Two weeks ago is when we moved from Sandy to our new apartment in Provo, and then from our old apartment in Provo to the new one. Needless to say it was a long process and very tiring. We were able to move into our new apartment on August 20th and then spent two days cleaning it to get ready for the rest of our stuff to come over and going to the old apartment a couple times a day to work on boxing everything up. It made for a very long week.
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| Jared helping with packing. |
On Wednesday (22), several of the men from our ward came over to help us load up our boxes and furniture. Two brothers helped us by letting us use their trailers. This is a picture of only one of the trailers. We had two very full trailers and some stuff in the vehicles as well. I don't think we realized we had so much stuff. :P I think most of it was furniture though. ( 8)I hope! )
We shared otter-pops with everyone who was helping us, since it was a warm day. Jared had one himself. He only got a couple tastes before it leaked all over, but I think he enjoyed it. He had his own personal play-buddy and baby-sitter during the loading and unloading. Ryan's school friend, Brettany, played with him in the yard while we worked. It was very helpful!
These are the before shots for this tour of our home. These two pictures are the bedroom. Ryan is getting pooped!
This is will be our game closet.
This is the baby's room.
This is the laundry room.
This is the bathroom.
This is the living room. Quite cozy looking isn't it. ;)
This is Ryan taking care of the heavy stuff. What a muscle man!
This is the kitchen.
This is the dinning area.
It's so much easier to look at these pictures now that we're settled in. It's a lot of work unpacking and finding places for everything. So, the next few days we had a lot of work to do. I worked on putting all our food storage and kitchen things away so that we could have a functioning kitchen (we can only afford to eat out so often, as much fun as it is). Ryan worked on defrosting the freezer.
I guess this isn't the recommended way of defrosting a freezer, but Ryan has experience on his side. ;)
By the time he was done there was this whole bucket full and some other big chunks in the sink. One of the joys of being a renter. You have to deal with whatever the previous renters have left behind.
It looked really good and was a lot more roomy once he was done. =)
Another project of Ryan's was to fix the neighbors mail box. When the brothers from our last ward came with their trailers, one parked their truck next to the mail boxes, so when his son opened the door to get out, he completely knocked the mail box off it's pole. It was pretty funny. Ryan fixed it no problem. Our biggest project of the day, was going back to our old apartment, cleaning it, and then settling things with our old landlord. :P (Some landlords are major punks and that's about all I'm going to say about that.)
Moving is a lot of work, and there's several people who were a big help!
Thank you to: Aunt Maureen and Uncle Jerry, Jason, Jessie and Adam Richens, Brother Hopkins, Brother Judd, Brothers Fisher, Roberts, Walch, and Thomas, Levi and Brettany Ruppert, Amy Peterson, and several others. We've been very blessed with great friends and family! Thanks! =)
