Impromptu Photo Shoot at Ikea

In the big brown chair out front....

You know you are tired when...

neither you nor your spouse can wake up in the morning and your children resort to scrounging what they can to survive. This is what we found on the kitchen floor around 9am on Sunday morning.

Moving Day

Dear Juju finishing day 2 of painting the bathroom along with Mona while we move furniture in.

Lunch break for movers: tacos from Mi Pueblo down the street...delicious!

Mona has been a huge source or ideas, encouragement and straight elbow grease!  She got so much done!!

Mary came and took all the kids out so that we could move...they were pretty happy about it I think:)

Her dear friend Jen came along to help out...without her I would never have let my pregnant sister take on 6 kids!

Are we actually moving in here?

Trying to figure out how it all will go.
I unfortunately only remembered to take pictures when there was a lull in activity and never captured photos of all of the helping hands who sweated and bled for us as they carried our furniture from the house.  I do remember praying several times as they carried heavy items.  When the carried the piano up the back steps I think I pulled a muscle in my brain just watching.

First saturday morning pancakes on the griddle...we can all eat hot pancakes at the same time!

Final Touches (photos from before the move)

So these are some older pictures of the finishing up of house prep in the final days before moving.  The kids really wanted to paint and got to help with the boys room.  

Henry was so happy to finally have his turn after watching everyone else go before him.  As he toddled over to the wall with the painty roller, he started to paint the white painted window trim and when John tried to help him hold the roller....

he didn't like it.

Sorry Henry.

Meanwhile, our floors are shown here in the midst of being refinished....So gorgeous!!

John spent hours putting my hutch back together and getting it "just right" :)

Thank you Hun.

Trimming paint off the window.

And doing a beautiful job!

Painting detail.

It's coming together:)

Looking into the livingroom.

Featuring John's beautiful lighting.

John and I prepare to spend our first night here together.  So cozy!