We Made It!

It has been a crazy past week, but we survived and are in our new house! We hired movers and I now understand what people meant when they said it would be money well spent. The one guy said when he pulled up to our house that he didn`t think it looked like they would need their biggest truck, but after having a look around inside and then actually packing it all he was thankful they had it. They started loading our stuff a little after 9 am and worked almost straight through until 6 pm. Grandma and Grandpa Reiter had the babies with them from Sunday until Thursday, one day longer than we planned to give us an extra day. As much as we wanted them home the house was no where near ready for them. There is no way we could have done this move with our 3 little curious georges around the house. I definitely underestimated how long it would take us to get somewhat unpacked and settled.

Daniel and I were looking forward to their reaction when they came into the house. We've obviously been other places before and they've been fine, but we were curious what they'd do when they saw all of their things. They climbed up the stairs and explored a bit, found the toy strollers that I got for them at the twin and triplet sale and then cruised around the house. They saw their room and went straight to their beds to see their puppies and bunnies. At bedtime it took Casey a little while to settle down but then it was lights out until after 7 am this morning. They had a good day today and seemed to really enjoy all of their freedom. We are baby gate free in this new house which I am realizing now may not be a good thing, it may be nice to keep them somewhat contained in certain areas but we'll give it a try. We've been a little too busy to take many pictures but here are a few that we have gotten so far.

They've enjoyed a few areas of the house that we thought they would. The stairs of course are a lot of fun to go up and down over and over. They have enjoyed climbing the stairs up to the landing area in front of our master bedroom. They peek down through the spindles, jump and down hanging on to them and sit there with their legs sticking through dangling over the edge.

Maggie had a blast jumping up and down, her hair flipping all over the place.

Their new look out spot where they can watch all of the action outside.


They like going down to the entrance to play with the door, the door stopper and the rug and then they chase each other back up the stairs.


While Daniel was loading up some last minute things from our old house before we gave up possession today I took the babies over and we let them run around in the empty house. We were curious to see what they would do when they noticed all of their things were missing. They walked around with their hands up in the air saying "Go, go", which is their way of asking where something went. Mitchell especially couldn't figure out where things went. It was really cute.


They were watching Daniel take down the Christmas lights from their old favorite look out spot.


Our little helpers were packing stuff up in the van.

Our first and last picture of the 5 of us in front of our now old house.

We still have a lot to do around here and many more boxes to unpack but we`re settled in enough to enjoy our new place. I`ll post picures of our place once I get a chance to take some.