The Move

As I mentioned in the previous post, the day we left OBX was a long day! We hit the road at about 9:30 a.m. and headed north. When got to the house - the new house - at about 4:00 p.m. and unloaded what we had with us. Then we picked up a U-Haul and headed to Fammy's!



It took a few hours to get everything loaded up, and I think we got back to our house at about 9:30 p.m. We had crib mattresses for the boys (Tyler was out cold by the time we got home!), and we borrowed the mattress from the bed at Fammy's for ourselves. We had a big slumber party in the family room that night!



I must have been too tired to take pictures, but here is the morning after.

Luckily, we had a TV and a little DVD player to (try to) keep the boys occupied when the movers came (they showed up at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday morning). Oh, and it was game day, so the boys had their jersey's on.

Tyler was more interested in watching the "mans" and the 'big truck' out the window.










Dining room:





Living room:

Here's a couple of the guys trying to get our big basement couch in through the sliding glass doors downstairs. It didn't work. And they damaged our screen door. *sigh*

The kitchen looks a little better than this now, but not much!! No, actually, it's coming along nicely. I'm nearly finished lining all the cabinets (in cork) and getting everything put away. It's a process trying to figure out where everything should go!

YAY!!! Our bed!!

It probably only took the movers (I think there were 4 of them) about 2 1/2 hours to get everything in the house and unwrapped and set up. Leaving us with many, many boxes to be unpacked. It's going to be a while before we get completely settled. Good thing we plan to stay for the next 30 years!

I took the following day off to accept delivery from Sears of the washer and dryer (LOVE them), and to wait for the cable guy. Sears showed up right on time, at about 7:15 a.m. The cable guy, however, didn't show up at all.

When we called them, they had no record of the appointment and told us our address didn't even exist. Is that right? So what is this 3800 square foot structure sitting on the lot of 8913 Kingbird Court - a figment of our imaginations??? Without coming right out and saying that Comcast sucks (even though it does), let me just say that we only JUST got service (cable/internet/phone) within the last 48 hours. It was a brutal couple of weeks not being able to watch ANY regular TV. All we had were the kids' DVDs. If you'd like, I can recite "Finding Nemo" for you....

Another delivery snafu was with the couch from Macy's. They had told us our couch would arrive in the warehouse on September 22nd, and they would call us to set up a delivery date/time. I thought that was perfect, that I should be able to get them to deliver on that Monday that I was going to be home for the other deliveries. I realized while we were at the beach that we hadn't yet heard from them, so I gave them a call that Friday. "Yes", they said, "your couch is being delivered today." I asked if they planned to leave it in the driveway since they didn't bother to find out if we would be home and we in fact were not! After phone calls to 2 or 3 different numbers, I was able to get the delivery cancelled and rescheduled. Of course, they don't deliver to our area on Mondays (only Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays - go figure!), so there went my perfect plan. But, they came on Wednesday, and luckily Fammy didn't have to work so she came over and waited for them so we didn't have to miss any more work. She also prepared a dinner in the crock pot to be ready when we got home - yay Fammy!!

So it wasn't long before the boys went from this:

to this:

The couch is HUGE, and takes up a good portion of the room. But that's what we wanted - a place where the whole family can pile on comfortably to watch a movie! And it is comfy!!

Oh, and that's one of our new TVs!

Here's a picture of George, who was probably trying to figure out what the heck was going on this time. Though he should be used to it - this is the 7th residence he has lived in since I got him at 7 weeks old. Don't worry, Georgie, this should be it!!

And here is a beautiful Gainesville sunset we saw the first week in the house:

Ah, country life!!