Friday Fill-Ins

1. Birthdays are __on hold until further notice for me! I'm frozen @ ohhh 40____.
2. __Spring__ is my favorite season because __new life that it brings____.
3. I feel my best when _I am busy...and can mark things off of my to do list________.
4. __Japenese ummmm goody goody sauce is ummmm goody goody____ is my favorite food!
5. First impressions are _are deceiving - most of the time people can be anyone they want to be (fake) for first meetings it is time that reveals true character______.
6. The best piece of advice I ever received was __Do not marry the man you can live with but the one that you can't live without_________.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to _a good nights sleep unlike last night hopefully____, tomorrow my plans include _Jakob and Rylee's birthday party____ and Sunday, I want to __go to the church we were members of when we first moved here 20 years ago to see old friends___!

Friday Fill In

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Friday Fill In #77
1. A smile is __the best thing you can wear________.
2. _Canasta_________ is my favorite board or card game.
3. I would love to have more ___MONEY_______ in my life and less ____BILLS______.
4. When I think of the Summer Solstice, I think of __My sister in law - dancing________.
5. I just remembered I need to __unpack more boxes - thanks for the reminder________.
6. One of my favorite song lyrics goes like this: _You Raise Me Up ......_________.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to _Spending time with the grandkids ____, tomorrow my plans include __yard work___ and Sunday, I want to _have a picnic in my daughters back yard & prepare for 2 job interviews on Monday____!

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Friday Fill-Ins (Done on Sunday???)

1. _UNPACKING_____ is high up on my bucket list.
2. My favorite quote is _You prefer stir fry?_____; it's from __Police Academy II____.
3. __My lovely Daughter in Law__ inspired me to start blogging.
4. Strawberries are best _dipped in sugar____.
5. __Boxes falling on my head and no one finding me is___ in the last dream I remember having.
6. The most enjoyable time to go for a walk is __Evening as the sun is setting___________.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to _(this is cheating since it is already Sunday afternoon so I will forgo it this week____, tomorrow my plans include _____ and Sunday, I want to _____!

After HOURS - DAYS unpacking.......

We actually have a house we can live in after unpacking a bazillion boxes with oh just thousands to go...........

I will share with you the rooms that the kids are coming to next week (I can't believe how much I have missed them!!!!)

Here's Kailey's and the boy's rooms.... the only ones 90% finished but we felt in important for them to come into "their stuff" so they felt at home.

Packing Day - More Detailed

We spent all day Friday - I mean ALL DAY finishing packing and loading the truck. My bestest friend Julie and Randy - killed themselves getting all they could on the truck (we had to leave things behind cause there was just NO MORE ROOM) anyway. Britt and I between fighting kiddos and packing - carried boxed out to them on the truck. Andrew took his scooter out to the truck - walked it up the ramp - and turned around announced "I go down" and preceeded to ride the scooter down the ramp from the truck and had a total melt down when I intercepted his plan and told him he could not. Trace helped with all his might carried boxes bigger than him and basically would not get very far from Julie all day - wouldn't even ride with me to go get lunch. There are not many people in this world Trace will hang with over me but Julie is one of them. (which I'm okay with since there aren't many people in the world I would rather be around than Julie either). AC came home from school and helped also - until Robyn's girls got there then it was PLAY TIME. AC asked if he could ride his scooter down the ramp and understood (without a meltdown) why we said no. Difference in 4 years - NO TEARS!

