Moving!

We moved into our house last Saturday, April 24th. The day started out kind of gloomy and was sprinkling. I was so nervous the rain was going to ruin our move! The movers said they stop when it starts storming and either wait it out (while still charging you per hour!) or they take all your stuff they have already loaded and come back the next day. Uh....neither of those sounded like good options to me....

Anyways! Luckily it just drizzled for a little bit and then let up by late morning. It took almost 4 hrs. to complete which adds up when they are charging like $90 an hr!

We hired movers from All my Sons. It went ok. They weren't super fast, but did a pretty good job overall. James helped load and carry stuff the entire time and when it was starting to take too long we called in reinforcements from friends and family to help unload! Nothing was really damaged. We had a few scratches on big items and just a few scratches on the walls, but no major dents.

Either way I'm SO happy we hired movers or it would have taken probably at least twice as long and would have completely worn us out!

Instead I had energy to unpack the kitchen from this:

To this:

The rest of the house still needs some work. Like our living room:

These are our brand new couches we got (thank-you new homebuyer tax credit!) We discovered that the area rug we had in our apartment is WAY too small for the size of this room so we are looking around for a new (and affordable) one.

We ordered a matching coffee table and TV stand from Target.com. The coffee table just arrived last night and looks awesome! However, until we get the TV stand our brand new TV just resides on the floor.

We actually watched a movie while it was on the floor last weekend. James was really excited to try it out, so we just kind of slouched down on the couch to try and get on the same level. I"m sure it will be much more enjoyable once it is actually on a stand. :)

This week we also got the garage completely cleared out and mostly organized. Which means we FINALLY got to park our cars inside!!

With room to spare!

Things are definitely coming along! I'm hoping this weekend we can finally get stuff mostly organized in our master bedroom and move clothes from our old dressers that are currently in the guest rooms to our new dressers in the master. You would think we would have done that first huh?