Daunting task

When you haven't updated in over a month, that's what the blog becomes... A Daunting task...

I am finally rolling my sleeves up and getting dirty - here's your update.

Well, we've been living in our new home for a little over a month.  We really couldn't be happier.  Our closing was pushed back a full week, but we believe that was God taking control.  We had so much more help than we would have, had it been the week earlier (and trust me, we're pack-rats and needed a lot of help). 


On Thursday, May 26th, we closed at about 2pm and met the former owners of our cute little home.  Mary and Ricky.  (they're going through a divorce, but were pretty amicable for the closing purpose).  They were very nice, filled us in on a lot of the info we should know being new to Middleboro.  Their kids have been in the school system their whole lives, and are good kids, so they were giving us advice about the schools and the local area.  We actually joked around a lot with them and I felt like we'd totally hang out - if the circumstances were a little different.

We left the closing, went to our apartment and loaded up my car and Ryan's Dad's truck with as much as we could before we headed to the house. I took the paint that we had bought a week earlier and Ryan got a ton of other things.  I got to the house first and went around to the passenger's side door, opened it, and out fell two cans of paint; one of them pouring all over the driveway.... I stood there... What the heck should I do?  So I whipped my rings off and stuck my hands in the paint trying to grab the lid of the can and attempting to push it back on the can and flip the two over.  Welp, that didn't go over as planned, in fact; it only made the spill worse and let more out of the can!! Yikes... nice first day!!

Ryan pulled up just as I got the can upright... His face was priceless.  To that I said, "Welcome Home?!?"
After asking how it happened and laughing at me, his response:  "I am so glad that wasn't me that did that!!" 

Luckily, it was the paint for the spare room, and not the kitchen or other two bedrooms.  That night, we started painting.  We painted one full coat in Maddie's room, and one coat in our room.  Then went back to the apartment to sleep.  The whole time at the apartment, we just wanted to be at the house!  That next day, Ryan had to work and I had the day off.  I went shopping and bought some things that we needed and met Ryan at the house after work to continue painting.  Matt and our friend Erin came to help paint.  We got the second coats in the bedrooms painted and both coats in the kitchen done as well. They were so helpful.
We decided to put an airbed on the floor and sleep in our house that night!  We loved it, regardless of the fact that most of our things were at the apartment, we still were so happy to be in our own home.

The next day we got up at 7am and headed to the cape.  My parents had a bedroom set, couch, end tables, etc. that we needed to get.  We picked up the Uhaul in their town and met my sister and her boyfriend at my parents house to load up.  They helped us load everything and then we headed to the house.  Erin and Mike met us at the house and helped unload that first load.  Erin stayed at the house and cleaned my bathroom while we took the Uhaul to the apartment.  We loaded up a full truckload at the apartment (Justin, Mike G, and Matt met us at the apartment to load us up).  Seeing the back of the Uhaul completely full gave me such anxiety, I almost had a panic attack when we got to the house - thank goodness Erin was there and talked me down.  It just seemed so daunting especially knwoing we had so much more left at teh apartment adn we were getting things from other people as well.

after unloading that first load from the apartment, the guys went to Ryan's co-worker's house and got a sectional, two hutches, a desk and i think there was something else too!  Then they came back and unloaded.  The whole day, Erin and I were making pizzas and handing out beers so everyone had a little something to eat and drink (it was really the least we could do to provide some food for the awesome friends that took their Saturday on Memorial Day Weekend to help us!)
We were getting two reclining couches from our bff's parents, so after unloading that load, Ryan and the guys all went back to the apartment and loaded up the majority of the things that were left.  From there, they drove to Woburn to pick up the couches.  Mike and Erin were the lone survivors at this point. So Mike and Ryan drove back home and unloaded the couches into the house along with the remaining items from the apartment.  By this time it was about 10pm.  once we got things in the house and the Uhaul totally empty, it was about 11:30pm and Ryan and Mike returned the Uhaul.  Knowing we only had 60 miles included with our rental, I was dreading when that bill came in. 

Erin and Mike left at about midnight and Ryan and I made the bed and cleaned up a little (as much as you can with boxes everywhere!) and went to bed around 1:30.  The next day, we got up and started unpacking as best we could.  Around 10:30 we headed back to the apartment to get any leftover things (which there were a lot!).  Erin and Mike came by and asekd if they could help... Are you kidding, I figured they'd have steered clear after all they did for us the day before, but no, they came back for more!!! 
Mike and Tricia came back and helped us pack up the rest of everything and then helped us unload and unpack. 
We spent all weekend unpacking and getting settled in...

The Monday night, Ryan went to the Red Sox game and I went crazy unpacking and setting the upstairs up!  He got home and couldn't believe how much I had done.
The next night, Bill and Cynthia came over and we went to dinner at this great little pizza place that is .25 miles away.  After dinner, they helped us set up "man town".  We were determined to get it done because on Wednesday there was a pretty important hockey game on and Ryan wanted to have the guys over to watch it in his new "man town".
We did, and it looked great for the game!

We still have a godo amount of stuff in boxes and in the garage, but we're slowly unpacking all of that.  We're going to have a Yard Sale at the end of July so we want to sort through everything by then.  I like having the deadline because it forces me to stick to it.

The pictures are on their way, I do promise. 

We're still fixing things up - it's certainly a fixer upper.  We are just finishing the back deck which was a project in itself!! Ryan messed up his back while building it, his dad smashed his thumb, I passed out due to seeing Ryan in pain... it's been quite the ride!!

We want to redo the bathroom next - however, the waterline from the street into the house needs to be replaced before we can do the bathroom - so that is happening in two weeks.  then we'll work on the bathroom.

The roof needs replacing and we have 2 of 4 estimates back - so we'll schedule that for the fall.

We're slowly making it ours and turning it in the house of our dreams. 

So that's the update...

Happy 4th of July... thank you to all who serve so that I may enjoy my freedom!!