catching up....

Ahh, sweet tv to zone us out from long hard days! Since we've gotten it hooked up we seem to be gravitating to the couch after the kids go to bed:)

So where do I begin? Last week my parents were here for the week and helped oh so much. The first two days there wasn't really much here for them to do, so they took Deagan and Olivia out and about in town. They went to the aquarium, Sandbridge beach, and toured the town. Their favorite part- the hotel swimming pool:) They're easy to please!
After the boxes were dropped off Monday, Tuesday came the disaster. The "unpack" or as I like to call it, the tornado. Mass devastation of boxes literally dumped upside down. It was a joke. These two big guys came and took little box cutters, they'd pick up a box- cut it open and then turn it over to DUMP it out. All over the beds, the counters, tables, floors- EVERYWHERE. It was ridiculous and overwhelming. Lindsey and I just sat there in horror going, "are you serious?" It totally sucked. But it was worth it in the end. We had over 300 boxes and 8,000 pieces of craft paper that things were wrapped in. And those boxes cannot be taken by our city garbage, so it was essential that they were removed by the moving company. It was smothering at first, but we just each started in a room and plowed through it. The first day we only got the kids' rooms and half of the master bedroom done.
Wednesday we checked out of the hotel and my parents came here. We got the house decently completed and set up. Furniture in roughly the right places, kitchen boxes unpacked... then we started the garage. We have a little "cave" in the back of it that gives us lots of storage:) But to get there we had to pull EVERYTHING (including our full trailer) out of the garage. Then we weeded everything back in or to the correct room. It was a process! And at the end of it, well we treated ourselves to MY FIRST ICE CREAM of the summer, yes- in October! Oh and it was amazing! Sadly Lindsey had to go back to NC:( But I couldn't have done it without her! It was essential to have a non-biased third party person there to make split second decisions for me.
Thursday we did a little morning Target and Home Depot (we LIVE at those two stores) shopping, then decided to take the DAY OFF of moving and unpacking. I took my parents down to the outer banks of North Carolina. It was only about and hour away. We went all the way up to the off road section of the beach where there are no roads, just beach and you can drive on it:) The kids had a blast on the beach collecting stones and "fish fossils." Deagan even went swimming in the ocean! He's a crazy little guy. But oh so happy! We stayed there all the way until the sunset- it was nice to get away!
Friday it was back to work on the house. Jeff got home Friday afternoon:) It was so nice to have him home! We went out to dinner for y parent's last night in town.
Saturday morning we took them to the airport so they could fly back to Michigan:(
Later that day, Jeff's parents came into town. They had taken Maverick for the week while we were moving and brought him back down to us. Oh so helpful! Poor Mavvy had no idea what was going on or who he was supposed to love. If we all sat on the couch, he'd look at us like- Ok people, who's lap do I sit on?
Jeff had a kid's Halloween party at his work Saturday. The kids wore their costumes (Deagan is Batman and Olivia is a bride). They had a bounce house, games, free food, a hayride and more importantly a kids haunted house. Their first ever haunted house. And we made it through just fine. The guys did a great job making it at the command. It was dark, really dark and you followed a path of glowsticks around. They got Jeff's mom pretty good one time! Tessa was sleeping on me in the Moby wrap, and just at the end someone jumped out and Rooared and she screamed. That made Olivia scream and shed maybe one tear then we were out and she was excited that she had survived. Deagan LOVED it and kept asking to go again. He's crazy!
Sunday Deagan and I started feeling pretty crappy. All of the sudden I couldn't hear out of my left ear and we both got super sore throats.
Jeff gave Tessa her first rice cereal:) She LOVED it and scarfed it down. She was yelling at him to keep it coming as quickly as he could!
Monday was Olivia's first day of school. I'll do another post about that after this one.
Monday Deagan and I went to the Urgent Care for our ailments. Well... Deagan has the flu and I have a raging ear infection and an upper respiratory infection! Which flu does he have you ask? We don't know. Our insurance doesn't pay to send the culture to the lab for 48 hour growth just to tell you which strain it is- when they are both treated the same way. Seasonal or H1N1, who knows!
Tuesday I then took Tessa to her new pediatrician and sure enough she has an ear infection too. On her five month birthday! So she's on antibiotics too.
We are a super sick house! Ron and Paulla decided to leave early on Tuesday to head back to Michigan. Ron wasn't feeling well either. No, we didn't get him sick, he came here sick silly!


Our poor parents all got put to work while they were here, but man it sure helped out to have all of the extra hands. Whether it was to feed mouths, hold babies, play with Deagan, swap appliances, hang blinds, mount TV on the wall, install laundry room shelves.... I could go on and on. We got SOOOO much work done with ALL of their help! Couldn't have done it without them!!!!!

Whew! What a busy week, and a long novel!