Thursday, June 30, 2011

Six Days!!!

We are out of here in six days!!! Our deep freezer is now officially empty thanks to my mom and next door neighbor (or maybe they should be thanking us! HA!) and it will be put in the garage to defrost today. We're down to the bare minimum on boxes, the girls' bedroom looks like this...
 and we're to the point where we just need to throw stuff in, because nothing makes sense anymore. There's no rhyme or reason to the stuff left. As much as it kills me to have random boxes of "stuff", that's just the way it has to be. At least we'll only have a few random boxes this time, instead of 10 or so like last time! Even though we have 3 more kids since our last move, this move is much more organized, I must say. Maybe it's because I was 7 months pregnant last time. Hmm...


On Monday, Frank will pick up one of these...

And wouldn't it be awesome and not at all creepy if our moving truck had eyes like that?! HA! We plan to start loading on the night of the 4th after the kids go to bed and then finish up on the 5th. The temps are supposed to be right around here... 
which should make for a lovely packing experience, don't you think? If you live in the Clarksville area and aren't busy on Tuesday, you're more than welcome to come help. We'll order pizza!!! Or, you know, ice cream! 

Come on, doesn't this look fun!? :) 


And then next Wednesday we will caravan out of here. Frank will be in the moving truck, my mom will be driving the suburban and I will be driving our van... I promise we won't look like this... 

And hopefully there won't be any of this happening... 

And soon we'll be in Colorado Springs, unpacking, while our new neighbors talk about all the stuff we have. And they'll be saying, "Oh my gosh, they have FIVE kids!" HA! 

But I promise that getting there will be an adventure! Stay tuned! 

11 comments:

Joy said...

I wish we could come help! Who gets to ride with the kids, or are you guys gonna split them up??

mom2natnkatncj said...

How long do you expect it will take to drive there? Are you stopping at all? I can't believe it's only 6 days away. Craziness! Don't your new neighbors have 5 kids too or was that at your first favorite house?

RK said...

As many times as I've moved (I think it's up to 27 now...) I still don't really enjoy any of it except setting up the new house. Hope all the loading goes smoothly. I can't come down to help because I have a lunch date on Wednesday! :o)

Kandi Ann said...

You make it look so easy that now I wanna move and I hate moving. I just want to find a place and never have to move again ever! Good luck and God Bless you and your family.

my family said...

how exciting....i assume your mom is flying back? unless you just dont let her leave,lol....how long is she staying with you all? hopefully long enough for her to decide to house shop?

safe travels

ourjoyfulljourney said...

Lol!
Loved all the pics...the one with the truck that you said you promise you won't look like..That's how we looked coming to VA from CALI! hahaha
I pray you all have a great move, safe travels and no problems..praying for you all! :)

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for the shoe information! I will check the Children's Place next week at the mall when we take our littlest to therapy! Praying you and your family have a safe trip while moving! And thanks again!

Cindy B.
Mississippi

Kathyb1960 said...

Renee, the thought just occured to me. Are you sure Frank can pick up the Rental truck on Monday--a holiday? I know you may have thought about that already, but it was bugging me, so I thought I'd mention it!

Tracy said...

I was 7 months pregnant when we moved from Texas to Minnesota, and we DID look like that red truck on our drive up. It was a trip to remember, what with me getting bitten by one of our stressed out cats and leaving my purse in a McDonald's playground. Hope you guys have a relatively uneventful and safe trip and Happy 4th of July!!

Alicia said...

lol Renee! I swear if I was near I would love to help, I love packing, un packing, moving, throwing stuff, and everything involved. too bad people here doesnt move much, sigh.

good luck!

soldierdeb said...

If you need any help pnce you get to the Springs please let me know!