So it’s been a month since we’ve moved and I’m just now posting pictures. PATHETIC I know! Better late than never.

We moved from a TINY one bedroom apartment into a three level townhouse. It’s a beautiful thing!!!! 🙂

We had so many friends show up to help us move. The actual move went SO fast. The guys just kept loading and before we knew it we were on our way to the new place to unload. Here are some pictures of SOME of our stuff boxed up.

So how do you keep a busy, busy 10 month old (at the time) out of your way so you can pack? Let me show you…..

Trap her in a box!

Distract her by putting cheerios in her path.

Let her play!

Thanks everyone who helped us move. Especially Stacey for unloading my kitchen even though she was 9 months pregnant, Lindsie, Susan, and Dana for spending your day cleaning my apartment and Anna who watched Hallie so we could clean. I REALLY REALLY appreciated it!

Here’s our new place…

We LOVE it!

IF you are interested here is part of a journal entry I wrote after we moved. It includes a list of reasons we love the new townhouse and the space it provides.

We went from the tiny one bedroom apartment and moving Hallie’s pack and play bed back and forth from bedroom to front room, to three floors with us each having our “own” room. Hallelujah!! (Ben keeps his clothes in the office closet and so refers to that as “his” room.) haha  Anyway, it has been fabulous and we don’t ever want to go back to apartment living. Before we moved as I would lay in bed I would make a list of all the positive things that moving would provide.

Here is my list:  1-Hallie gets her own room, which means no moving her bed or worrying about waking her up and being trapped in the opposite room. 2- more space to have people over. Before we could have one couple over at a time but no parties or large families because we simply could not fit them in the apartment. 3-Bigger kitchen to cook in! (A nice kitchen just makes me want to cook.) 4-Quiet. The apartment was in an ideal location for commuting (right next to the freeway) however the noise was almost unbearable. We got used to it in the year that we lived there but I would still cringe every time something was so loud it woke one of us up-especially Hallie. 5-People above us being loud. Hearing them and worrying that they can hear us. 6- With the noise of the street came the lights of the stop light and the cars head lights. It was so bright it was like noon day at midnight. We were able to hang black curtains to block out most of the light which fixed the problem but still, come on! 7-More space to do crafts. 8- More space for Hallie to play. 9- More space so it doesn’t look like a tornado hit our house every other day. Even after cleaning it just got messy so fast. 10-More space so things are not piled high in the corners. 11- A yard! I love flowers.