The moving truck

I don't think this kitchen is as big as the one I left. Where is the kitchen? It took over 4 days to get all these unpacked and put away. Some had to go into storage.
I can see the counters!!!!!!


WE were so excited that the moving truck showed up. the kids couldnt wait to get some of their stuff. Isiah was so patient and waited for his new spiderman bike to come off the truck. It never came off. Bless his little heart. As soon as Duane gets paid, its off to get him one. The truck was only half full but we still did not get it all in the house. We had to rent a storage place. As I am unpacking, I am wondering, why did I bring this? and this?

Moving Day has arrived!!!!

I think we had close to 300 boxes! But not too much furniture

Moving Day came and they were early! We were still packing while they were loaded. I do not recommend this moving company to anybody! We had a lot of hassle and many things in the end were missing and heavily broken. Email me if you need to know the company.

On the other side, the moving guys themselves were great. As you can tell from these pics, Our kids made friends pretty easily. These guys were awesome! They were all from the NJ area. Two had been raised in the foster system and one was from Africa.
I do forget all of their names at the moment- with Nathaniel
ELi, Isaiah and Nathaniel

Miss Magy being cool
Nathaniel thinks he is really cool
Mom has strong guys to move her furniture!
He is the boss!
Isaiah offered the guys one of cookies that nana had given him
It really touched this guy I think.

Moving to CA in 8 days!!!!

Well, the movers come on June 2nd and between packing, getting the new construction finished up, having a daughter move out and another one get engaged, setting up our house for a vacation rental, finishing up a commissioned painting, and celebrating a birthday or two every month since Feb. , I have been busy!

I really had good intentions of keeping the blog more current and I apologize to those of you who follow. I will have to move some pictures from facebook over here to update.

We are really excited about our move and are SO GLAD that we are flying now instead of driving. I found a great flight that leaves Nashville and arrives in Sacramento six hours later. no changing planes! That will help tremendously in getting this crew there. If they had an app that would let me blog through my phone, I might get more on here. maybe they do and I haven't discovered it yet.

We have 6 days before we leave town and no house to live in, in CA! we have looked and looked but there is none BIG enough where we would like to be living! Through it all, we are trusting that God has it all worked out. We do have a place for 10 days to stay in while we house hunt and the kids can swim and enjoy themselves.

So in case I don't post for another few weeks, I'll see you in CA!!

Packing, Packing!!!

All the boxes in the garage

I have been like a mad woman on the packing. Thinning out has been good but tedious! There comes a point when you just want to throw everything in the trash or give away but then there might be that important thing you need to organize. We definitely have to thin out because the houses in CA are less than half the sizes here. But it is coming along and I pray that I will get it done in time. There are already 100 boxes! I bought our plane tickets already and because I was going to save $100 per ticket, we moved our move out date up 4 days. So now we fly out on June 6th.

Our hearts are ready for this move and we are excited about what God has in store for us.