Moving Day!

Moving started on Wednesday, October 5th.  We didn't close on our house until October 7th, but we worked a deal with the owner of our new house (a single guy) to start moving a couple days before closing.  We were so grateful for his granting our request!  It gave us a couple days to get moved in, rather than having to be out of the old house and into the new on the very same day.  We had gracious friends who help so much...what would we do without you?!  Many thanks to my friends who came over the week of moving to help pack boxes (even hiring babysitters to come help) and to all the guys who came after work or class to help us fill the moving truck!  Even our awesome moving truck was borrowed to us by friends who have a construction business.  We are blessed with great friends here in Eau Claire!

Over a couple weeks, everything slowly moved out to the garage... 

Logan sure loved the moving truck!  The ramp that ran from the ground up into the box truck was so much fun for the boys.  Yikes!  Good thing we had Logan's big muscles to help us with moving!

Taking a break from the heavy lifting.

Living among the boxes...

Living among the boxes wasn't the best.  We tried to do fun things to keep the kids entertained amidst the chaos!  They did great with all the change and actually seemed to enjoy it.

We did this fun fall tree project from Mommyapolis one day when the leaves were changing so beautifully in Eau Claire.  Logan took his nice artwork to school for his teachers.

We also spent a lot of time outside with the beautiful weather that came with fall.  Soccer is a favorite outdoor pastime for the boys right now.  We enjoyed the last few weeks of our big backyard!

When Dad got home on his nice afternoon, he joined in the soccer game...but is quickly became a tickle war!

Here you can see our bare walls and the paper plates we ate off of for the last week of living in our old house.  The boys would say, "Hey, where's that picture?" of the bare walls - wondering where our walls full of family photos had gone!  They were troopers!

I was sick for a week in the middle of packing which put a real wrench in the progress, but I was lucky that John gave me lots of extra time to rest and I finally got over my nasty cold.  Then, it was back to packing...

The Packing Process

Our house sold in August, but we just got a "SOLD" sign this week - about a month later!  The boys were excited to see the change in the signage.  Logan says often, "Why are we sale-ing this house?"  We explain that we will live in a new house and take all our things with us.  Someone else will live in this house after we leave.  He has mixed reactions about leaving the house, but seems to understand.  He tell people all the time, "Did you know we are sale-ing our house?"

The house is slowly getting packed up.  The process seems endless.  Having moved into this house with no kids makes moving out a whole new ballgame!  The kids like to help pack (i.e. they like to throw things in boxes).  John packed up the whole garage and I've packed most of the house.  We've also had great help from friends who have been willing to come over and help us!

Even with most of the toys packed up (the boys got to choose a few to keep accessible through the move), the boys have been busy playing.  All the extra space from the items that have been moved out into the garage makes for great running space!

Living amongst the boxes has gotten a little difficult but now we're counting down! 

 We've had such a great weather, so while I've neglected to pack many days, its because we'd so much rather have fun outside!

The boys have taken to tackling and wrestling each other...I guess I better get used to that with these two boys!