Crazy week

This has been one crazy week.

Friday we moved! Well we at least pack up all of our stuff and the movers came and moved it to the basement of the church. The movers were awesome! We moved but I think I lifted 4 boxes all day!

After the movers finished packing the stuff at the old place, we went packed up the car and went to Salvation Army, ate lunch, finished cleaning the apartment and left our keys on the counter. By the time we got down to the church, the movers were just unloading the last few boxes into the basement.

So with out a place of our own to lay our heads, we have been staying with some congregation members at the Kapec Kastle. Meanwhile Daisy, the dog, and Zig & Krotida, the lizards, have been staying with other congregation members, which is also where we had a wonderful Italian dinner last night.

But this morning we are off...off to Minnesota and then Wisconsin to visit family and friends. By the time we land in MN I should have a new niece or nephew. We will also celebrate my brother's 30th birthday and Bob's brother's birthday.

But most importantly we are going to the Minnesota State Fair! Really that is the reason why we are going on vacation. We haven't been to the fair since 2005 and have dearly missed it every year. But this year we will gorge ourselves on food on a stick, see the world's largest pig, and drink all the "all you can drink" milk that we can, check out the crop art and possibly even see someone making art out of tree stumps. Ohh I love the state fair! I'm feeling giddy just thinking about it!

Let the packing begin

Last week I packed up a few boxes of books in order to get ready for the big move to the parsonage. But today the real packing began. I packed three boxes of various kitchen stuff - pots and pans that I won't use in the next week, the kitchen aid mixer (I think Bob teared up when I packed that) and some other random kitchen are like the waffle maker.

I also packed up my sewing machine and sewing stuff, a few boxes of DVD's, photos and some other random stuff in the living room. Slowly are stuff is going in boxes to hopefully see the light of day again sometime in September.

Bob also finished boxing his main bookshelf and other random office stuff. All totaled we realized that we are gonna need more boxes and more packing tape.

And can I just say I love craigslist. We posted our old dining room chairs, a big blue papison chair (yes I have no clue how to spell that) and a bookshelf under the free section and they were all taken within an hour. Yeah for recycling some furniture and less stuff in the dump.

Hopefully the remodel on the parsonage continues to go well so that we can move in after we get back from Minnesota and Wisconsin at the end of the month.