The new house

I haven't blogged in a while, I don't feel like cleaning the kitchen, Ryan is at track practice, so it seems like a good time to write a little bit about the house. Tomorrow will be our two week anniversary of moving in. We still can't believe we have this beautiful house and yard and live in this nice area. The move went well, we hired a couple of guys to come help Ryan. They loaded up the entire house, drove to the new house, and unloaded all in about four hours. It was money well spent. Why not use the EQ after Ryan has helped and organized countless moves during his 2+ years as EQP? Well, we had tons of moves in our last ward and lots of time it was crazy stuff like once a lady drove into the church parking lot on a Wednesday night with her UHaul and said she just arrived from Colorado and a friend said if she came to this church parking lot on a Wednesday night people would be able to help her unload her truck. What?!! Another time, someone called for help and he asked when they were picking up the truck and they were like, "Truck? I need to get a truck?" He planned on just asking a few close friends to help, but then I checked the price on movers and it was reasonable and we ended up moving on a Tuesday morning because we were delayed getting keys to the house, which delayed the painters, which delayed the carpet cleaner and regular cleaners, which delayed the pest control guy...." Plus, Ryan has been super busy at work so I wanted movers to do the whole move in case he couldn't even get off.

Anyway, the first night we were excited and pumped and had trouble sleeping, especially with all the new house sounds. There was a huge lightening storm during the night (I was awake, but Ryan had fallen asleep) Ryan woke up later and was really paranoid because he could hear this major drip and thought that something was leaking on the house. I told him it had just rained, so he went out on the balcony and there was a tiny hole in the rain gutter right there. Ha.

We are still living in total chaos, I feel like. Ryan's dad came out right in the beginning for over a week and just tinkered around. He fixed a leaking toilet, got all the outlets working, and mucked out the yard that has been neglected for 2+ years. Very importantly, he fixed all the sprinklers and found some major leaks and repaired those too. At 9:00 pm one night he was still working hard, using the dremel to carve down a piece of metal to insert into our shower door. My parents also came too and my dad spent an entire day pruning down the yard even more. They also brought a small Uhaul trailer of everything from my bedroom at their house. Sheesh, you'd think after 35 years they'd be resigned to keep my stuff forever.

Willa also started kindergarten! Yay! I'll post about that later. The pool as been the perfect after school activity. We come home and she has some time to swim and unwind from it all. Having a pool is very awesome at the moment. The kitchen sink looks out at it through the backyard and it's so peaceful and nice. I love that the girls can jump in and swim without having to pack anything up and go anywhere. Plus, the previous owner built a little shower outside, so we finally hooked that up this weekend. When they are done swimming, we just wash them off and wash their hair right there and then straight into pajamas. It's so efficient!

We are still mostly furniture-less and will remain so for a long time. It's a struggle to make things fit when they don't really fit, if that makes sense. The toys are all over the place right now. I need new systems and a routine. I try to clean and tackle the last remaining boxes in the garage but sometimes I just stand in a stupor unsure where to start. But, we're almost there. We love everything so far and even though it's a new part of town and new neighborhood, we find that it's very nice and actually prefer it up here because it's so quiet and peaceful.

And that's enough procrastinating for now, I've got to clean the kitchen. Plus, this post is already longer than I expected it to be!

After just a few days of swimming in the pool, June is already doing so much better! She can almost swim the width of the pool. Ryan was doing "swim lessons" with her on Saturday and she decided she was "tired of kicking" and just liked to float instead. I love that she's getting a good feel for the water.

Dinner after swimming.