Move # 3 - Storage to the House

Move # 3 was a success! We were homeless when we came back from the honeymoon on Sunday, and by Monday at 10:00 AM the house was ours. Mike went immediately to Budget to rent a truck and fortunately he had his dad and brother Phil meet him at storage to start loading everything up. I also lucked out because Mike's mom and Sarah met me at the house to help me clean before everything was moved in.

The bottom floor was pretty much ready to go when the boys arrived. They brought in most of the furniture for downstairs, and then the rest went into the garage. Once the upstairs was vacuumed and cleaned then they started assembling beds and bringing in the bulky furniture. We did what we could, but by 5:00 we were all exhausted. So, we took a little break. Mike's mom started to put together dinner and I went to pick Sage up from daycare. She was certainly confused when we arrived at the house. But, she just walked around, sniffing and exploring the place. I think she is very excited about her new home!

After dinner, Mike's family headed back to Littleton. Mike and I did a little more unpacking and then went to bed early, because it was a long day. Plus Mike had to go back to work on Tuesday. The process has certainly been very slow - unpacking, organizing, and finding a place for everything, but we are getting there. I should be able to post pictures of the house all put together soon. Especially, with our new living room furniture!

Move # 2 - Dunstan's Landing to Storage

I think we were a little crazy to even think about moving out of the apartment the day after the wedding, but we did it! We woke up Sunday morning, went to church and then met up with family for breakfast. Afterwards we went to Mike's apartment to 1. clean up from the girls getting ready, 2. pack up what was left lying around, 3. load up the truck and 4. ship it all to storage.

Thankfully, Mike's mom was able to stop by and pack up all of the refrigerated items. My mom and grandmother helped me with packing up the leftover things. Mike along with his brothers, sisters, my brother, and his dad were able to work on loading the truck and making sure that it would all fit! It probably took about 3-4 hours to load it all. Then after my family headed home, Mike's family went to storage to unload everything. Kelly was a huge help with stacking and organizing things, so that it would all fit from the truck into storage. It was a close call!

While they organized the storage unit I stayed behind to clean and vacuum the apartment. I even had time to take a little nap on the not so comfortable floor. When they returned an hour later, we packed up what was left into the cars. Phil and Jane went in one car, because they were headed towards Boston. Then the other five of us and Sage crammed into Mike's car to drive to his parents house in Littleton, MA.

Once we arrived we had a lovely dinner, opened a few gifts, organized our luggage for the honeymoon and then went to bed!!! Unfortunately, after the wedding my camera decided to stop working, so I do not have any photos of the moving preparations. But, I was able to snap a few when we got back and started to unload it for move # 3 - into the house!

Thank you to everyone who helped! We could not have done it without you!

Move # 1 - Kittery to Dunstan's Landing

It is official - I am no longer a resident of Kittery. It was a very sad day when I left the apartment - the last three years went by so quickly. The first move started when Dave and some of the guys moved Katie out on Thursday night. Then Mike came by on Friday and the two of us loaded all of my stuff into the Clean Harbors truck.

The most obnoxious part of the whole thing was that our landlord decided to have someone paint both sets of steps Thursday during the day (without informing us). By the time Katie and I showed up there was no way of getting into the apartment (so we had to find errands to do for a few hours). Then he was quite upset that we would be moving things out all day and tried to put plywood down to keep from scratching the paint (which didn't work too well). He even showed up at the apartment at 6:00 to watch the guys moving stuff and make sure everything went okay (it was kind of creepy). Then sure enough he showed back up on Friday to touch up the paint and I then informed him that I would be moving stuff later that night too (luckily he didn't show up to watch).

Anyway - all of the stuff was moved out and I went back to finish up the cleaning on Monday. Then Katie picked up the rest of the kitchen/living room items, got rid of all of the trash and took care of the last minute details. Now all of my big stuff is sitting in storage until we get back from the honeymoon and we can move into the house!!!!!!! So, sadly this was only move #1 for me. The 2nd move will be the day after the wedding when we move everything into storage and then the final move into the house (hopefully August 3rd). CRAZY!

After all of the moving I forgot to get a picture of all the stuff loaded into the truck - BUMMER!