MOVING DAY!

It has been a long and hectic week but we just finished moving all of our stuff from our storage unit to our new house! It's so good to see all of our furniture again and I think it'll look really great once we get everything put back together and in the right place.

We got the keys to our house on Tuesday morning and have been working non-stop since. We had the bright idea to repaint all of the doors and trim because they were dingy and yellowed, and they turned out great but it was a nightmare of a project. We just took the panting tape off this morning and the fresh white trim definitely makes a huge difference in sprucing the place up. We also repainted the kitchen because it was a coral/salmon color that would have clashed with our red kitchen stuff. It is now taupe and looks really good.

And by "we"--- as in "we just finished moving all of our stuff" or "we repainted the trim/kitchen"--- I mean Kolby and I with the indispensable help of several key workers. The list of lifesavers that we are ever indebted to includes Kevin (Kolby's dad), Kassidy (Kolby's sister), Brad & Remy (my brother and SIL), Brittany, Alayne & Tommy (friends), Gran & Daddy Monk (Kolby's grandparents), Kolby's Grandfather, and our friends Zac, Kathy, and Mark. Thank you, thank you, thank you. There's no way on earth we could have pulled this off without your help!

Right now we're at Kolby's parents house to take a break and pick up Maya. Maya has been such a trooper in dealing with all the transition this whole summer, but this week I finally started to see signs that she has had enough. We haven't seen her hardly at all this week because we've been spending all of our time either at work or at our new house and she's used to at least one of us being around most of the time. When we got home really late on Thursday night she came up to me and put her paw in my hand and wanted me to hold it. I did, and we just sat on the floor holding hands and watching TV for half an hour. Anytime I would let go she would put her paw back up in the air and ask me to hold it again. That's how a mute dog tries to tell you that she doesn't want you to leave anymore. Little does she know that we're about to load up and head to our new, PERMANENT home... and that she even has a yard!

Now it's back to work, but I'll post some pictures soon.