WE'VE OFFICIALLY MOVED!

We spent our first official night at our new house last night (Sunday night)!

The storage units arrived Thursday while I was cleaning the house, John and I unloaded most of 1 on Friday night, and then we had a couple friends come over Saturday morning to unload the rest with us.

The rest of Saturday was spent organizing boxes and beginning the ever-fun task of unpacking!

Thank God my parents watched the kids for us all day Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We could NOT have gotten this far without their help!!

By Sunday I had the kitchen pretty much organized and put away (but still quite cluttered..which I hate!), and all the bedrooms were at least ready to be slept in. :)

Today, Monday, we were able to get more unpacked and even make a run to the grocery store and Lo*we's for some odds and ends we wanted to make the house function better....little by little we're getting there. Thankfully, John has taken the whole week off so we can be completely done with the unpacking by the end of the week.

Here's a few pics of the process

The BEFORE shot:

Becca and Andrew rolling around on the new carpet on Thursday. You can catch a glimpse of the new tile and of course can see the new paint and carpet too in this shot:)

Saturday morning we discovered a new "pet" swimming in our pool..a little frog. :)

the AFTER shots.

what a mess!!!!

this one's a little fuzzy -but gives you a good look at just how cluttered my home is

finally got the kids' rooms set up..not decorated, but at least set up!

our pool was getting scuzzy looking quickly every week..so we had a new pool guy come out on Saturday to show us around our pool a bit (since we've never owned a pool and don't know much about them yet)..he said our pool was getting so dirty cuz our filter was SO clogged up it wasn't able to really catch much....so Sunday afternoon John took on the task of cleaning the filters.

Disgusting doesn't begin to cover what they were like.

You can see how brown they are....and they're supposed to be white!

It took John a good hour or more to completely clean all 4 filters-but now the pump runs great and the pool looks so sparkly clean! :)

That's the news from around here. :)

For those that have emailed me lately, I promise to get back to you as soon as I can-I'm just gonna be slower than usual right now. :)

Oh -and for those that might have emailed us on Friday or Saturday, our email was down as our provider was "moving" our account. I know quite a few people emailed us and the emails bounced back to them...so just resend them. :)