the stuff (mainly the grill); when they had unloaded that, they left. Then it was just unpacking time... That was the story of the rest of our Saturday and most of Sunday too! By now we are about 80% unpacked... A lot of things have been moved to the attic, but that counts! (It belongs there - it's just still in bins!)
Wish us luck as we keep getting settled in... And as Hurricane Sandy approaches!
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