Moving Weekend

Moving weekend arrived quickly and it was all hands on deck for sure!  Katherine took Emily, Hannah and Claire for the weekend which was such a HUGE help!!  They had so much fun playing with their cousins.  

They went over to Brett's parents' house and got to paint, paint their nails and ride the Sanders' golf cart! Fun for sure! 

Meanwhile, back in Greenville, we were a bunch of busy bees.  We filled our huge U-Haul up and needed another trailer.  Slightly embarrassing how much stuff we have even after I cleaned out as I was packing up!!  We were very thankful for my dad and brother and for a couple guys from our church that helped us make it happen!  

After everything was loaded it was time to clean so we could be ready for their walk through on Sunday afternoon.  It was a long, tiring weekend and we're glad it's behind us, but thankful things went smoothly.  

On Sunday night after church we took the kids back by our Pheasant Ridge house so they could see it one last time before we closed the next morning.  It was a little sad. My tender-hearted Hannah was sobbing most of the whole time we were there. 

Emily was 2 and Hannah was seven months when we moved into this house; we brought our last two babies home from the hospital to this house. We've had a wonderful 6 years here and we could not be more thankful.  

We closed on the Pheasant Ridge house at 10:00 am and on the Oak Brook house at 1:00 pm that same Monday afternoon (Sept 24th). Everything went smoothly except we had a piano moving company lined up to come to the Pheasant Ridge house at 9 on Monday morning to pick up our piano and hold it on their truck until we were ready for them to deliver it to our new house later that afternoon.  We had worked out price and logistics, but somehow they wrote down the wrong date and we found out at 9:20 (as we were driving to the closing in Spartanburg) that they weren't coming.  Bert and I started scrambling trying to get our huge piano out of our house.  We ended up getting a different moving company to come get it and move it to our new house (the other homeowners let us put it in there a few hours earlier).  We had to pay double what we were going to pay because it was a same day moving request, but at that point we weren't too worried about the price....we just needed it moved.   We had to sign one extra document saying that we would have the piano out by the end of the day (we ended up getting out by about 11) and that we would cover any damage that was caused by moving it out, but the new buyers were very nice about it.  

Bob and Sherry, a couple in our church who live in our new neighborhood, were going to to be on a trip the week after we closed on our new house and were so sweet to let us stay at their house while we painted, had carpet put in/cleaned, etc.  We were so thankful to have Bob and Sherry's house to stay in that week.  It was a huge help as we didn't want to move our stuff in until we finished the work.  

Here is a sleeping picture from Bob and Sherry's guest room.  Hannah was using Em as a pillow.  

The girls and I stopped by a couple times a day while the guys (Bert, my dad, Billy, Eddie and others) were working on the house.  The girls loved getting to check things out!  Here are a few pictures that I got of the four of them that first week.  

We officially moved in (and started sleeping in the house) on September 29th.  Everything had been stored in our garage for that week in between.  We've been unpacking boxes the last couple weeks and I feel like we're getting close to being settled (not decorated, but the boxes are mostly all gone). Also a huge thank you to my parents for putting in a bajillion hours helpings us get moved and settled!  We love y'all!! 

The girls love their space upstairs, the backyard and the cul-de-sac and Bert and I love the porch and taking evening walks on the beautiful golf course that borders our back yard.  We have a lot more work to be done, but we're so thankful to be exactly where we are!