Moving Day

We picked up the UHaul on Friday morning and loaded up all our belongings in about 7 hours. We learned a few things: we had WAY more stuff than we thought we did, packing a truck takes WAY more time than you think it will, moving is NO fun. Thanks to Becky for taking Levi off our hands for a few hours so we could get things done without his "helpful" hands and "expert" walking skills. 

The packed truck.

After a long day of loading up the truck, it was filled! Unfortunately, our mattresses and other odds and ends were still in our garage. Uh oh! We decided to call it a day and pick up an extra trailer to fill up on Saturday morning. Because everything was packed, we spent the night in a hotel (Levi's 1st time!) and had a great nights sleep and woke up rested for another day of packing. Dave packed up the last of our stuff and then we headed over to a farewell BBQ thrown by our friends the Smarts and the Holmes. We had so much fun relaxing in the backyard, eating yummy food and enjoying some time with our great friends before hitting the road. We all had so much fun that no one took any pictures! I'm a little bummed that we didn't get one last picture of our group but I think it speaks to all the quality time we were enjoying instead of chasing everyone around with a camera.

One picture from the BBQ that I stole from Becky. :)

 After the party, we drove off into the sunset with our matching UHauls. Dave got the big truck and I got the car, trailer and baby.

That's a whole lot of stuff!

 We pulled into Modesto around 12:30am and were welcomed by a train downtown and a sobriety checkpoint. We slept at my parents' house and woke up bright and early to unpack the truck into our new house! We had lots of family that met us at the house and had everything unloaded in under an hour and a half. They had all the beds and cribs assembled by lunchtime, the closets unpacked and put away and the garage organized by the end of the day. It was an amazing amount of help that we were so thankful for!

One more random trip to the Home Depot. Levi is so helpful!

We've spent our first week in our new home unpacking boxes, cleaning and trying to find where everything was put. We had more helpers this week who helped me wrangle Levi and unpack our kitchen and even got two new chandeliers hung up. It's starting to feel more comfortable but still sort of feels like we're on vacation in someone else's home! 

Hannity and Levi are feeling right at home and enjoying all the space they have to run around and play!

We have had a great first week in Modesto, Dave has had fun setting up his office and we've enjoyed getting to see so many of our favorite friends and family already. We've gotten to swim at my parents' house, have a date night out, go to Concert in the Park, Dave's already joined a softball league with a great group of guys (they won their first game!), Levi turned 11 months, we drove to Fresno to see the Lockridge family and we got to celebrate the 4th of July at the annual parade and Harden BBQ. It's been a busy but super fun first week!