So, just a not-so-little review of 2010 for my posterity (and for me so I will not forget the crazy chaos we experienced)!
The first of 2010 found DJ (Grampy) and I still living in Spring, Texas and being surrogate parents to three of our grandchildren, our cute Carmen, AJ, and Cade. Matt and Falicia were living in Dallas, and Falicia was having some health problems so we took guardianship of the kids in November of 2009 (we had to do that so they could go to school in Spring). DJ was working at Huntsman Corporation (he was a few months into his 31st year with them). I was also teaching early-morning seminary for our church. I had taught for five years prior to this, getting up around 5 a.m. or earlier, five days a week, and co-teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to anywhere from 12-30 students depending on the year. It was THE favorite calling that I'd ever had---I learned so much more than the students. I was so glad they didn't make me quit teaching because I had little kids at home. DJ was sweet to miss his morning workouts for awhile to stay with the kids while I was at seminary. To say we were busy is an understatement. In addition to our daily routine, we were trying to keep track of our seven children, their six spouses, and the seven other grandchildren who weren't living with us as well as my mother (Grandma Nan).
Some JANUARY highlights:
January 3 - Our ward at church (the Parkway Ward) along with the Klein and Champion Wards had the boundaries realigned to create a fourth and new ward---Memorial Springs. We became members of the Memorial Springs Ward and began attending church in the newly completed building on Champions Forest and Crescent Clover (just minutes from our house) the following week.
January 10 - Matt and Falicia had visited for the weekend and took Cade back to Dallas for the week to visit.
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| Grammy sure missed playing legos, reading stories, building block towers, watching Sesame Street videos, playing trains, and putting puzzles together with Cade while he was gone. |
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| January 12 - We had a surprise visit from Elder John Steagall and his companion. John used to live in our house when he was 12. His family sold the house to us and moved to Utah. Later, he was called to serve his church mission in Houston so he thought he'd come see his old stompin' grounds. While they were visiting, AJ slipped upstairs and put his dress shirt on and one of Uncle Mike's missionary tags which had been on a bulletin board in Mike's room. The tag simply said "Elder Morgan" so it worked just right for AJ. I just had to get a picture. |
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| Throughout January, I enjoyed several visits with our newest granddaughter, Katelyn. I got to babysit her several times when Sarah attended a baby shower for her friend and former co-worker, Whitney Turner and when she spearheaded a service project for her ward on MLK day. Katelyn also came to visit when I helped Sarah with her semester grades because she was in charge of posting them for her 4th grade class at Frank Elementary even though she had taken leave. |
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| The second week of January, Carmen and AJ's school had a pajama day so they wore the pajamas they had gotten for the ward Christmas party in December. |
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| January 14 - Career Day at school. A teacher and a professional football player left our house! |
January 22 - Matt lost his job. He came down, and Falicia went back with him to start packing up their things and take care of details there. They had decided to move in with us and look for work in Houston. We started moving bedrooms around once again.
January 23 - Put DJ on a plane for a business trip to Switzerland.
January 29 - Falicia went to Wisconsin to get medical help.
January 30 - DJ got back from Switzerland.
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| January 31 - The Arciniegas had Matt's family and DJ and I up for dinner and games after church. |
Some FEBRUARY highlights:
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| February 1 - Carmen was Pony of the Week in her classroom during the first week of February. |
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| February 7 - We all went to church in The Woodlands to see baby Katelyn get blessed. |
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| Sixteen of us here for dinner that night. The kids ate here in the kitchen. |
February 8 - AJ was Star of the Week in his classroom:
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| Never did get a picture of AJ with his poster, but something's better than nothing. |
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| February 10 - Carmen and AJ dressed up for 50's day! |
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| February 11 - Our 11th grandchild, Isaac Russell Dailey, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was as cute as he was wanted---a lot (can't you be a lot cute?). First boy after four girls!! |
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| February 13 - We celebrated Carmen's birthday a week early so I could go back to Tennessee to help Rachel with her new baby. We had thirteen girls (including Carmen) who made all sorts of Valentine crafts. We had a pizza lunch and cake and ice cream to finish it off! |
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| DJ has the magic touch! |
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| Two in their terrible two's---not these two! |
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| Cade enjoyed playing dress-ups with his cousins---don't know about the Wonder Woman thing, but he had fun anyway! |
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| Our cute Conner |
Late February - Mike moved home from College Station to save money before going into the Air Force (he had quit his job thinking he would leave sooner than he did)---we had gone from empty nesting to a total of eight people at our house!
