Moving

.....Moving......that's all I really have to say about that!!!   LOL  I absolutely loathe moving but you might not know that from all the times we have actually moved!  This move was really bitter-sweet.  We had actually been in Casa Grande just over 3 years! (Hard to believe I know!)  Moving into that house we thought we would be there a lot longer and it was a great house for our size family.  Well it was time to move back to the valley and try and find a house in the area we are going to be serving in.  It's a bit different though this time because Jay will be working full time and church planting part-time full time.  ;)

 So we now live as far west as you can get and still be part of the east valley!  It took a couple of weeks of house hunting, as we are having to downsize considerably but we finally found a house that we can live with.  (Not our favorite but it works well for us now and knowing that it gets us back up here and we can search out houses so when we are ready to buy again we can take some time looking).  The house is considerably smaller but it actually fits us well and we needed to purge a lot of stuff anyways!  We are so excited to have a pool that we were willing to overlook other things.  However, the pool does take up the entire back yard so we will see how we do this winter.  Luckily there is a big park nearby and we are all getting bicycles.  We are actually close to everything now and our drive to go anywhere is cut by 30-40min.  That will be so nice!

Moving with us doesn't just happen in 2 days, no the last couple of moves have dragged out by at least a week.  We were blessed that someone loaned us their 33 foot enclosed trailer to use. And we also had several guys with muscles that helped too!  :)   We filled the trailer 3 times plus countless trips with the suburban.....  But alas we finally got everything moved, had two yard sales, countless things donated to goodwill and a bulk trash pick up.  I have to say the hardest of it was parting with my baby stuff and maternity clothes.  It was time to bless someone else with all of that instead of hanging onto it.  So I donated it all to the Crisis pregnancy center. 

I am amazed I even took pictures because I was not in the mood for that!  And as you can see in the pictures the kids were ever so helpful with riding up and down the ramp on their scooters.  LOL

   We have a lot of stuff but Jay's desk and the treadmill had to go up stairs.......yea..... at least the piano and hide-a-bed stay downstairs.  LOL

Give us about a week to get most stuff settled in and then we need to finish up the school year.  Then I am sure over the summer there will be more purging going on!

We have moved!!!

What a crazy busy two weeks it has been!  The week before the move Jay and I were both sick.  We were in bed all day on Tuesday and he missed a whole week of work! But I don't want to complain at all because we have received so many blessings along with this move!  We started moving last Thursday.  A gentleman from our church owns a construction co. and his crew didn't have any work so he basically paid them for three days helping us move!  So on Thursday and Friday we had 7 construction guys with two huge trailers do most of our moving.  Then on Saturday they showed up again along with people from our church.  They all showed up around 7:30am and we were heading to the new house by 10:00am!  We were unloaded and ready to go to have lunch by 1:00pm.  Another gracious lady from our church provided lunch for everyone.  (We have never had this kind of help with moving) Later that afternoon my dad and mom came over to see the house and visit.  The one thing I like about moving is it is like a fresh start with cleaning and organizing.  My mom helped me to start organizing the kitchen.  I have so many cabinets and drawers!!  Our new house is MUCH larger it is so nice to have space.  I even have a separate school room which I will post pictures of as it comes together. 

Another blessing..... Jay went to church on Sunday but the rest of us stayed home, we were exhausted and Tasha was still sick.  During church service, Pastor Don presented Jay with three huge tubs filled with canned goods, boxed goods, paper towels, toilet paper, cleaning supplies and even gift cards.  I couldn't belive it!!!  It was all done as a welcome and help us during our move.

So we are slowly getting settled in we are painting as well so I will share pictures soon.  I have to have the school room mainly done by this weekend becasue we NEED to start school back next week!  two weeks off has been long enough!

8 Days and Counting.....

 The count down is on till moving day...  The kids have been really anxious about it so we decided to make a chain like you make to count the days till Christmas.  Well they couldn't make just one and share they each needed their own.  As you can see  I took this picture a few days ago and yes the chains have the same days just different size loops.  We are trying to get all packed this weekend.  I hope we will make it.  I worked in Anastasia's room today and do not know how someone can fit that much stuff into one room!    I am exhausted and ready for bed!  We have another big day of packing tomorrow.

Moving

It is official we are finally moving! We are moving to Casa Grande it is about 45 minutes from here. It will mean only a ten minute trip to church instead of 50minutes. I think I told everyone that Jay became a worship pastor at a church there in December. It is part time but they want to bring him on full time in May or June. Our lease wasn't up here until June but we found a house in Casa Grande that we fell in love with and we found renters for this one. God is so good!! So the big moving day will be March 21st. We are up to our eyeballs in boxes and yes I needed a break so I decided to come blog.

So I won't be keeping up with my Menu Plan or Organizing memes and my blogging will be sporadic until we are settled. We are doing just the basics for schooling in the mornings and then packing in the afternoons. We will still be traveling quite a bit for Anastasia's play practice, Joshua's little league and the girls dance all going till May. But I won't complain because I am so excited about our new house and the way everything is lining up.