The Blanchard Family: Moving Day!

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Moving Day!

Saturday April 18th was moving day! We would be closing on our house April 22, which was the following Wednesday, and unfortunately we still hadn't found a house yet. :( So, this meant that we were going to be moving in with my parents! We had rented a storage unit, so some things were going to storage, some things were going to my aunt and uncles', some stuff to my cousin's, some to Erik's parent's house and then some (the stuff that we would need immediately) to my parent's house. Wow, that sounds really crazy, and quite frankly it was! Packing was hard, as we had no idea how long we would be at my parent's and how long it would take us to find a house. There were some obvious things that we wouldn't be needing, like stuff from our kitchen, because my parent's house is obviously fully furnished. :) But then there were things we were trying to figure out where to send because we didn't know when we would be able to use them next. We had been trying to take stuff out to the storage unit ourselves, things we knew we wouldn't be using, but it was hard, as we still had to live there, our kids still needed a few things to play with/do, and we still had to function in that home up until that Saturday. I had tried to pack up as much as I could before hand, but lets be real, with three kids, 6 and under, packing can be a bit of a challenge. :) So, even though I felt like we had quite a bit packed before hand, it seemed like things just kept coming out of the woodwork on moving day! We were so blessed with the people who had offered to help us move. My parents, Erik's parents, my two cousins and each of their families, my aunt and uncle, a friend from church, and a couple of Erik's coworkers from church all showed up that Saturday, what a blessing!!

I had told everyone we were going to start at 9:00 am, and by about 9:15 our piano was already out the door and loaded onto a truck! The rest of the large furniture was also loaded and most of all the big stuff was gone by about 11. We were then left with boxes and finishing putting all that little piddly stuff in boxes and making sure it got to the right spot. Around noon, we all stopped for lunch and then kept going. I brought Grace to my parent's house to take a nap around 2:00, and then stayed there with her while she slept and helped unload anything that came over there. Erik directed the rest of the stuff out of our house and by about 3:30 most everything was gone! Crazy! There were a few odd and end things we had to get out that Erik took care of Sunday afternoon, and Monday. Then Tuesday evening, we all went back over for one final walk through and good-bye to our first home! Here are a few photos form the day!