February 27 - DJ had flown back to Knoxville on Friday the 26th. We got home after driving all the way from Knoxville on Saturday. We brought the four Dailey girls home for the week. Cade was excited to have the company while Carmen and AJ were at school.
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| February 28 - We celebrated Mike's birthday as a family. |
Some MARCH highlights:
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| March 2- Sarah and I took six kids (Katelyn was eating and not in this picture) to the Houston Children's Museum (Carmen and AJ were at school). Great fun. |
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| March 3 - Spent the first part of the day doing baths, hair, and toenails, and spent the second half of the day at the photographers getting pictures of the granddaughters. |
March 4 - Sarah and I took baby Kate, Rachel's four girls and Cade to the Houston Rodeo:
March 5-7 - Drove to Knoxville and back. Matt took care of his kids so we only had the four Dailey girls. We had to rent a mini-van because the Suburban was on the fritz, and neither the Camry nor the Acura was big enough for six of us. We left Friday afternoon and drove part way. We got to Knoxville just in time to unload the van, have dinner on Saturday evening, give everybody a hug and leave (all within two hours). We drove part way back that night and then finished the drive on Sunday. It was probably the nuttiest trip we've ever done---1,888 miles in about 52-53 hours (31-32 hours of driving)! We were so glad that the girls had been able to spend the week with us, however.
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| March 10 - AJ's first Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet. He had to decorate a cake for the cake auction. The theme for the night was "Take Flight". |
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| March 11 - AJ performed with the rest of the 2nd grade in BugZ. He was an Army Ant. |
March 15-20 - DJ and I took Carmen and AJ to Orlando. DJ had SAP meetings most of the time during the day, but he joined the kids and I on Friday on Hollywood Studios.
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| March 16 - First day at Disneyworld was spent at Animal Kingdom. We drove from Houston to Orlando on Monday, the 15th. |
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| March 17 - Epcot was on the agenda for day two of our Disney World adventure. |
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| March 18 - We spent the day at The Magic Kingdom. |
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| March 19 - We spent our last day at Hollywood Studios. Grampy got out of his meetings early and met us there. |
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| March 20 - We left this really awesome hotel and drove all the way home to Houston. |
Late March/Early April - Falicia moved back down from Wisconsin.
STARTED WORKING ON THE MOVE AND CLEANING OUT THE MASTER CLOSET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This move was going to be extra difficult because we weren't just packing up ALL our things and moving them ONE place at ONE time. We had to consider:
- What things of ours needed to be shipped by air so that DJ could have the essentials to get by for 4-8 weeks before the other things came? (BUT this shipment could not weigh over 500 pounds including the pallet it would be wrapped on.)
- What other things of ours needed to go on the ship, what things did we really have to have in Switzerland, and how much would fit in a 2-3 bedroom apartment AND would it fit in a 20 ft. shipping container?
- What things of ours would go to long-term storage; what could we do without for 3-5 years?
- What could we donate and give away; what could we do without forever?
- What things of ours would stay at the house---both furniture and smaller items? Sarah and Israel would have to come to the house and decide what would stay and what would go in every room, every closet,, and every cupboard.
- How could we keep Matt's family's belongings in order and not mixed in with all of the above so they would be ready to move as well?
- What things would Mike need left at the house for use as soon as basic was over, what he would need once he had an assignment, and what could be put in long-term storage?
Some APRIL highlights:
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| April 4 - After listening to General Conference, we gathered with extended family for dinner on Easter Sunday at my niece's home. The kids looked for filled plastic eggs in the backyard. |
CONTINUED TO CLEAN, SORT, AND PURGE FOR THE MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my projects in the master closet was to pack up shelves and shelves of Primary sharing time material, clipart books, YW idea books, travel books, craft books, Relief Society idea books, flannelboard patterns, yearbooks, Cub Scout ideas, church manuals, once I'd gotten rid of what I didn't want. Not only did I pack them up, put I inventoried them on an Excel spreadsheet (with Sarah's help and design) and put a list on the front of each file box in a plastic sleeve. Reason for doing this? I had invested lots of money in them, there was lots of good info available, and I have lots of girls who could benefit by using most of it, if I don't. I just wasn't ready to part with all of it yet---I promise I did get rid of some of it. On the flip side, I don't think those things are going back on my master closet shelves when this job assignment is over, so I wanted things well labeled and organized in the file boxes for easy access. I made sure the movers left things just like they we packed them. I didn't want things dumped into different boxes and all mixed up (have had that one happen before).
