Day off school

The girls had no school today. My suburban has been so dirty but I have not wanted to wash it until I could park it in a garage. I told the girls that we were all going to work together today to clear out the garage. They were a little grumbly but they worked with Kevin and I and the cars ended up in the garage at the end of the day.

The other side of the garage still has quite a few boxes in it but it will all happen in time.

1 week

We have been in our house 1 week now. Everyone seems to be settling in quite nicely. The kitchen is mostly unpacked and the girls have unpacked there rooms. It will be a while before we get it all where we want it but I am happy with the progress that we have made. Ashley has not had any problems sleeping this whole week. I am so grateful that this adjustment has not been hard for her because Madison and Allison did not want to start sleeping in her with her. Madison is loving her queen bed. She feels like she has so much more room then she did before. Allison loves having her own room. She has shared a room since she was 18 months old and she is my girl that really needs her own space.

It has been hard to have my girls so far away. They spend all of there time upstairs now but I know that as we get the living room finished that and the newness of the house wears off I will see them more. This first week we have hardly seen Ashley. If she is not at practice she is out with one of the neighbor girls. We have three girls from our ward right within a few houses from us. This is a 3rd graders paradise. I hope that none of the girls ever move and Ashley gets to grow up with all them.

Today as we were doing some stuff in the garage and Ashley came home looking like this.

These girls are her type of girls. They like to play and get dirty.

The day after a move

Even though we moved just yesterday we picked up like normal today. Madison had to give a talk in church today so we got up and got ready for church. It was hard getting our of bed. I am not as young as I was when we moved into our last house. Allison and Ashley were up early going through boxes and finding stuff that has been in storage for six months. Allison was so happy to have her copies of Harry Potter back. She loves to read them over and over and it is easier to do when you don't have to borrow them from the library.

After church I was still exhausted and the girls were a little too excited about unpacking and I might have had a mini melt down while getting dinner (a frozen lasagna) in the oven. We couldn't find the silverware and no one wanted to help me.

After my little meltdown I felt a little better but the kitchen has got to be the first place we focus our efforts. This will not do when hungry children want to be fed.

It has been only a little over 24 hours since we got everything in and it is already starting to feel like home. The girls settled right into bed last night. We have been worried about Ashley because she had some sleeping issues in the rental and now that we are not on the same floor as her it might be hard for her. I am hoping that last night is an indicator of how things will be from here on out.

Madison's first date

Today is the day of Madison's first date. It has been a crazy day with moving but I am happy to report that everything is moved into our house. The rental is clean the and storage shed is cleared out of. Madison and Allison were a big help. Madison drove Allison to game this morning so I would not have to worry about it and then ran little errands for me through out the day. Megan Moeller picked Ashley up early this morning for her game and then kept her at her house all day playing with her girls. Ashley would have been a big help but it was also a big help to have her out of the way so I didn't have to worry about her with all the people moving things around.

Madison started early afternoon getting ready for her date. It wasn't the most convenient time for a first date but it all worked out. Her good friend Kylie came over to help her get ready while I was still busy with the house. I did get a few pictures before Madison left.

I was distracted when Micah came to pick her up so didn't get a picture but Kevin was sweet and got when she got home. I was in bed after the long day of moving.

Kevin was having a hard time with this milestone in Madison's life. Micah was perfect gentleman and did everything that Kevin expected from a boy that wants to date his daughter. I think that helped him deal with his little girl going on a date better. Every other boy had a tall order to live up to now though.

My favorite part of the whole night was when she came and sat on my bed with me after getting home.

She came in and told me all about the night. Today was a great day for her.

Move in day

Bright and early this morning Kevin and I went and signed the papers for our house. I can't believe that this day is finally here. It has been a long process but worth it. Our house has turned out just the way that I imagined it would and better in so many ways. After signing the papers we went to breakfast and waited to hear about when it funded. We were expecting early afternoon but got a call around 11 that the house was ours.

It was so exciting walking in that first time after finding out it was ours. Macie had fun exploring with me and checking our each room.

Dinning Room

Kitchen

Living Room

Laundry Room

Pantry

Master Bedroom

Master Bath

Master Closet

My favorite place my bath tub.

Master Shower

Another picture of Master bedroom

My office

Powder bathroom

My office closet. Kevin is jealous.

Front Entry

Bonus Room

First thing on the wall. Tv in the Bonus room.

Ashley's Bedroom

Allison's bedroom

Madison's bedroom

Kevin's office

Future family room

Future food storage room.

Kevin and I had all these plans that we were going to get as much as we could get moved in today while the girls were at school but it didn't happen like we wanted. We had different people coming by to hook things up and they all came at different times and took longer then we anticipated. We did get some stuff done before the girls got out of school but not as much as we wanted. Tomorrow we have an army of people coming and the weather is perfect for a move so everything should go great.

Packing again

Our living room is filling up with boxes. I can't believe that our house is finally finished. Two more days and it is ours. I can't wait.

It is going to be like Christmas unpacking all of our boxes that are in storage.

Ashley and Technology

I handed my old Ipod down to Ashley. She has mainly used it for music and games until recently. Two of her friends at school got ipods for Christmas and she has discovered that she can message them now. Her friends ipods are newer then hers so they can facetime. She ask me if she could use my ipad so she could facetime with them. It is cute to watch her on facetime.

I hope we aren't creating a monster.