Home Sweet Home

We're in!  We've been packing and transporting boxes to our new house for a good week now and can now officially say that we're out of the apartment and into the house!  Once again, Chapa's Moving Service made the process of moving all the "big stuff" relatively smooth and painless (and all at only $40/hr!!) though I should probably add that I was at work all day Thursday as Serg guided the movers--he may not say "smooth and painless" quite as enthusiastically as I did.  Regardless, we're in and are now in the middle of phase 2: unpacking.  Every day consists of at least 10 "have-you-seen?"s or "where-the-#$@-is-the...??".  Unfortunately, I've had hardly any time to unpack with all the end-of-year craziness going on at school.  We'll get there...

Our new house is a pretty simple and unassuming little place and still needs a ton of landscaping work to spruce up the outside, but the inside is fantastic.  3 bedrooms and a study, 2 bathrooms, laundry, garage, and a nice spacious kitchen, the layout is great.  We finally have a real pantry with nice wide shelves and a kitchen you can fit more than 2 people in at once.  The only problem we've encountered so far is discovering that the bedroom doorways aren't wide enough to move Michael's crib through.  We've tried every possible position but there is no way that thing is getting into his bedroom without first dismantling it completely.  For right now the crib is sitting in the study until Serg gets the courage to take it apart and (hopefully) put it back together again in the room.  Until then, it's pack-n-play living for the baby....sorry bud!

The yard is a good size but desperately needs some work.  Within the next month or two we plan to completely till everything and plant new seed, hopefully in time to have a nice little lawn in place before Michael's 1st b-day bash in mid-August.  Serg is already planning the menu for a big BBQ get-together for friends and family, but first we gotta have a place to grill and eat outside!

We've got lots of great memories in our cute little apartment on Colorado St, but we're more than ready to make some new ones in our new place!

[pictures to come!!]