We inventoried (which was the time consumer) and packed up fourteen boxes like this (didn't get pictures of the awesome lists though):
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| April 7-12 - We left for Idaho after seminary on the 7th and drove again most of the day on the 8th. Before we left we got the Camry ready to sell to to Abby and Steven and packed Dave's bike and as many other things as we possibly could pack in the Camry to leave in Idaho with the kids. We stopped in Ogden for a visit with DJ's sister and her family and then headed north on the 9th. We played with the Perrys, Morgans, and Butterfields for two days including some golf, pizza, shopping, and Ticket to Ride. Sunday, the 11th, we attended the blessing of our cute Conner David Morgan, and later that day we took a shuttle to SLC. We flew back to Houston on the 12th. |
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| April 16 - Sent in the paperwork to get my passport renewed! Drove to Brenham with the Arciniegas to see the bluebonnets. In the almost 15 years we had been in Houston, I had never been up there to see them. Had a picnic lunch, took over 100 pictures, climbed trees, and played on the swings. Wonderful day |
KEPT WORKING ON THE MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 23 - Helped Sarah clean and played with baby Kate while Sarah got ready for a Progressive Dinner Party. She was still pretty sore from her surgery.
WAS STILL DIGGING OUT OF THE MASTER CLOSET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think people used to wonder what was taking me so long to clean out my closet. First, I didn't get to spend entire days just working on it. Secondly, there was a lot of stuff stored in there, and though some was fairly organized, most of it had just gotten out of hand---especially the paper. Third, I was being very picky and thorough as I sifted through it all. It got to be a joke amongst friends!
We had three filing cabinets in that closet. I left a two-drawer at the house so that I could work further on organizing things, but I pretty much went through the other six drawers, purged, shredded, organized, and labeled if it wasn't done already. I even went through all my flannel board stories and made sure all the pieces were there or they got pulled. I put anything we needed to take to Switzerland aside and got the rest ready to go to storage.
April 25 - Our 36th wedding anniversary---put DJ on the plane to go to Basel, Switzerland again.
Some MAY highlights:
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| May 3 - Spent Family Home Evening at Spring Creek Park with both Matt's and Sarah's families. AJ had to pass off some cooking requirements for Cubs Scouts so he helped prepared dinner. |
May 4 - DJ home from Switzerland.
May 5- I hit the bottom of the master closet - pretty much done; with the exception of four things, the rest of it was going to Switzerland! I should have had a party!!! Except...you should have seen the piles on my bedroom floor!
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| May 12-ish - This was pretty much a family project. Falicia and AJ did most of it, but I went shopping for the bag, found a map for them to trace, found some paper and stickers to decorate with, and found items for the inside of it from Illinois so AJ could use them when he gave his report. |
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| May 12 - My Facebook post for this day said: "Three crazy days---watched Cade skinny dip, started cleaning the garage...worked on flight for mom to visit, baked muffins at 3:45 a.m., picked up Sarah/Kate at the airport, gathered costumes for pack meeting skits, helped with AJ's Illinois bag, built block highways and bridges with Cade, studied science with Carmen, and booked a party at the roller rink. This is an idea of how every few days was as diverse as can be---all this in addition to trying to maintain our household and teach seminary---oh, and get ready to move. |
We purchased a paper shredder, and I was afraid I would burn up the motor before I finished shredding hundreds of old financial papers---see I really was purging. I loved having the thing! Carmen, Matt's oldest, loved to help me shred. She was a big help. Speaking of help, Matt was so good to help when he wasn't looking for a job or working out. He did the majority of work on re-finishing the front door as well as the kitchen table. He and Mike took out a tree in our yard that was damaged. His whole family took on weeding duty one weekend. Mike took over the duties for the lawn as DJ was out of town as much or more than he was there. Sarah was good to come down 2-3 times a week when she was feeling a little better and then 4-5 towards the end of the move. She was great help going through things, inputting information on the computer, developing our inventory, scanning pictures, scanning movie "jackets" so all of our DVD's (over 150 of them) could be labeled in new zippered holders (took up lots less space), and putting 2,179 songs off our CD's onto our new Ipod---all this between Katelyn's feedings and diaper changes.
