Meet me in St. Louey!

I have a million things to blog about, so I guess I will start from the beginning... the move! We have had such a crazy summer, that I hadn't really started packing too much. The majority of packing was done the two days after we got home from San Antonio. We didn't really have a set plan of when we were going to take off, we just knew we had our moving truck for 5 days. We had planned to just have some of our good friends help us load furniture, and then we would take care of the boxes later. Lets be real...I didn't even have everything packed. But, it turns out we have awesome friends, and our house was basically empty by the time we were done! So then the cleaning started, with the help of Adam and Anna and my grandparents, it didn't take too long (thanks guys!). Saturday night was probably one of the worst nights of sleep ever--I forgot to leave out sheets to sleep with. We just had an air mattress and one sheet. So either we were going to stick to the air mattress and not be able to move, or we were going to be freezing. Turns out both happened... Needless to say we were exhausted! We spent the night with my grandparents Sunday night, and drove to KC on Monday. My awesome parents are storing our washer and dryer, couch and some boxes for us. And here is where its starts to get interesting...

In the process of unloading the washer and dryer, we discovered a box that appeared to have something leaking inside. It was the box labeled "garage" and it was sitting on top of the box with our pillows and other misc. stuff. So great... there is some sort of nasty brown gooey crud all over. So we had to unpack everything to clean it, and find out what it was...

Turns out it was a can of stain...that I didn't even know was packed... This was just one of the many interesting things we found we we opened the boxes. Our lovely king size pillows and pillow cases had to be tossed due to lots of goo that was impossible to get off :(

Once we got everything cleaned and repacked it was time to transport everything that was staying to the basement. It was just Linc, my momma and me...dad and Casey were in Florida on a boyscout vaca..luckeys! I wish I had some pictures of our attempts to move this stuff. It was quite an ordeal.
The next day was spend resting, and Wednesday morning it was on to St. Louis. It was outrageously hot that day which was fab....we all almost passed out at least once over the course of the day. Everything was fairly easy until the last piece of furniture in the truck, a billion pound, solid wood armoire. Getting this inside and upstairs was one of the scariest experiences in my life thus far. I am shocked we actually did it. Naturally I wish I had a picture to document it, but at the time that was the last thing on my mind. Linc was at the top pulling while my mom and I were at the bottom pushing and hoping it wasn't going to topple on top of us. That wasn't even the scary part...the worst was at the top when we had to set it up right to get it through the hallway. Long story, but I ended up having to climb over the thing and switch places with Linc to get it standing upright. And that was pretty much the end of that day....the most draining thing ever! Then the next few days were spend unpacking, organizing and decorating.

Unpacking didn't take as long as I thought it would. I still have some work to do, but for the most part we are settled and unpacked! And I don't want to see another box for a while! So, here are some pictures of the new place!

And proof that I still have some work to do...

Its good to be settled. And this place would look nothing like it does now without my momma. She helped us SO much. I can't imagine doing it without her. Plus she is the best decorator ever! Thanks a million momma, you're the best!