Robyn, Dennis, Cindy, and David came over to pick up Randy's Motorcycle for Dennis and left with Patio Furniture, Futon, lamps, laundry baskets and the Motorcycle.........which was wonderful for us to not have to figure out what to do with it since it would not fit on the truck. They got Pizza and we had an impromptu party on the Lanai - sitting in their new patio furniture and our lawn chairs......(remember this it comes in handy on the next - previous post.....the one named I'm Back - Part 2)

Everyone was finally gone a little before 11 - Julie and I made one of our famous last minute runs to WALLYWORLD (aka Wal-Mart) since I was deligent to keep our air mattress off the truck so we could sleep on it but not so sharp in keeping an air pump to put air in said mattress. I said goodbye to Britt and her family before I left (they won't be joining us until the week after Father's Day). It is kind of a tradition of mine and Julie to do late night runs to Wal-Mart - in fact I think I have been in Wallyworld more after dark with her than during daylight hours. Got a call from Brittney - she couldn't find her keys and was hoping they had ended up in my purse - they didn't ....... I figured they ended up in a box on the truck and promised I would mail them back to her. The next day Julie found them in her purse and was able to let herself in the old house so she could get the rest of the stuff we had left behind for her (So if you live near go check out her Garage Sale - you might can pick up something you need CHEAP hehehe). Another way God was at work in this move was her having Britt's keys cause RC was getting his brakes worked on....so he could "stop by" hehe.

I'm back post 2

When we should have been on the road we were spending about 3 hours doing this........because of this.

We had all our belongings loaded......we were less than 2 hours from the house having killed ourselves not to mention working Julie and Brittney like slaves the day before to get everything loaded on Friday night so we could get an early start on Saturday morning. Our early start ended up with some relaxing time on the side of the road......now let me tell you about how God blessed us with this. I started out so tense and tired and cranky my body ached and I was stressed. The truck blew the high pressure oil hose and that was all she wrote. We pulled over and Randy called Penske. They sent someone. I got out the laptop and posted on Craigslist about the curb alert of the things we could not take with us because the truck was only so big (and it was the biggest one). I chatted with my BIL in Saudi - read blogs then the sun moved enough that I didn't have good shade anymore between the truck and the beast I drive. Randy had checked the load earlier to make sure everything was fine and thanks to an impromptu Pizza Party the night before two of the lawn chairs were loaded on the back of the truck so we pulled them out and had a nice comfy place to sit. I looked around and noticed that there was a "flood control" area - pure flat cement to direct the run off just a few feet away with Trees shading it. ( the only place for miles because I looked - wow isn't God's timing GREAT!) We moved to the flat surface and chatted - which I have to admit was probably the first time in the week he had been home that we just sat and talked about our dreams, our missing each other during the last few months and our plans for the future. We took a nap - we had a mechanic come look at the truck and establish that it could be fixed with out having to unload and reload everything on another truck. He went and got the part we sat in the shade with the coolness of the breeze blowing over us. Pure Relaxation! Seriously it really was. When we got back on the road I could feel the difference in my tension and Randy said he could also. We only got as far as Tallahassee that night because of the hours broke down but we slept great and started out the next morning refreshed.

Randy drove (I was never a truck drive and he was in a past life - so my job was to keep him awake.....which I did very well thank you). We made it through Alabama, Mississippi, and most of Lousianna without any problems. We stopped in Shreveport to get gas and a trucker told us that the lights on the bed and tow trailer weren't working - so we sat and waited for a mechanic again this time for only 2 - 3 hours (making a total of 7 hours we weren't moving in our MOVE). The guy comes and fixes the truck we make it to Tyler (about 3 hours away from our new HOME) and stop for the rest of the morning since it was about 2 a.m. at this time so it wasn't really for the night. Then we rolled on in - My parents called to see if they could be of any help unloading......be of any help they say - we would NEVER have gotten it done without them! They will never volunteer again!

After many many hours on the road we finally pulled up and saw this......... my first glimpse at my new HOME.....isn't she a beut!

My honey he done good in picking er out!

I'm back post 1

Well we are moved. Our house is coming together (if you do not want to park in the garage where there are still lots and lots of boxes to be unpacked.) Here's a quick run down of the memories we made on the way.

In the midst of packing we celebrated Kailey's turning 6 months (we have always celebrated 1/2 birthdays with Britt's kids - started because I couldn't wait for a whole year with AC and then the tradition was a must.) Here's a picture from the party.