Back to moving...

So, since the craze of the last few months is finally starting to die down a bit, I thought I'd try to post some pics from our big move (the entire 6ish miles it was across town).  We were so grateful to have friends help us load and unload the rental truck, equally grateful for my folks' giant "new" van that we were able to use for a LOT of things (without which we would have had to rent an even more ginormous truck... where did all this stuff come from?!!), grateful that my mom and stepdad were able to keep Lincoln a little longer so we didn't have to worry about him during all the madness, and especially grateful for Matt's mom for coming to help watch Benjamin and pack boxes with us.  Whew - it was an exhausting endeavor but I can't imagine what it would have been like without all that awesome generosity!

The weekend we packed up was crazy, but we were able to get a majority of the house packed up on Saturday (after Matt and I had a fabulous Baker date night on Friday visiting about five neighborhood establishments), we picked up the rental truck on Sunday morning, loaded it that afternoon, and cleaned the house that evening.  (Insert a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.)

So on Monday (10/29), after spending the night at my folks' place with Benjamin and Mimi, Matt and I drove down to Denver for our early closing on the Delaware house.  It was so sad to say goodbye to our first home, but our excitement about the second closing later in the day thankfully kept us from getting too emotional.  We enjoyed a nice breakfast and ran some errands after officially signing over the house and then headed straight to the new home closing.  Wham, bam, and there it was, we were holding the keys to our new house!

So, a bit of a picture timeline below -

Last walkable date night:

Final walkthrough with our fabulous agent (Carrie):

Packing up the Budget truck on Sunday:

Mimi keeping Benjamin occupied:

Cleaning up for the new owner:

Farewell Delaware Home!

&

Farewell Baker!

Closing! Our good friend Carrie was our agent and our awesome friend Eric hooked us up with his buddy who does mortgages and happened to get us a killer deal.  SO blessed to have these two.

Moving in after closing!

Phew, I'm tired from all this work!  Can't we just kick back and relax for a sec?? ;)

Unpacking, sleeping on the floor in the basement, painting Benjamin's room and our bedroom, and making messes...

Oh drat, we still have to get all the junk in the storage unit!

To be continued...