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Friends! Thank you so much for all your kind messages over the last few days. I told someone yesterday that I was pretty sure I would look back on all this and wonder how in the world we did it. That day has arrived. 

HOW DID WE DO IT??? 

God's grace. 

We left WillowBridge a little before noon yesterday, after putting the last of the last of the last of the last in the trailer. Ryan had Braeya with him and I had Lexi with me. Both of them protested for most of the drive, but I am thrilled to report that once we arrived, they were complete CHAMPS. 

We brought Braeya in first, and for the first time ever in a move, she wanted to explore the entire house, and she did! We put the baby gate up at our bedroom door so she could have some privacy from Lexi if she wanted, but she chose to come out and socialize for a big chunk of the day. Lexi, who has no issues with exploration whatsoever, also ran all over the house, checking out every nook and cranny. Both of them were super thrilled about the windows and had a great time looking all around inside and out!

Ryan spent the bulk of the afternoon hooking up the washer and dryer so we could wash our bedding. (We set up our bed at our new house last week on one of our days off, but we couldn't finish making it since we needed to wash all the bedding.) We have missed our bed for this last week; we've been sleeping on the guest bed mattress on our floor.

While Ryan did that, I started unpacking the kitchen supplies. I am not sure I have everything in the best possible place, but I do have most of it IN a place, so I'm excited for that. I still haven't unearthed the silverware, but other than that, I think I have most of the things we need for now. 

The last thing we did last night was start setting up the living room. Ryan and Tim brought the couch over this past weekend, but it wasn't all hooked together, so we did that. We put the rug down and I decided I wanted to switch the lamps we've always had in our bedroom and put them in the living room instead. It's my first big switch of room items, and I really like it. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it before, actually. 

Our coffee table and entertainment center were pretty much made to match the plank floors in here, so I'm really excited about that! 

We don't have internet yet, so we can't watch anything on TV, and I'm trying to quickly write blogs using limited hotspot time. (Might have to hit up the coffee shop for blog writing until we have internet.)

We know that as the next few days arrive, it will start to hit us in new ways that this really is happening, but for now, we are enjoying home. 

Oh! And some of you asked where we landed. We relocated about 40 minutes south of where we were and are now in the town of Bluffton!