We Have Moved!!

This past weekend was exciting, exhausting, fun, stressful, etc. The list goes on. But the bottom line is now we officially own our dream home and we have moved it. Everything we own is under one roof for the first time ever. That probably doesn't make much sense to most but when Matt and I got married there was no way to fit everything I owned (a full 1500 square foot house worth of stuff) into his 1800 square foot house that was already full of stuff. So we signed a lease on a storage building and filled it up. Fast forward to spring 2013 and we decided to put our house on the market. In order to do so, we had to de-clutter. Enter storage building #2. August 2013, we sell the house and move into a 1400 square foot rental with no garage or small storage building in the yard, so enter storage area #3 - the basement of my office which we filled.

So now we have officially moved everything out of the rental house, 2 storage buildings and my office into our new home. Needless to say we have a lot of work ahead of us getting everything unpacked, sorted, organized and hopefully cleaned out. I hope to have the biggest yard sale ever this spring because I know there is some stuff that we do not need.

But no matter how much work all the moving was, and how much work we have ahead of us, it was all totally worth it. We absolutely love our new house. Both the kids loved their rooms. Neither had seen their room painted and of course Matt and I had some surprises up our sleeves.

The best reaction has to go to Reagan. When we first started talking about room decor and color she wanted to go all UK. I had this fear that when she hit middle school next year she might regret that so I carefully steered her to something more girly. The walls are a bright, fun blue. Then we had a girls day to go shopping for bedding. It took a while but she finally starting leaning toward doing a zebra theme. We didn't buy anything that day and I never brought it up again. Little did she know I bought her a bedspread in zebra, curtains that are pink and white zebra and we had a good friend give us a really cute vanity table, mirror and chair. To say she was surprised when she saw it all together was an understatement. She even had tears in her eyes. That's what makes the hard parts of parenting all worth it.

Alex didn't have the same reaction but his face when he saw his "big" bed was just as fun. It was total shock and a big "whoa big bed!". We converted his toddler bed into the next phase which is a full size bed. It is very big when you see him curled up in it. But he loves it. He also loves being able to go up the stairs to his room and wants someone to go with him to play. My first area to tackle will be the playroom just to keep him downstairs when I need to!

Once the house is no longer decorated with boxes I will be sure to post some pictures of it all put together. That might be a while though....