Moving day...and our 6th anniversary

Well, moving day has come and gone. All of our worldly possesions are at 425 Euclid Avenue. However, we are NOT living at 425 Euclid Avenue. Upon entering the house on Saturday, we found a note from our landlord explaining that the house was not ready. Mind you, we knew that the downstairs bathroom would not be ready because they are in the process of completely redoing the entire bathroom, but we thought that we would be able to stay there. But, we were wrong. Luckily, I had packed overnight bags, and so after all of the boxes were left inside the house, we went to Mom and Dad's and spent the night.

The moving out went very smoothly. E slept until 9. So, Jut and I were able to get a lot of those last boxes finished without E "helping". When the guys from St. Louis showed up, we plopped E in her high chair to eat a couple of popcicles that wouldn't make the move and she sat there for at least an hour watching all of the furniture get moved out of the house. She was quite entertained by the entire process. She also was fed numerous donut holes as she sat there...I don't even want to guess how many she ate that morning! But, she was a happy girl all day. We left our house at 2, ate a quick bite, and hit the road for Alma. E wouldn't eat any lunch at Wendy's, but as soon as we hit the road, she decided that she was hungry. So, she downed about 6 aprocots, a couple handfuls of teddy grams and she zonked out for the rest of the ride to Mom and Dad's.

The moving in wasn't quite so smooth. We went from living in a 1-story duplex to a 2-story house that is at least 100 years old. Everything in the house is built very small. Our headboard was the first piece of "big" funiture to go up the stairs...well, the wall at the turn in the stairs now has a very nasty scrape and needs a bit of repair work after the headboard passed by. Our mattress fit up the stairs because it could bend. Then, they tried my dresser...there was no way that was going to make it up the stairs. That also meant that E's dresser wasn't going to make it up the stairs either because it is deeper and longer than mine.

Now, we had a bit of a quandry...2 dresser downstairs and 3 bedrooms upstairs. How does that work out? We haven't quite got that figured out. Fortunately, the house is huge...about 1800 sq feet. So, I think that the "office" is now going to be a dressing/office area. The house also has a large foyer, and I'm thinking that E's dresser will stay in the foyer. Not ideal, but it will be workable.

You might be thinking...well, can you put any of the furniture through the windows upstairs? The windows upstairs are very narrow. Our window a/c is barely going to fit. It is definately not an option to hoist the dressers through the windows.

The fridge was alow an issue. It wouldn't fit inside the front door...so we had to pull of the front door and the doors to the fridge, but afterwards, it went right through. The couch was another fun piece of furniture to make it though that tiny front door, but it eventually made it with some pushing and pulling. So, we at least got everything inside the house...even if its not in the rooms that we thought that it would reside.

So, Sunday was our 6th anniversary. With all the craziness, we didn't even remember until we were at church. After church, we headed to the grocery store to buy stuff for lunch to feed us and my dad. We had a glorious meal of hamburgers and potato salad. Then, we crashed for the entire afternoon. Jut went to youth group at 5. When he got home, I had just put E to bed, and we decided that we needed to go to our house on Euclid to get all the boxes out of the kitchen so that they could finish doing their work in there...and maybe do something special since it was our anniversary.

So, we went to the house. Moved our boxes. Explored our new home without 20 other people around. Thought about where to place furniture...grabbed a couple more items that seemed important, and left.

So, there is supposedly a new ice cream shop in town. So, we went there...and it was closed. Well, Big Boy was where we first met for coffee, so we headed there...it was closed. The only thing open was the drive-throughs at the fast food joints. So, we went to Arbys and ordered some jalopeno poppers and a jamoca shake and drove to a park at the edge of the Pine River and played the "would have you ever imagined" game for a bit. Then, we ended our anniversary by sleeping at my parent's house for the night. Exciting day. However, it was better than the anniversaries that we spent as the dean's of camp at Wolervine...so go figure.