Filling up the trunk of the car with things to go to Goodwill became an obsession. In the middle of all this (I don't remember the date), one of my Rosenberg Ward friends was in charge of a garage sale for a Girls' Camp fundraiser. I couldn't get stuff out of the house fast enough---a couch, the boys weight set, our Healthrider, some golf glubs, and a bunch of smaller things; they brought a utility van to the house twice and filled it up. I was glad to help them, but I really think it helped me because I had a deadline, and they helped load it up and drove off with it!
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| May 22 - Because of our trip to Disney World and our crazy April, we celebrated AJ's birthday late with a party at the roller rink. Several of his closet friends got to come. They ate pizza and had a really good time. Thanks heavens, Matt and Falicia were both in town and could take over as I had to run to choir rehearsal. |
May 22-23 - Sang for the last time with the Klein Stake Choir for both Saturday and Sunday sessions of stake conference (hopefully, I will get to again when we move back). Put DJ on the plane for Switzerland AGAIN on the 23rd.
May 24 - Helped Sarah pack up her in-class libarary and a few leftovers from her classroom that we didn't move in December. Went to training for Cub Scout Day Camp.
May 27 - Helped DJ put together his FIRST official resume' via the telephone and computer in the early morning hours (like sometime between midnight and 5). Because he had worked in the family business right after college and then was hired by Huntsman because one of his accounting responsibilities was a jointly held business between my dad and the Huntsmans, and they liked his work, he never had to put together a resume'! Swiss law required that he had one as an ex-pat.
That night I attended a baby shower for Marissa Scharman and a Court of Honor for Rory Jones and Josh Norton. Busy times!
May 28 - I FOUND THE CARPET ON MY BEDROOM FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally got rid of all the piles on my floor which were left over from all the sorting in the master closet! :)
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| May 28 - This was my last day as a seminary teacher. Good, because I was tired; sad, because it was an incredible experience. These three are part of the thirty seminary students I taught during the 2009-2010 school year. In 5 1/2 years I had taught 121 of the most awesome people I know! |
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| May 29 - Dinner at Pappasito's with sister, Livi; nieces, Bri, Ashley, and Hailey; niece-in-law, Looli, and daughter, Sarah. Ashley and Hailey were here for a visit before Hailey left on her missoin for Latvia. |
May 30 - We had dinner at our house for extended family with Ashley and Hailey. I ran to seminary graduation after the food was ready to go on the table and then made it home for visiting afterwards.
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| Our almost missionary, Hailey, meets Katelyn. |
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Hailey and Ash relaxing in the family room. |
May 31 - I flew to Basel and met DJ who had working there for a week.
Some JUNE highlights:
June 2-3 - DJ and I met with our relocation agent, Barbara Zipfel, who showed us some apartments and toured Basel with us. She was wonderful. We found our apartment on the 3rd.
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| What was to become our kitchen. |
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| June 4 - After DJ did some things at the office, we took off for Interlaken. |
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| June 5 - We flew to Amsterdam and toured the city by bus... |
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| ...and by boat on the canals. We flew home on June 6. |
INTENSIFED MY EFFORTS TO GET READY FOR THE MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 7 - Sarah continued on Ipod project, Matt stained the front door after having sanded it, we made a master list of what's happening with the furniture, I took furniture to be repaired, bought fabric to recover the kitchen chairs (still haven't done that)...........the to do's never stopped.
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| June 9 - Took Carmen and AJ to their first piano lesson with Laurie McIntosh |
The Saturday before DJ left, we went through the attic and got rid of everything but about six things so Sarah and Israel would have plenty of room if they needed it. We also went through the garage rafters and emptied most of them---one side completely. That was a good thing because later in the summer Matt had to keep bringing load after load of things there to store as they were moving a four-bedroom house worth of stuff into a two-bedroom apartment!
