Packing and Moving

Our packing experience can be summed up in one word...CRAZY! I thought I was so smart and clever by starting to pack 2 weeks prior to our move. Don't get me wrong it did help A LOT but even though I had promised myself I would label every box and make lists of everything in each box (that way we could find it easy enough in our storage unit) by the end I was throwing random things into random boxes and not labeling anything at all! I got to the point where I just wanted to throw everything away and start fresh (which would have been really annoying so I'm glad my sensible husband calmed me down and talked me out of it!). I'm glad to say that eventually everything did get packed up and onto the moving van. We had plenty of room to fix a junk load of stuff and after moving it all into our storage unit we even have a pathway down the middle so we can get to things easy enough....finding things is a different story!

Here are some pictures of the kids during their last week in SB. I have a million more but I wanted to show how much they put up with from me and the craziness of moving!

It rained one of the days and even though it was cold John LOVES splashing around in it.

Many a time I would find John and Josh getting into things they weren't suppose to. Every time I would start to clean one room and feel really accomplished getting things done and 2 seconds later I would walk into another room and find a similar situation like this....my two little tornadoes doing what they do best!I can't even keep a roll of TP intact! He would unroll the entire thing and spread it all over the house.

Poor John got really mad at me one day because I forgot to give him breakfast (I know I know, Mother of the Year right?!) so he tried to pour a glass of orange juice for himself and ended up spilling it all over his pants (which he discarded immediately).

John had to take up the post of "provider" while I was busy doing stuff and tried many times to feed Joshua. It usually ended up being a bigger mess to clean up than anything else but it was really thoughtful and cute. In this picture he actually had on his Mickey Mouse ears and was trying to feed Joshua but right when I snapped the picture the Mickey Mouse ears feel backward and you can't even tell. It was really cute though.

This whole process made all of us really REALLY tired!

Here's Daniel and my dad Allen getting everything into our moving van. Of course I was so busy that I didn't take many pictures of the moving process (which I regret now) but at least it's done and over with!