We're In!

Okay, so I'm a slug for not posting sooner. But things have been crazy! We are in our new house, which is fantastic! We've been crazy busy unpacking and painting and stuff like that. For any of you that have seen the "green room" and the "blue room".... well, they're still green and blue, but they're not ugly anymore. That's happy!
I should back track... Tuesday was the big day - our closing was at 9 in the morning, so we were going nuts getting everything into the uhaul and out of our apartment on Monday. Now that we're in this huge house, I can't figure out for the life of me how we were able to function in that apartment! It's nuts! Our stuff is so spread out now that it's hard to imagine how we fitted it all into the apartment. So on Tuesday, my dad, my sister and my grandmother showed up at the apartment so my dad could drive the u-haul, and my sister was driving the truck with the washer and dryer we were getting from my parents in it. I had my car and John had his. Armed with a cat each and trunk fulls of stuff, we headed for Rochester. We dropped the cats off at the house, went to the closing, then came back to find my family and Chris H. unloading the u-haul. Kim was keeping an eye on the cats to they didn't get out, which was a huge help. The move was ridiculously stressful for them (but they've recovered nicely now). Johns parents came over about 1/2 an hour after that, and my cousin Bonnie, who now lives 17 miles away (very exciting!!!), came down. Between everyone, we unloaded the u-haul pretty quickly. John and I spent the rest of the day moving boxes around, putting away stuff in the kitchen and the bedroom. The remainder of the week has just been getting stuff unpacked, but the only room that's really left to be done now is the den. Yesterday, Kim and Isaac came over to help us paint the green room and the blue room. That was great! Kim and I pounded out the green room in about 20 minutes, because John and I had done all of the trim work that morning. Then Isaac had to leave because of his allergies (sorry dude!) and John, Kim and I managed to get the blue room done too. I was SO excited about that! Now I don't have to work on those next week, so if the weather is nice, I may do some gardening. Now, I'm not much of a gardener, but our yard needs some landscape work. So I may just go down to Home Depot and make friends will all of the people in the garden center.
ANYWAY.... That's the week in a nutshell. It's been so great being in our own house. It's a slow realization that if we don't like something in the house, we can change it and we don't have to ask someone about it! So painting those two rooms was extremely liberating. Plus, I love to paint, so it was all good. And Kim, you are my new favorite panting buddy, so when it's time for John and I to tackle our bedroom or the den, guess who is going to be called first?? =) Thanks for all of your help yesterday, it was very much appreciated! You were a HUGE help!
Well, I'm off to go hang curtains in the blue room. Hopefully today I'll be able to get John to work on the den a bit, but I make no promises there.
Peace, love and granola to you all!