moving

it’s happening…we’re moving.

this week started as a buffer week between getting back from hawaii and the big move. we planned on spending evenings here and there to keep packing and getting the new house ready (nothing major yet, just painting, cleaning and bringing over a box or two) in preparation for a move over the following weekend.

well, it’s thursday and we’re almost completely moved in. on a whim tuesday evening, wil decided we would do the big move with the uhaul yesterday and today since he wouldn’t have the weekend open and he already was scheduled off these two days. after a late night on tuesday (and early morning the next day) we painted the two spare rooms and steamed the carpets.

yesterday, i came home from work to find gracie sitting in a practically empty condo (she thought it was great to run around in there)…wil had taken a good portion of the furniture over, with the help of a couple friends. i joined later that evening to finish up some painting and to set up a few pieces of furniture here and there.

we definitely were not prepared to do the full move this fast, as we only had about half of the condo packed and ready. we’ve got a ton of little stuff (not to mention our entire kitchen and closet) to move over the rest of the week/weekend. but, it’s pretty awesome to see our stuff in a real house. it’s starting to feel more like our home, and i know it will when we get more stuff put away and set up. it’s a great refresher for our furniture too…i’ve lived with most of this stuff for 4 years, and somehow seeing it all in a new house made both of us love it again. i can’t wait to add some new pieces to the mix and live in a really complete home!

as for fixing it up, we’ve only painted two rooms thus far as that was the only thing that really needed to happen right now…our plans include tiling the master and guest bath, changing light fixtures and faucets here and there, and the whopper: a new kitchen. having a smaller down payment than we had saved for, we’ve got some extra money on hand that we are excited to use for new cabinets and counters. it will be a long process that we have only just started, but totally worth it for us to live in, and to resell a couple years down the road.

i hope we are closer to being settled in about a week, so hopefully i can take some pictures…of course, they won’t be complete “after” pictures as we won’t have any of our new stuff quite yet.

oh, and gracie’s take? she LOVES the yard…she already loves being able to run around and sniff outside. the inside? not so much…she’s totally afraid of the hardwood floors… if you walk through the room, she watches you from the doorway, and if she does decide to walk though, she walks along the walls. in due time…