The Hardys: Moving

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

First Projects

We have a few projects we'll need to do around the house soon, but a few took precedence. :)

Chase's Bed

He loved helping

Obviously unpacking boxes and finding all kinds of toys

Exploring the new house

And a washer and dryer <3 p="">

Now we all can sleep in comfy beds and wear clean clothes. Life is good. :)

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Moving across country with two little boys and a cat is madness. But we did it. I had refused to drive cross country with those three, so Marcus and his dad drove the moving truck while my mom, Chase, Ty, Chicago, and I flew. We definitely had an adventure.

It was a blur with the final cleaning to the Uber picking us up and arriving at the airport. Seriously, it went by so quickly. It all seemed so far away, and then BAM, we were at the airport.

Getting all our stuff to the airport.

Ty was pretty great and calm :)

Chase was a good helper and loved rolling his suitcase around.

Chicago was actually super calm - barely made any noise. I don't more than a handful of people even realized we had a cat.

so. much. stuff.

Our flight was delayed. They said it shouldn't affect any connections, but it did. It was crazy. We thought we'd miss the connection and have to stay in the airport overnight, which would have been terrible. But the flight attendants appealed to the hearts of the wonderful people on our plane and convinced them to "let the family of small children get off first so they wouldn't have to stay overnight in the airport." It's like we were VIPs. And we booked it over to the other gate.

Luckily the second flight had been delayed, but then it waited for our suitcases to arrive. (I believe there were ten others doing the same connection - guess that's enough to wait!) The people on the plane didn't like us as much for the delay...

My mom had a plan of how to divide up, since we were able to sit all together, but in the rush, it all got jumbled. I sat with Ty and Chicago in the back by two cranky ladies. Ty and Chicago were both so quiet and well behaved - they probably felt stupid :) And my mom and Chase were up front. The only really bad thing was that I had Chase's lollipop. Oops.

Thankfully after a few hours we landed and it was all over. Except we were done and Marcus and Mike still had like twenty hours of driving left... Glad I was on the airplane!

We moved in to our house a little later in the week, after Marcus and the truck arrived - and after basically everyone had the flu. Good times.

Chase anxiously looking for his "77 House"

And then we were ready to start unpacking tons of boxes.

Welcome Home, ~~NYC~~ UT Hardys

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Packing Progress

Packing is pure madness. Moving across the country is nuts. But going from a one-bedroom in Queens to a house in Utah made it a lot less stressful. Nevertheless, boxes for days...

I started piling stuff in the living room, but that quickly got out of control

Then I started piling boxes in the bedroom.

At least one guy was always a happy helper.

Chase had his good moments too :)

I guess so did the cat.

Everything made it into a box. Took me weeks. But we did it.

Friday, April 15, 2016

Box #1

If you didn't know, we're moving in May. Marcus has been relocated. (Codeword has offices in New York City, San Francisco, and, wait for it, South Salt Lake City.) Obviously this isn't as scary as it could be coming from a one bedroom apartment. However, the amount of stuff you have between musical instruments and two young boys is insane. I decided that before we go out of town for Spring Break, I needed to attempt to start cleaning somewhere in the apartment.

I decided I wanted to start with what we lovingly call the Roach Motel. That's the wooden cabinet in our "kitchen" full of spices and snacks. It seemed like a great starting point because I could pack up some bakeware, put the spices onto the wire rack, and trash the Roach Motel.