6 August 2011

I'm so excited that we're finally in our little apartment in Redmond! We had many things we had to get done before our journey was complete. One being the interview for Dave's green card!

We had turned in the paper work months ago and kept waiting for the day to come when we had to go in for the interview (which we expected to be like in the movies "Green Card" and "The Proposal" but it wasn't really like that which we're ok with). Well we finally had the interview scheduled and then we found out we were moving up to Redmond so we had to make sure we were still in AZ for the interview and then we wanted to leave for WA right after that but the movers had a different plan.

We had boxed everything up in about a week. This is what the apartment looked like all boxed up - 

So the movers came Wednesday morning (the day after the interview... we wanted them the day before it) and they all commented as they came in individually on our piano that we have. Which is beautiful and has been in my family forever and we're so glad to have but those poor movers had to lift a heavy very old piano and they were not very excited about that. But after they had loaded that up they loaded up the bed which they also all commented on saying it was a really light bed and to never get a temper-pedic bed so they wouldn't ever have to lift that (I guess they're really heavy).

They finally had everything loaded up, we said goodbye to our apartment and hit the road. We drove 12ish hours to Ogden, UT where we met up with Travis and Emily at like 12 at night to chat and grab some food (I was pretty much a sleep the whole time)

Just taking off

 After we met up with Travis and Emily we dove into our hotel bed and were sad to see the sleeping hours go by as quickly as they did. When the alarm went off we got ready and left for Pendelton, OR where Dave's brother Lance and his family live. This time the drive was about 8ish hours.

 We stayed over at Lance's house for a few hours and then went to our hotel slept, went back to there house for about an hour and then took off again. This last bit of driving was 4ish hours long and then we finally made it to our apartment.

 We signed our lease, loaded the car that was filled to the brim (we could hear it as it dragged around corners and over bumps) into our apartment and got some more things from my parent's house. I went to Blake Risenmay's homecoming thing at his house with my family and it was great to see his family and him again as well as a few other high school friends too!

Today we ran to Target and bought our first kitchen table (which is too cute and I love it... I can't believe we went almost a year without one) and a few other things we needed for our new apartment, went to Best Buy to pick up a new (old) modem so we could get our internet (because apparently the one we got like 5 months ago was too new that comcast didn't have it in their system yet), bought groceries, and had my siblings help us out with the unloading of everything. (The boys helped out yesterday too with the car unloadings, I'm so glad I have such helpful brothers)

In our new apartment

We're the 2nd level apt

So excited about my table! I just have to build the other two chairs now