Moving weekend

WoW!!! Where has the time gone???? I looked down one day and we were closing on a house. The next time I looked down we have been living here for 2+ weeks!! To say we have been busier than normal is an understatement. So we need to backtrack a little to get you all caught up!

We closed on our house on a Thursday a couple weeks ago. That is a story in and of itself... My car had a recall on it, and I was attending a work conference Thursday and Friday. I had decided a few weeks ago I would get my car fixed on that Thursday since I wouldn't need it all day. My grandparents have a convertible down here so I thought that would work just perfect. The plan was to drop my car off at the dealership before 7:30, Matt would take me down to my grandparents and I could get the convertible and be at the conference by 8. That was the plan...In the meantime Matt decided we needed to close on the house at 7:30 am. I had already said I couldn't be there to close so I had signed everything ahead of time. But this put us in a bit of a time crunch. We got to the dealership around 7:15 and were out of there before 7:30. We got to my grandparents around 7:40, still good for me but Matt was already late. He barely slowed down for me to get out of the car before he raced off to go close. And here is where the problems started. I get into their house, go out to the car, turn the key,and nothing.....NOTHING......No lights, no odometer reading, nothing!! So I call Matt and he comes back to help me jump the car. We worked on that and after about 10 minutes it still wouldn't start. I could absolutely not be late to this conference so I said he would have to take me. Of course this conference was taking place near our apartment which we were not anywhere close to at this time. Matt had been texting our realtor to say he would be late. By this point he gave him a call to give him the low down. Mark the Magnificent swooped in to save the day. His fix to our problem-drive to the title company so Matt can sign the papers and he would drive me to my conference. He is not your average realtor. So we get to the title company and thank goodness it was almost Halloween because they had a bucket of chocolate sitting out-talk about right place at the right time. I was in desperate need! Mark our realtor turned chauffeur was ready and we took off right away to attempt to get me to my conference on time. As we were sitting through rush hour I was tired, upset, embarassed-so many emotions were going through my mind. Then Mark the realtor, turned chauffeur also became my therapist and motivational speaker and was able to calm me down. Not only that-he had gotten me a water and offered to pick me up that evening. What a great guy! And he got me to the conference on time! This was all before 8 am-we were eating problems for breakfast!!

Now, back to the house. That evening, we got right to work. We headed down with a load of stuff. Since it was October I grabbed a couple fall decorations to begin. Here was our first decoration in our house!

This load of things pretty much filled up our apartment. It was barely noticeable in the house.

Our first meal in our first home-CHINESE!!!

Even Matt was excited! Thanks to our bay windows we didn't have to eat on the floor.

We got a Rug Doctor to start our cleaning.

We stayed down at the house pretty late that night. Friday after work we stayed at the apartment boxing more things up. Matt stole the shoes I was wearing and these were the only ones I could find. Great moving shoes, huh? 

Here is the shoe stealer himself taking a few things off the wall.

We had quite the mess!!

Saturday morning we went out for breakfast. Matt's uncle had told us about this place. It was very close to our apartment so we figured we better try it before we moved further away. We ordered another mondo cinnamon roll because we were STILL raving about the one we had in Albuquerque a few weeks back. And just in case there wasn't enough butter on this one, they gave us a side of butter to go with it. Why not, right?

Then we grabbed our U-Haul and started loading. The two of us loaded everything in about 2 1/2 hours. We were beyond tired at this point, and we were just kind of getting started. Then we drove down to the house to start unloading. It was HOT!!!! Like almost 100° hot. And we also have HEAVY furniture. Like really heavy!

We added some things to our pile of stuff.

When I took this picture I felt like we almost had one room complete...Now, it doesn't look that close...It was getting there I guess!

Matt got to work on cleaning the pool. Priorities...

And I got to work on the closet. I saw this idea on Pinterest, and it was a great tip! I didn't have to take all my clothes off the hangers and put them back up again.

Matt chose to not use my tip.

That night we also made our first trip to The Home Depot. Since we had a home we felt it was appropriate.

Sunday morning we woke up tired and sore. I felt like I had done 500 squats, and that probably wasn't too far off! My mom had planned to come down several months ago. It just so happened to be the same weekend we bought our house. Actually back when she bought her plane ticket we hadn't even started looking at houses yet! We went and picked her up and took her to Joe's Farm Grill for lunch. Then we headed back to show her our new house. Matt and I were both ready for a nap but she got right to work. 

We couldn't let her work along, so Matt the monkey climbed up to our cut outs to dust. To say these were dusty is the understatement of the century! I'm pretty sure no one had dusted up there since they painted it.

I think he was enjoying cleaning for the first time ever. Look at our mess!!!

I couldn't stand on my legs any longer so we took a little break. Matt decided to take a dip in the pool.

We got MUCH more done with my mom here. THANKS MOM!!!! I'm pretty sure we would have just laid around and STILL have a mess today. There are still a few things laying out, but we are on the right track. Monday my mom went to work with me. It was nice to have someone with me all day! 

We started hanging things on the wall this past week. It is really starting to feel like a home! Check out my next post for our quickly put together fall decorations.