Friday, August 21, 2009

Moving

After six months out of work Michael was offered a job that required moving. Thankfully the company paid. We took a couple trips to look for houses and picked out a beautiful one. With the help of my Mom we packed everything up in about a week and got ready to go. The day before the move we got a call saying the house had been sold. We went with our second choice, a house from the same landlord on the same block. I was very upset cause I was just in love with the first house and wanted to eventually buy it but... I have become settled with the house we got and am pretty happy with it. Sunday morning Mike and the movers loaded the truck while I ran errends and some ppl from the congregation helped clean up the yard and basement (the owner of the St Louis house was a freind from the congregation). We finally had loaded up around two and Michael and the boys left. I stayed to clean which would not have gotten done at all if my mother in law hadnt stuck around and helped- mostly she cleaned and I fed the baby. Around three Eliana, Nathaniel and I headed out. We made good time but got stuck on the road for a half an hour behind a horrible wreck. There was a truck and RV completely turned over, we arrived just after it happened before even the emergency vehicles arrived. Later, I made a wrong turn and went about 1/2 hour out of my way. By the time I got to the new house things should have been unloaded but... the movers never came. We had to get a hotel room and the next day we hired day labor and got moved in. Unpacking is going pretty slow with Michael putting in long days and me having a one month old but we are here in Illinois for good now (at least a year lol) we will see how we like it but we really dont want to move again

Eliana turns Three











We had tickets to the magic house and my Mother was in town so.. we ate at Bob Evan's, went to the magic house, then home for cake and presents. In spite of being in the middle of moving it seems to have gone well.