Moving Day!

I'm sitting in the backyard on our new patio furniture in our perfectly shaded yard. It's so great to have a yard!! We are slowly getting settled in the house. We still don't have a dining room table (should be coming in any day now) and I think we're going to go buy a new couch today. There are still lots of boxes all over, but I will tackle those during my week off. Here are some pictures of our moving day:
Things were dusty from all the work that they did in the house and Gil mopped every floor of the house. Yesterday he went through and steamed all the floors. Wow, I'm glad he felt motivated to do that!

We had some friends over for 4th of July. We hung out in the yard playing lawn games and then went to the fireworks in Clawson. It was a fun day and we successfully had our first overnight guests (even w/o furniture)!! Here's the new patio furniture:

Our friend Clayton (in the middle of the picture) was over for the Fourth and he realized that two of his good friends had moved into the house directly behind ours about three weeks ago. Small world!

Exhausted!

I'm feeling too exhausted to post all the pictures of the house with our things in it, so that will be coming soon. With moving this weekend and starting summer school on Monday, I'm wiped out! But I wanted to write about a funny situation that happened while we were moving. Gil and I rented a Uhaul and backed it into a parking spot at the apartment so that we could move things all day. Throughout the day we were joking about how funny it'd be if the sprinklers came on while we were moving, obviously not thinking it would happen. But alas, I came down the stairs with a armful of belongings only to find a sprinkler shooting directly into the back of the truck, soaking all of our stuff. Lovely! I quickly diverted the spray and shut the truck. The next part of my genius plan included setting a rock against the sprinkler head to keep it in the new position. Would've worked great if I hadn't knocked the sprinkler head off with a rock. Here's what that looked like:

Ah, the joys of moving!

All Moved In...

Wow! I've never been so exhausted! Yesterday we spent the day packing our apartment up and moving it all to the new house. Let's just say that I feel like I ran a marathon...and then participated in the Ironman Triathalon after that! My arms might never recover. Just kidding...I hope! The biggest challenge yesterday was moving things up and down stairs. I'm pretty sure we'll be getting movers the next time we relocate. Our poor king sized mattress had to be forced up the stairs taco style. And have I mentioned that this house has steep stairs? It was an interesting experience...pictures to follow. Right about now we're feeling pretty proud of ourselves for getting all of our stuff into the house successfully. Gil is snoozing on the couch and it's only 7:00. :) As soon as we get things unpacked and into the right rooms, we'll be ready for visitors. Any takers??