Sheesh! Everyone says that moving is stressful, but holy cow...that was cRaZy!
First we started by just getting everything all boxed up. The boys had to take a game boy break with dad. Just living out of boxes for three days is crazy but pretty typical if you're moving... a big thanks to a few people who really came through with a ton of great boxes for us!
So moving day came and we had several amazing people from the ward show up to help us get the truck packed and within a few hours it was completely packed with only a few things that wouldn't fit. 
We spent the rest of the night cleaning the house. The kids spent the night over at our AMAZING friends and Rusty, Shawn and I camped out in our empty house. The next day we finished cleaning the house and packing the cars and then headed over to the new house. We were suppose to be out by Friday but the new owners of our old house were giving us until Friday night, Saturday morning. We were told the occupants of our new house would have moved out the day before (thursday) and that our loan would fund and record Friday at noon. So we were there about a half an hour before noon kind of hoping we could start unloading things into the garage or driveway. But to our surprise and dismay...there was a huge moving truck parked in the driveway. We were a little shocked...they had told us they would be out, so we didn't see this coming. We called our realtor and asked what the deal was and she found out that their house that they were moveing into wasn't ready for them yet so they weren't able to move out. That would have been good to know...also she told us that someone had dropped the ball and had not faxed in our closing paperwork in time to get the loan funded by noon. -- And that's when our piano mover called....he would be at our old house to pick up our piano in about 20 minutes. So we went and knocked on the door of our new house and they were very nice, they said that they had other arrangements and they assured us that they were "almost" done packing....they still needed to move the kitchen table, stools, chairs, couches, furniture, take apart the beds, TVs and on and on it went...but they were "almost" done! They also informed us that they would move everything into the garage and hopefully be able to come get it by Sunday night. Oh and we were informed the house was not going to be cleaned. When we told them we had a piano guy coming they told us we could go ahead and put it in the front room...oh and would we mind seeing if they would take their piano as well...so yes, I arranged to have their piano moved....and then I drove off to meet the piano guys at our old house. A few minutes later I get a text from Shawn saying that he was helping them move their furniture into the garage. We finally got word that the loan was officially recorded and stuff at about 2 or 3pm. By that time Shawn had helped them clean out a few rooms in the house and then started to unload our truck (which was still parked clear out by the street). Anyway long story...they finally got their stuff out of the house and into the garage by 6 or 7 that night. Our house was a disaster...we had originally planned to move our stuff into the garage and then take the boxes to the correct rooms from there. Every thing we owned was in one of three rooms...it's was crazy!
And of course we weren't able to get the truck unloaded very fast so we ended up having to call and extend the truck an extra day (grrr). It was quite the stressful day. Emotionally and physically draining. By that night we had some beds put together and others just had mattresses on the floor and we just went to bed.
First we started by just getting everything all boxed up. The boys had to take a game boy break with dad. Just living out of boxes for three days is crazy but pretty typical if you're moving... a big thanks to a few people who really came through with a ton of great boxes for us! So moving day came and we had several amazing people from the ward show up to help us get the truck packed and within a few hours it was completely packed with only a few things that wouldn't fit. We spent the rest of the night cleaning the house. The kids spent the night over at our AMAZING friends and Rusty, Shawn and I camped out in our empty house. The next day we finished cleaning the house and packing the cars and then headed over to the new house. We were suppose to be out by Friday but the new owners of our old house were giving us until Friday night, Saturday morning. We were told the occupants of our new house would have moved out the day before (thursday) and that our loan would fund and record Friday at noon. So we were there about a half an hour before noon kind of hoping we could start unloading things into the garage or driveway. But to our surprise and dismay...there was a huge moving truck parked in the driveway. We were a little shocked...they had told us they would be out, so we didn't see this coming. We called our realtor and asked what the deal was and she found out that their house that they were moveing into wasn't ready for them yet so they weren't able to move out. That would have been good to know...also she told us that someone had dropped the ball and had not faxed in our closing paperwork in time to get the loan funded by noon. -- And that's when our piano mover called....he would be at our old house to pick up our piano in about 20 minutes. So we went and knocked on the door of our new house and they were very nice, they said that they had other arrangements and they assured us that they were "almost" done packing....they still needed to move the kitchen table, stools, chairs, couches, furniture, take apart the beds, TVs and on and on it went...but they were "almost" done! They also informed us that they would move everything into the garage and hopefully be able to come get it by Sunday night. Oh and we were informed the house was not going to be cleaned. When we told them we had a piano guy coming they told us we could go ahead and put it in the front room...oh and would we mind seeing if they would take their piano as well...so yes, I arranged to have their piano moved....and then I drove off to meet the piano guys at our old house. A few minutes later I get a text from Shawn saying that he was helping them move their furniture into the garage. We finally got word that the loan was officially recorded and stuff at about 2 or 3pm. By that time Shawn had helped them clean out a few rooms in the house and then started to unload our truck (which was still parked clear out by the street). Anyway long story...they finally got their stuff out of the house and into the garage by 6 or 7 that night. Our house was a disaster...we had originally planned to move our stuff into the garage and then take the boxes to the correct rooms from there. Every thing we owned was in one of three rooms...it's was crazy!And of course we weren't able to get the truck unloaded very fast so we ended up having to call and extend the truck an extra day (grrr). It was quite the stressful day. Emotionally and physically draining. By that night we had some beds put together and others just had mattresses on the floor and we just went to bed. Now contrast that with today...a whole week later. WOW...A much better day. The house is mostly organized and put together. It feels so nice. I had a few great friends come help and an amazing mom stay for three days. Thanks so much! We love our new house and we are very excited to start getting to know the neighborhood a little better! It's amazing how quickly such a horrible bad day can all the sudden be a whole week in the past. Love how life changes fast sometimes.
Well we are certainly up for visitors, so come on over and check out our cute new house!
3 comments:
Congratulations again on the new home. My, all that does sound very stressful, however you are right it has now passed and you are in the great stange of moving... you know, the being done part.... lol!
Oh how nice! It's stories like this that make me glad we're not moving AGAIN for a while! (It's been 9 times for us already!!!)
I would like to go and see your new house, i just need to know the address:)
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