All moved in

This past weekend, we officially moved into the new house. Hurrah!

Even though our lease isn't up until the end of April, since the old house is on the market and needs to be show-ready, we figured it would just be better for all involved if we moved totally into the new place sooner rather than later. And that way, it would just be done with, as opposed to it dragging on for weeks on end.

You know the adage that you don't really know just how much crap you have until you move? Too freaking true, peeps. We ended up filling a 17-foot U-Haul.....twice. Like, how did we even get that much crap? Maybe because we had a kid (although we got rid of a lot of his baby stuff...)? But still...let's just say that we'll be having one heck of a yard sale in the not-to-distant future.

Speaking of said kid...last time we moved when he was a newborn, which was its own brand of difficult. This time? We had to amuse/distract an active toddler who refused to nap. Luckily we had a whole host of friends who graciously offered their time and muscles to help us move while I remained on Owen duty, which definitely made things a lot easier. How did we get so lucky to have such awesome friends?! Seriously. We're one lucky little family, that's for damn sure. As soon as we have the house in more tip-top shape I'm making them pie.

Here's an idea of how our house looks right now, and probably will look for at least the next couple of weeks as we dig ourselves out of boxes. As you can see, Owen and Pumpkin are making themselves right at home amidst the chaos.

I'll be back soon with some tips for staging a house to sell (fyi: the house we moved out of has an offer on it already, so I'd like to think we know a thing or two!), as well as some other updates and projects. In the meantime, if you're interested at taking a look in our garage and making an offer on some stuff in there we really don't need any longer, I'm all ears. ;)