Moving Day!!!

Okay, so moving for most people is an exciting time. A new chapter, new friends, new location with new things to do, a fresh start.  Well for us it's just a pain in the butt, since we've done it so often. Actually, let me back up.

Here's a recap:

2006-Move to Denver live on Emerson street
2006- Move to 38th Street in Denver
2007- Move to Westminster, CO
2009- Move to Nashua, NH
2010- Move to Downers Grove, IL
2012-Move to New York, NY
2013- Move to Stamford, CT
2015- Move to Old Greenwich, CT

As you can see, we've pretty much moved roughly every 20-22 months since we have started dating, so we are tired of moving, or maybe that's just me since Scott seems to be the one schelping us all over the country! When I married him he promised me a lifetime of adventure and by God he's stuck to that! Luckily and hopefully the end is in sight with all this moving around.  Our kids are getting older and it would be nice to settle down so we can all make some long term friendships.

It was a pain to have to go through everything- organize, donate, sell, throw away, making lists, keeping the house organized and safe for the little kids while boxes kept piling up in every room. We tried to keep costs down since we were only moving 10 miles away by packing up everything ourselves,myself.  Normally, it's tough and stressful as is but throw in that a pregnant lady doing the majority of the leg work and it was exhausting.  But knowing the home and neighborhood that we were moving into softened the blow a bit.  We actually found a real neighborhood in the northeast.  It's not an easy thing to do when you consider how populated and crowded real estate is here.
But our new neighborhood is full of kids and young families just like us who like to be outside and who like to throw parties and play together.  The kids regularly hop the fence to play with each other.  We have been here now for 6 weeks and already have developed great and strong relationships with our neighbors.  Within 3 days of moving in I could tell you who lived where in the 9 houses surrounding ours.  It felt sooo good to have a warm welcome.  We live in a neighborhood called Havemeyer Park, which the locals call Have-a-baby Park since there is so many pregnant women and little kids around.  We'll fit right in!

But for now let's focus on moving day.  We actually got our landlord to agree to let us in a few days early to slap some fresh paint on the walls so those extra 4 days were put to good use since we were able to take quick trips back and forth to move all those extra delicate, odd shaped items.  It made moving day that much smoother.


We choose All My Sons moving company. Since we did a lot of work before hand the price wasn't that bad for a local move and within 5 hours we had 5 guys package our furniture, move all our remaining possessions and put everything into our new home.  I spent the majority of the morning taking the kids to school and picking them up and going to the grocery store so I wasn't even around when all the moving took place.  Just how I like it!

Loading dock right in our front yard.

Goodbye old home.

Just so I wouldn't forget who lived where.

2 days later and the kids are already playing with Matthew and Abagail who live behind us.

Scott and the kids breaking in the new back yard with some soccer.

And by day 3 I was starting to accessorize.