By early June I had enough boxes and tubs full of things that Sarah and I had gone through and inventoried that I rented a storage unit just so that I could move it over there, eliminate clutter, avoid space issues with so many of us living at the house, and have a sense that I was making progress. If it was cleaned, organized, filed, inventoried, and packed---it went to the storage unit. Besides that, if it was at the storage unit, people couldn't get into it---right? It helped me mentally. I loved walking into my now very spacious master closet---no longer stuffed full of things. It made for lots of room in the garage and the upstairs closets so that we could sort and separate Mike's stuff, Matt's stuff, and so that Sarah could start bringing some of their things down each time she made a trip. That strategy paid off because they had very little but furniture left at their house by the time the actual move date came.
June 13 - DJ off to Switzerland again.
June 15-16 - I spent the first two days of Cub Scout Day Camp with AJ and the other Cubs from our pack.
GARAGE, PACKING, GOODWILL, GARBAGE, 104 THINGS (MOSTLY TUBS AND BOXES) INVENTORIED AND AT THE STORAGE UNIT WAITING TO BE PUT IN LONG TERM STORAGE LATER BY THE MOVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Two shots of random garbage/recycling days during the moving process. We really tried to clean out! Note: Being the recycling fan that I am, the pile from the stacked cardboard boxes back is all recycling---even the helium cannister! |
Like I have blogged or facebooked before, I should have invested in Rubbermaid stock years ago. I would have helped the stock escalate single-handedly. I loved the stuff. Most everything that we stored was in Rubbermaid---the kids keepsakes, toys, and collections; holiday decorations including over 20 full of Christmas things; craft supplies, teaching supplies, visual aids, camping gear. So...I painstakingly went through dozens of our tubs, evaluating if we really wanted things, packing things a little tighter, adding things here, taking things out there, increasing padding and protection, and finishing up the inventory process.
Most of the kids had taken their things to their homes, but Abby, Liz, and Mike still had things at our house---lots of stuff at our house. It was kind of like a walk back in time as I went through those tubs. For example:
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| Abby's favorite reading material |
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| Amazing Abby's favorite dolls---Amazing Ally and Amazing Amy |
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| Dozens of Liz's collector barbies! She did a paper route when she was in 3rd grade to buy a lot of them! |
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| And then there was the Beany Baby bug---both the girls have a tub of those cute little critters! |
Anyway, you get the drift! There was just lots of stuff to go through, but plow through we did.
June 18 - Moving survey today with moving company rep, and missionaries came to dinner.
June 19 - Cleaned at the church building in the morning and cleaned at home all day. Picked DJ up from airport.
June 20 - Celebrated Father's Day at our house with 24 extended family members; doubled as a good-bye dinner for Mike.
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| DJ and Katelyn on Father's Day |
June 21 - Mike left for basic training at Lakcland Air Force Base on the morning of the 21st.
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| June 21 - Carmen and AJ started taking swim lessons from Linda Stolle for two weeks. They loved them and HER! |
ORGANIZED PICTURES, INVENTORIED, AND TOOK MORE STUFF TO STORAGE, WENT THROUGH HUTCH AND BUFFET IN DINING ROOM, STILL FELT LIKE THERE WAS NO END IN SIGHT. VISAS AND WORK PERMITS IN PROGRESS. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Everything on every shelf and in every drawer in the hutch and buffet was gone through, inventoried, and items tagged for which shipment, for storage, or to be left for Sarah and Israel to use. Oh, and pictures taken for insurance purposes, too. |
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| Okay, so I'm OCD and I even went so far as to measure the tablecloths so Sarah would know which ones fit which tables. Now you know why everything took so long........ |
June 26 - Temple session, furniture shopping, and babysitting Kate.
June 27 - Subbed as the pianist in Primary.
June 29 - Taught institute class for the seniors who had just graduated. Loved seeing a bunch of "my" kids.
MORE PICTURE ORGANIZING AND CLEANING OUT KITCHEN CUPBOARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| See those eight suitcase-looking containers tucked against the wall? They are full of 96 individual picture containers. Those containers are full of 8 years worth of pictures organized by date and event. Sarah helped me organize all our pictures from our time in Spring in these neat organizers. Awesome, but it took lots of our time as well! |
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| As I cleaned out the kitchen cupboads, I took inventory and took pictures. One night Sarah and Israel came down and we went through every cupboard in the kitchen so they could decide what they wanted me to leave there and what they didn't. They designed a spreadsheet so that we could keep track of what stayed and which of the three shipments the rest of it went on. I never did get the pantry totally cleaned out and organized like I wanted---towards the end, it was just a hurried effort to make sure everything got packed and gone where it needed to go! |
Some JULY highlights:
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| The big boys playing with the big guns! |
July 5th - DJ off to Switzerland with suitcases "stuffed to the gills"!
