Moving to Texas!

The day finally came for us to close on our house! The timing was a little crazy, and Ben had to reschedule a flight for work, finally sign, and then head straight to the airport, but it all worked out. We actually ended up buying from a Mormon family who happened to sit in front of us when we were visiting a ward. We already knew we liked the neighborhood, had already looked at a similar floor plan, so when they introduced themselves to us and said we should look at their house, it all just kind of fell into place. And an added perk was that they are a super cute family and she loves to decorate, so a lot of our walls were already painted :)

My mom was a life saver and flew with me and the kids from WA to Dallas. The tricky part was Ben had to be in Atlanta for work, so he left our car at the airport, which happened to be at the furthest gate from where we landed, and he wasn't there for when we moved in. Mom and I amazingly managed the airport/car situation in 100 degree heat with 2 kids, stayed in a hotel, and the next day managed everything with the movers. It was stressful, but I was very proud of us! My mom is a work-horse and unpacked boxes as quickly as possible so we could send the boxes with the movers. I was in charge of checking every box number off and telling the movers where things went. (They were a little scary and intimidating). Luckily a friend watched Paige and we kept Deacon in his stroller with a lot of snacks.

We had quite a few issues with the moving company, but luckily all of them were fairly minor. I was slightly nervous to tell Ben the case holding his beloved Coach K signed ball was shattered, but luckily the ball was ok. Phew!

Luckily, after Ben was done seeing the secret Coke recipe vault and going to a Pitbull and Lady Gaga concert at his Microsoft MGX conference.....

...he flew in the following day so we had some help! And then on Monday my sweet dad arrived! We put him to work hanging decorations, building me a bench in the laundry room, installing baby locks, helping Ben with the TV mount, and any other projects I could come up with. My mom organized our entire closet and helped me with every other box. They are both crazy worker bees and would be up at 7 am drilling something or organizing another thing. On top of that they went to countless stores with me: Ikea and Home Depot at least 3 times, every decoration store in town, and then mom and I would go back to those decorating stores at night to exchange without kids. We even squeezed in a trip to the giant outlet mall. 

Tuesday the painters came and we went from light blue in the family room to a darker "charlotte slate" (thanks to my sister-in-law's color help). This is pre-slate color.

We did take breaks to eat out (a lot. Had to try Tex-Mex and Texas BBQ), and test out our new movie room! Our first showing? Project Runway :) Sorry honey.

We were all exhausted by the time my parents left but every single box was unpacked! They were a HUGE help and there is no way we could have done it without them.

And just like that, we became official Texas residents! So far we really like it here. The house is slowly looking more decorated and this is feeling more and more like home.