8/2/15 - 2 Days in and Tons Left to Do

Phew.  It's been a crazy couple of days.  Before I go any further I have to give huge thanks to my friends Sam, Meghan and Paul for helping us move yesterday. It was most definitely back breaking work and we couldn't have possibly done it without you guys.  

So the last couple of days have been a whirlwind.  For those that haven't been following along, my wife and I had crammed most of our worldly possessions into a 15x25 storage unit because we were subletting a small apartment to cover the time between selling our old house and closing on this one.  So for the last month and a half we've been living in about 900 sq/ft with only the bare necessities and not a lot else.  The storage unit was completely full and what wasn't able to fit was stuffed in the apartment along with our two beds, desk, sofa, and all the random stuff we'd bought for the new place. 

To give you an idea of what that looked like:

We closed on the house Friday and had to be completely moved out of the apartment by today and as an added constraint, our storage unit's rent renews Tuesday at $275 for another month so we really wanted to get everything out of there to avoid having to pay another months rent for it to sit empty.  Oh and did I mention that we planned to paint

A good bit of the house too?

So after renting a u-haul (which was a disaster) and calling in favors with some friends from work, we dove in.  The nice thing was that the storage unit was only a mile and a half from the new house so the many trips it took didn't take all that long.  The bad thing was it was very hot and the apartment was on the second floor and of course the house is three levels so it was grueling work. Oh yeah, did I mention we had to move our front load washer and dryer upstairs too? :(

As of tonight though, I'm happy to say that were all moved!  The apartment is clean and empty and so is the storage unit!

We are no where close to settled in and it will no doubt be a while before we are, but the hardest part is over with, it's all moved (and all in our garage lol)

I managed to get this whole upcoming week off of work so I plan to hopefully get a lot of the settling in completed.  We've already starting painting too, so stay tuned for the pictures that will be sure to follow!