It is Official We Have Moved

We have spent this past week moving. We signed the papers on our new house on Monday and have been working hard ever since. We have moved countless boxes and toys. We hired movers to move the big stuff, which was a tremendous help! Our new house is now full of boxes and things just waiting to be put up. I really have my work cut out for me! I pretty much have my kitchen in order, and now I am working on the kids bedrooms. Chris and I have both commented that the house was prettier before we moved our stuff in, but we are excited to be in our new home!

It was hard saying goodbye to our old house. When we moved there it was just Chris, me, and Dixie. We moved there from a one bedroom apartment that was smaller than the garage. We were so proud of our first home. It took us half a day to move all our stuff in, and the house was practically empty except for our bed and living room furniture. We managed to fill it up in the nine years we lived there! We brought our three babies home to that house and acquired another dog. It is sad to think that Luke and Kate will not remember that house. It was hard to go back and clean it up after all our stuff was out of it. It just did not feel right without all our things. As I was cleaning the ledge of our big picture window in the den, I thought about all the empty baby bottles we sat down there. It was a weird thing to think about, but it is just one of the memories I have. There are a couple of things I will not miss about that house like the big trees in the front yard that I could not get grass to grow under and the green bathtub in the master bathroom that had been painted white and the paint started chipping off so the green showed through. That being said it was a good house and I will miss it!

School starts on Monday. Rachel will go to a new school. The only person she knows there will be her cousin Mason. We went and met the teacher on Thursday. I really think we got a good one. She has taught for 23 years. Rachel liked her too. Luke started soccer is past week, and Rachel will start cheerleading this next week. Looks like we will have a busy fall schedule.