Saturday morning we got up early and optimistically packed up the stuff we had brought over to my parents' house. We filled both cars and still had to leave stuff. Somehow we managed to bring a lot of stuff over and fill all three of their guest rooms. We left the baby to play with Devon who is home for the weekend and headed to the house.
Bob was already there trying to work on the water heater. He had to leave until the afternoon so Mike and I worked on other things. We unpacked the china, glass vases, etc into one of the linen closets. I'm very excited that I was able to fit all of it into one of three linen closets and didn't even fill it! So many cabinets and closets are empty right now. I know we'll fill them but its just amazing right now that we haven't filled it all. We tried to get our room together and realized that again, any one of the three closets was bigger than what we used to share at our old house.
Devon and Dad stopped by and we showed them the progress. I had shown Devon pictures of the house we had from the open house (with wallpaper, etc) so that she could understand the change. She hadn't seen it at all before. After they left Sean came by and helped us move the last of the "big" furniture. We got the desk into the downstairs bedroom, the two dressers up into our room and the TV entertainment center into the family room.
That is where we encountered a problem. When Steve and Tim had run cable, speaker wire, etc., they had left it as a bundle at the top of the wall in the family room until Mike gets the speakers and ports he wants. We had planned on movie the TV into the entertainment center so that when we hear "Ernneee! Ernneee!" we can do something about it. I looked at the bundle of cables and asked, "Where's the coax?" Mike and Sean looked at the bundle, looked at each other and I could see we had a problem. Sean started suggesting some fancy equipment that converts coax to HDMI to ethernet to HDMI to coax, etc. Mike suggested a TV that would take HDMI, which means a new one. Our old tube TV is a hand me down and we knew we would have to get a new one eventually. We had hoped to make do for a little bit longer. For now our plan is to move the big one up into our room where there is a coax hook-up and make do with the TV upstairs until we figure out the one we want downstairs in the family room. Someone told Mike he needs a 65" TV for the family room. Thanks, whoever you are.
So the entertainment center sits empty and we moved on to the next thing. The baby has figured out how to open up the handled door knobs so we bought a safety device that is supposed to limit her. But it also limited us. You're supposed to completely remove the door handle in order to install it. Together, the three of us couldn't figure that out. We'd never seen anything like it. Next step is our dads. If they cant figure it out we may go buy the same model to see how it goes together in order to work it backwards.
The water heater was still not finished by the time we needed to shower in order to go to a HOA BBQ. Mike and I decided to suck it up and take cold ones. He took one first, walked out and said, "Go to your parents house." I had to pick up the baby anyway so didn't argue. The HOA BBQ was okay, there weren't a lot of people by the time we got there and we didn't recognize any of our neighbors. It was mostly a "meet the board" kind of thing. That night though, we had a BBQ with our neighbors and that was fun.
Our immediate neighbors are awesome and fun! We only had one set of good neighbors at our old house (who we miss!) so it was really refreshing to meet everyone. We met some new neighbors we hadn't before and (we think) nailed down the names of everyone. There are quite a few younger kids so Katherine will have kids to play with. The baby across the street is 5 months younger than her but just as tall and heavier. They were taking turns wolfing down watermelon and being adorable. We had a great time hanging out and learning more about everyone. We think we will be very happy there and it seems like everyone else plans to be there for a long time too. We are excited!
But since we didn't have hot water still it was back to mom and dad's for the baby's bath. By the time we got there though she was so exhausted she just wanted to cuddle and sleep. It was the first night in our new house so we headed back home before she completely lost it. She fell asleep easily and stayed asleep all night. We, on the other hand, did not. The windows were open so the door shuttered in the door jam until Mike closed a sock in it. The dog heard noises and barked a bunch. The temporary blinds we got from the window company (temporary blinds = pleated paper & tape) moved in the breeze and the close-pin type clips ("cordless opening & closing!") banged against the window frame. Mike got up a dozen times and even tried taping it to the window frame. Eventually he just closed the window. We may have to invest in some cheapy drapes since our nice shutters won't come in until October. Our 7am alarm (baby) made it a short night. But we are excited to finally be "home."
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