Glimpses of Packing

 GUESS WHO HAS INTERNET AGAIN!!?!?!!?!?!!?!

Two WONDERFUL men showed up at our house yesterday morning and had us connected in very short order. I was so happy, I could have cried! So after transferring over FIVE HUNDRED PICTURES from my phone, I am going to back up and show you bits and pieces of things you've missed!

First up, I wanted to share a few pictures from our moving adventures. I think I said this, but in case I didn't, this time we didn't do one big moving day. In fact, we moved almost everything on our own, just the two of us, over a series of days as we had time. Ryan's dad loaned us his truck, and Ryan's sister loaned us her enclosed trailer, and both of those were SUCH blessings. Oh my goodness. I seriously can't even explain. If we'd had to rent vehicles each time, it would have been so costly. 

SO!!! Here are some glimpses of moving...

Here is a picture I couldn't share in real time, because I hadn't even told you there WOULD be a move! This was the very first night we started packing boxes. At this time, Rob, Sean, Sarah, and our other two immediate coworkers knew we were moving, but we hadn't told the tenants or Gateway as a whole. I had to try to pack very quietly so the tenants wouldn't hear the tape roll ripping. (We also had to try to sneak boxes into the building when we thought they would all be at work.)

Lexi never did become friends with the sound of the tape roll ripping. She would bark her head off at it every single time. (This also made packing interesting, since we didn't want her barking to disrupt the building!)

This one was backed to the brim with 12x12 scrapbooks. Ryan had to use a furniture mover to get it on and off the truck. ;) Also - three cheers for Tim and Justine, whose child had recently had a birthday and that resulted in some good-sized boxes donated to our move! 

The room that takes forever: the office. :) But for the most part, it was one of the rooms we could start packing early, because we definitely weren't going to have time to read during this adventure!

We just packed whenever we could. Usually it required all of our weekend days, plus whatever snippets of time we could find in between working adventures. The closer we got to the end of our time, the more time we had to pack, because we were slowly removed from WillowBridge responsibilities and mostly just had to be available if needed. We didn't have to attend as many meetings or planning sessions. 

I did most of the actual packing into boxes, but Ryan did help with some of it! And yes, those are VHS tapes. What. Do you not have those? ;)

Since we didn't have a garage or storage space, all the boxes just lived in random corners of the apartment. It was an adventure!

And sometimes it was just straight up MESSY. An utter delight for two Type A individuals. ;) 

Braeya was a fabulous supervisor. And the tape didn't bother her nearly as much as it did Lexi, so she stuck around for a lot more packing.

Then the day came at last when we could start packing things INTO THE TRAILER for the first trip over to the new house! We did have a few seasonal things in the WillowBridge shed, so we started with that and then hauled out boxes from the apartment stash. That sidewalk a few photos down is a lot longer than it looks when you're Bekah hefting furniture! :) Unfortunately, we have no pictures of the two of us hefting furniture, because we were out of hands with which to take pictures!

Ryan is truly a master at efficient packing. He enjoys it and is REALLY good at it. We were able to get everything moved in just four trailer trips because he was SO good at efficient arrangement. 

And after we had everything moved out - I went right back to packing up more things! 

So there you have it! Caught up on glimpses of packing to move!