The adventure continues.... :-)

We have our stuff!  And our cars!  And it was an adventure getting both.

Thursday, 12/2:  Got a call at 1pm from our driver (Ron) saying that he would be to our house around 3pm.  GREAT!  I have spoken to Ron daily for a few days now and I had warned him that our address does not show up on GPS (it is a very new neighborhood.... construction going on all around us).  He says "No, I have it on the GPS".  Okay, great - I will trust the confident truck driver because he does not seem interested in what I am trying to tell him.

3pm arrives and the guys are here to help unload the truck, but no Ron.  Ron is in the neighborhood with his semi truck trying to get here.  Did I mention it is snowing?  And our neighborhood is FILLED with round-a-bouts?  And we live at the top of a hill?

Against my better judgement, I hand my cell phone to the unloader guy and trust him to give Ron directions to our house.  I also provide unloader guy with a map of our neighborhood.  Apparently, unloader guy did not take the class in 5th grade that teaches a person how to read a map - that did not go well.  Unloader guys #1 & #2 then run around up and down our street trying to find Ron.  Uhmm... not very successful there.

Unloader guys foot prints in the snow.  It was quite the show.

45 minutes later, Ron is driving up our icy, snow covered hill with his giant semi truck.  Lets just say that Ron was not a very happy guy at that moment.

See the semi?! It was slow going up the hill, but he made it!

 And we have stuff!  The first thing Elijah saw was his laundry basket.  He was so excited for his laundry basket.  It was cute.

Yah!  Our stuff!

Did I mention that during all of this Marty is at work?  And Gavin needed a nap?  And it was almost dinner time?  And you have to check off a box on an inventory for each item that comes in the door.  It was quite the adventure.  Marty had a dinner for work that night, so it was just me, 30 some boxes, 2 little boys and a mission to find the toys.  We were successful.  

The house on Friday morning.  It doesn't look much better than this now.  Here is to a busy weekend.

So, part of the driver's responsibility is to set up the beds.  The only bed that we moved is Gavin's crib.  Driver Ron and unloader guy #1 who can't read a map, set off to set up the crib.  There was a lot of swearing going on under their breath and they were less than happy.  I eventually just told them to go and we would figure out the crib... seemed like a much better option.  When I go in to put Gavin to bed in the pack-n-play I see that driver Ron has left his drill and tool set here.  Great.  So, on Friday we got to go to FedEx and overnight the drill to Ron.  Elijah drew him a picture and wrote him a letter.  Maybe that will cheer him up a bit?

Elijah's drawing & letter to driver Ron

After all of that, we have all our belongings minus one campchair that somehow got lost between Colorado and here.  So, we need to fill out a claim form and do something with that in between shipping back the driver's tools, unpacking the boxes and setting up the crib.

Good times.  :-)