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| July 6 - Air shipment packed---500 pounds in 17 cartons, luckily it was pretty much everything DJ had to have to survive until the boat shipment arrived. One down, two to go! |
MORE KITCHEN CUPBOARDS, MIKE'S ROOM AND CLOSET, GAMEROOM CLOSET!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| These are the leftover games that were going to go to storage. Sarah and Israel kept a few others to add to their already growing game collection. We put a few aside to go to Switzerland, but the rest of them ended up here ready for the movers to pack for storage (and yes, I did get rid of some). |
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| July 21 - We stopped in the midst of the work to celebrate Matt's birthday (see how hot and sweaty he looks). We ate on a card table in the kitchen because he was working on refinishing the breakfast room table so it would be ready for the boat shipment. |
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| July 24 - We took a break and saw Wicked with Sarah and Israel. |
July 26 - Moving company at the house; 50 boxes packed for the shipping container (boat)---done by early afternoon. DJ and gang back by late afternoon with a loaded truck. We shopped for extra things for our shipment---like paper towels, toilet paper, etc. because it looked like we would have plenty of room in the shipping container.
July 27 - Finished our shipment with the moving company, and they had the truck loaded by 1:00 in the afternoon (no pictures again). DJ and kids unloaded half their truck in the afternoon after things were set up with the apartment complex. I was up until 1:30 a.m. working on things for the storage shipment.
July 28 - Matt and Fish finished unloading their truck. I had another late night working on things for storage shipment.
July 29 - Movers back to start packing long-term storage load. We took a break that night and went to D'Ann's 50th birthday party. It was a surprise!
July 30 - Movers back for second day of packing for long-term storage:
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| Regina and Kate got to be pretty good friends. Regina was at the house for both the sea shipment and the long-term storage shipment. |
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| Piles of books like this lined two of our bedroom walls---it was more work for me, but the movers didn't have to wander from bookcase to bookcase trying to figure out what was going to storage and what was staying, etc. |
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| Regina, hard at work! |
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| This is what our master bedroom looked like by Friday night! Once the air and sea shipments were gone and the rest of our stuff taken upstairs to our "designated bedroom", the master bedroom had been totally emptied except for the treadmill. The room made a great work space for the storage shipment; besides the A/C is the best in there. I had brought every book and movie we weren't leaving at the house or taking with us to Switzerland downstairs to our room as well as some other odds and ends (baskets, office supplies, cookbooks, etc.), so the movers could pack them there and then stack the boxes in the center of the room (out of the way). I had emptied some rooms of all the things that needed to be packed and then centralized things into 4-5 areas. The movers loved it; they got done faster. I loved it---they weren't let loose in every room in the house! Matt's family's stuff, Sarah and Iz's stuff, and Mike's stuff could be organized, stored, and undistrubed until we got it moved in or out---and not accidentally shipped to long-term storage! |
July 31 - Cleaned at church, went out to breakfast, started working on patio furniture, DJ took a "burb" load of Matt's stuff out of the house to his apartment and brought back a different load that wouldn't fit in their apartment for our garage! After that, he and Matt finished unloading the few things that were left in the storage unit so that things would be ready for Monday. I went to Emily Bull's bridal shower, worked on the kitchen, took Carmen and AJ to the movies (Ramona and Beezus), Sarah and Israel brought two car loads of kitchen stuff down from their house to unpack into our kitchen, and I worked on the patio set until dark. (Just had to put all this in here because most days were just about this crazy!)
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| July 31 and August 2 - I was working on these on Saturday until it got too dark to see and on Monday morning as soon as it was light so they would be dry when they put them on the truck later that afternoon. Six chairs and a table in need of some TLC all started out looking like the one on the right and ended up a little better off like the one on the left. This was just a primer coat. They'll need more work when we get back to the states. |
To be continued..............
I get points for reading all this, right? haha I only made it to April before I started skimming.
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