Out of the House

The time has come for us to move!  Scott is starting his new job - he is at his first day at the new job as I type this!!  And the kids and I are finishing up the last week of school.  We decided it would work out best if we moved out of our house two weeks before school ended (for various other reasons).  So last week was our move out week.  The movers came on Monday (day one of the move) and started packing. Here are Grant and I by some of the boxes.  Walls of boxes!!  

On that first day we moved into temporary lodging (the TLF) because too much of the house was going to be packed.  Here are the kids with some activity books in our TLF room.  There is less to entertain them at the TLF.

 Day two - more packing of boxes

And kids eat free day at Chevy's

We eat out more while we are displaced

So many boxes

Day three is truck loading day.

Aww, goodbye house!  While we were loading up a couple drove by to check out the house.  Presumably to see if they want to move in after we leave.  Scott and I agree, it's the best house on base (or one of them).  Largest, newest house, best floor plan, best of the on base housing developments, nice location right by the bus stop. 

Day four was cleaning day.  We paid to have the house cleaned rather than clean it ourselves.  This meant Scott could leave and start work sooner, we could check out of the house sooner (saving us money there) and save some sanity.  Totally worth it.  And because someone else was cleaning, day four was also when Scott left to drive west to start the new job.  Here he is just before heading out.   He drove to Nebraska, then Utah, then California.

And day five was check out day.  I went and did the walk around and check out.  The cleaners did a tremendous job and the check out ladies kept raving about how great our house looked and how amazing  it was that we had five children yet it was still so clean.  Hooray!

 And now we are just counting down the days.  Five more days of school!!

There are playgrounds near the TLF and I drive the kids to other ones a lot just for something to do.

Here are John and Emma in the swing.

John and Emma have been the hardest to manage in the TLF.  John won't stay in bed.  He normally sleeps in a crib.

And Emma just wants to be held all the time.  I don't have any of her baby gear.  I thought I could get along without it for a few weeks, but its been a little rough.  Especially since Scott left and I have no one else to hold her.  Matthew and Anna have both stepped up and helped me hold her a lot.  But there has been a lot of this (see picture) going on.  Poor Emma!

My friend let me borrow her bumbo seat.  I never had one of these, but Emma likes it a lot. Somewhere for her to sit at least other than her car seat.  I miss our house.  I miss the bus stop too since I now have to go pick up and drop off the kids at school.  But its only a week.  Well, now its only four more days.  Almost there!