Moving

Well, today has finally come. Brain and I need to be out of our apartment tonight. We have been working really hard this last week to get things packed up and moved to my parents house. My family has been such a wonderful help in all of this. Jacob stayed over a few nights last week, and we put him to work. We also had Rachelle come and help us on our big move day on Saturday. It was so wonderful having them help. We also had Krystal and her kids, Brynnlee and Caleb, help unload at Mom and Dad's. My family is so wonderful!

I have to say that we had a bit of fun during all the drudgery of moving. One of the times Brian came in get a drink he could not find his glass from earlier so he got another one out. Later I found the glass he had misplaced and gave it to Jacob. Jacob waited for the right moment and poured it on Brian as he was going down the stairs. It was a really hot day and Brian needed to cool off anyway.

Brain and I have lived in this apartment since we got married, and have many memories here. It is going to be hard to leave. We are going to miss this place.

Here are some pictures of the move on SaturdayOur next door neighbor took pity on Brian and Jacob and helped move our entertainment center.Jacob was such a big help to Brian and me
We were so glad that Krystal told us about how cheap it was to rent a trailer for just a day. We were able to move so much more in one trip with it. We did a bit of calculating and found that it would have taken about 4 or 5 times as many trips with only the truck , but we did it all in 2.
Here Brian is resting after a long day of packing. He deserved it.

Skipping rocks

Brian and I try to meet for lunch as often as we are able to, and for lunch yesterday we went down to the river. After we were finished eating lunch we started playing in the cool water. Brian started skipping rocks and I told him that I did not know how to. Brian was very surprised and decided to teach me how. I had no idea that there was such a science to it. I had so much fun.

House hunting

On monday morning Brian and I flew out to Michigan to look for a place to live. We had only a short time to do everything, but I think we did very well. A lot of the houses needed a ton of work done to them, or were out of our price range or in a really scary neighborhood. We were finally able to get a few that we put onto a list of possibilities. We then spent almost the entire last night we were there going over each of the houses in detail and really discussed what we each want to have with buying a home. We then met with the Realtor for the last time and made an offer on one of them. It was very crazy, but Brian and I feel good about the place we picked. Now we are just waiting to hear back.

Our first night was kinda interesting, I had a migraine and when we checked into the place we had reserved online to stay at we found was in a very scary place. The first room had the doorjam bent back, and then the next one had a leaky toilet and the window would not lock. We quickly decided to find another place to stay, and we did find one that was 100 times better.

The whole experience was very crazy, but Brian and I learned a lot from this experience. Looking back on it we realized that for all that we had to do it went pretty smoothly.