Settling In

What an amazingly busy week! Moving is such a big job and it really wasn't a whole lot of fun, especially doing most of the packing without Matt around. I must admit, though, that this move went so smoothly. We had so many good friends and neighbors come to help load our moving truck last week. We had our whole house and garage empty in about 45min. It took a little longer to pack the truck, and there was a few moments that I was worried we wouldn't fit everything in, but it was amazing how my mom and Matt juggled, and fit everything into the truck. I am so very grateful for my mom and dad. They drove Matt up to Edmonton, helped load the truck, and stayed to help unload the truck in Lethbridge as well. We had a bit of a caravan going down south. Matt took Grace and Brendan in the big moving truck, Mom and Dad took Anna and Rebecca with them, and that left me with Sarah and Gideon in our van. We had some awesome friends that took all our kids (except Brendan - he was a big help with the move) for the entire morning so they were out of the way, and then made lunch for us for the drive down as well. It was so hard to say goodbye to our neighbors and our close friends and family in Edmonton. We are really going to miss everybody! We had some people from our new ward that came to help unload the truck and we had the entire truck unloaded in about 45 min. It is so much more fun unpacking than packing that is for sure. Since we were moving to a house that was about 600 sq feet larger than our last one, we have more than enough space for everything too! Here are a few pictures of our new home! I still haven't put up too many pictures, and I have no furniture in the front room or our family room, but we are doing pretty good for only moving in 5 days ago!

Everything is covered with snow now, and we are soooo grateful that we were able to move in before the bad weather hit!

My kitchen - they painted the cabinets black, which is not really my style. I am really excited that my mom and dad are so handy though and we are going to renovate our kitchen next summer!


Brand new dishwasher - - I love it!!


I think this might be my most favorite room in the house. We were so cramped into our tiny little eating area in our other place, that we are really enjoying all the elbow room here! The kids are totally enthralled with the fireplace. I had to laugh at the comment: "Now Santa can come down our real chimney instead of knocking on the door!"

Anna and Rebecca's room

Sarah and Grace's room. We just got them a set of bunk beds and that will free up some space in here soon.

Master bedroom - I love the flooring in all the bedrooms. It is really beautiful!

Ensuite!!! Need I say more!!!


Main bathroom - - I hope to get a new shower curtain soon. I have had this one for over 10 years and it is definitely time to change things up!!

Brendan and Gideon's room

This is the closet in Brendan's room. He LOVES this space and thinks this is the best room he has ever had!

Downstairs bathroom

Family room downstairs

"Toy Area" downstairs. I love all the space the kids have to play!

Laundry

Food storage

General Storage area. There are still a few boxes to go through, but these are generally just storage stuff anyway.

I am so happy and relieved at how smoothly this move has gone. It was a lot of work, but we are really happy with our new home and feel that this is going to be a positive change for our family.