Moving, Part I

** NOTE:  This post was actually written the first night of our road trip back to Colorado.... I just didn't get it posted b/c I wanted to add some photos.  So, this is actually from 9/18/2011**

No matter how you slice it, moving is a lot of work.  Here is how things have gone down so far on our move back to Colorado.

- On Thursday Marty's truck got picked up from work and loaded onto the truck.  Yay!  It was a day earlier than we had planned, but it meant that the driver didn't need to navigate through the round-a-bouts to get to our neighborhood..... which after our moving in experience that seemed like a huge plus.

- Thursday night we sorted out the house and prepared for our road trip.  Since we have been in a furnished rental, we needed to sort out our belongings from the owners belongings.... and then get everything sorted out that we wanted to have with us prior to the moving truck making it to our house.

-  Friday.  We were given an estimated arrival time of 12:30-2:30 by the moving company.  I took the boys to a fun play area in the morning and we were back in time for lunch.  Then it was a matter of trying to keep them busy and out of the house until the packers arrived (since everything was sorted out and sitting around the house).  By 3p when the packers still weren't there I was getting a bit nervous.   They finally showed up around 3:30 and were there until about 7 getting everything packed and loaded.  Whew.  A long day!  One of the guys who packed up our stuff was actually there for the adventure when we moved in.  I thought he looked familiar and when I started to retell the details of the day he responded with something like "oh yeah, we were just talking about that the other day".  Which led to reminiscing and story telling with the guys packing.  It really was that much of an adventure when we moved in.

- Saturday was spent cleaning the house, doing the laundry, etc, etc and going out to dinner with some friends we will greatly miss.  :(  Oh - and Elijah and I took a little break to go check out a "Big Rig" event in town.  Totally worth it for everyone's sanity.

Elijah "driving" on the big rigs.  He made sure that we checked out EVERY one.  Of course, he also need to test out the horn, lights, and blinkers for each one.

However, then Marty and I were up late into the night doing the remaining deep cleaning that we weren't able to get done with our little helpers.

- Sunday!  Road trip day #1!  But first we had to get out of the house.  Those early morning hours were rough.  The kids decided that 5am was a good time to wake up.... which was not a part of our plan.  So, we spent the next couple hours trying to keep tiny fingerprints off all the glass that had been Windexed late Saturday night while we washed up sheets, remade beds and packed up the car.  To no avail.  We finally ended up strapping the boys in their carseats for about 15 minutes so we could tidy up the house without any helpers.

Exhausted.  Best way to describe preparing for the move.  AND that is with someone packing up the house for us!  Whew.   

Now for the roadtrip.  :)