Moved in

{Work Out: 45 minute Yoga Fitness TV work out this morning; I can already feel it in my legs}

Two weekends ago {October 1} Brian, Bear and I moved into your first home {well we're still renting but it's a house not an apartment}. I spent the week leading up to the move packing everything, Brian helped a little bit but his packing it somewhat limited. It's hard when you still have to live there and need to use things so it's always last minute.

With our cars packed Wednesday night, we went to go sign our lease on Thursday all excited to make the move. Unfortunately, our landlord didn't think the same thing so we kept everything packed in our vehicles and drove back to the apt. Friday after work Brian's mom {Kathy} drove in from Michigan to help us. It was great having three cars to fill up and take stuff over. Bear hated it. He was under our feet, crying, trying to get out the door; we felt so bad for him. We took two full car loads over Friday night and then stopped to watch the Tiger's playoff game and eat some pizza {a staple food for when you are moving}

Saturday morning we wake up to rain, not just a drizzle but at points a down pour. We loaded up the TVs in mine and my mother-in-law's car because to Brian TVs are like his babies. I sometimes think he loves TV more than me. We were able to get another load over to the house while Brian stayed waiting for the movers to show up. Meanwhile, I some how sliced my pinky and was bleeding. Kathy and I get to house, I go to unlock the door and realized that Brian only gave me 1 key to lock on the door knob, not the dead bolt and had the garage door remote in his car. My mother-in-law drove the 15 minutes to and from the apartment. Just as we start unloading and Brian calls to say that we need more bags. I run up to Kmart only to get back into my car and scrap my leg up right on the bone {the pain}.

The movers are packing up the van and Brian tells me that they made us take our clothes out of our drawers {we were told to keep them in there} because it was raining Ok no big deal except for the fact that Brian literally grab the clothes out of the dresser and threw them into the clothing boxes the movers provided us. To top it off, not all of my clothes fit into the clothing boxes so we'd have to make a couple trips back {all of these trips to and from the apartment, things not fitting into boxes makes we wonder if when we do move back to Michigan if we'll have to rent a semi to get us there}.

Kathy had pretty much finished putting the kitchen together and we had moved things into some of the rooms. The movers showed up and the cable guy about the same time, it was chaos and Bear was stuck in our extra bedroom crying.

By 3:45 the movers were finally done and the cable was hooked up and we were exhausted. I may of taken my exhaustion out on my mother-in-law when we got talking about moving back to Michigan and how it's expensive to live out here. It drives me up the wall when people tell me I'm wrong when I know that I am right. Brian does it to my a lot because he thinks that he always has to be right. I know that I can be wrong but when I know something is true and people are saying it's not, then I get fired up especially in regards to moving back to Michigan.

We met some friends {Matt and Emily} out in Southside for both of their birthdays. We had dinner at Nakama and then walked around to random bars til about midnight. Sunday we woke up on a mission to find an area rug since our family room is tiled. We went to Target {bought some additional items and food for the week}, Home Depot {looked at lawn mowers, a chain for the toliet and a piece of wood to put in our sliding door}, Petsmart {pooper scooper}, Levins {nada} and finally Kohls where we purchased our rug. By the time we hit Kohls we both were totally over shopping and with a house full of boxes I just wanted to get home to unpack.

I spent a good portion of the day putting our bedroom somewhat back together with clothes in our drawers and closet, I was exhausted by the time we made dinner, but I still had to pack to go on a work trip to Dallas {Monday-Wednesday}. Brian, of course, did minimal unpacking, but honestly I didn't expect much. If there is one thing I wish I could change about him would be his drive. Sometimes it's great but most of the time it's lacking. He never thinks so let me cook dinner or hey Kristen has been going up and down the stairs, maybe I should help him instead of having her ask me and then me getting mad. Tonight {10/10} is Monday Night Football Bears vs Lions and the Tigers are playing so you know you're going to get nothing done so why not help a little bit more. Unfortunately for me, he woke up feeling sick and when Brian is sick he is probably going to die. I have no sympathy what so ever when it comes to being sick. I had the stomach flu a few weeks ago and then a mild cold in which I still have this stupid cough yet I still kept on trucking.

Anyway, back to the subject otherwise I'll get all riled-up. On Saturday I spent 4 hours cleaning our old apartment but damn it looked good by the end {minus those god awful stick bugs}. Sunday we hit up Ikea and found a brown leather chair for $200 to stick in the corner of our family room, new duvet cover and sheets, shelves to put our bedroom tv on and a rug for our bathroom. We both love our chair and glad we spent a little more on something that looks really nice. Bonus part was we only have to put the legs on the thing. Last night I finished up a lot of unpacking and feel like we are in a good place.

These next couple of weeks are big-
-Tonight Monday Night Football, huge since the Lions haven't had a MNF game in ages plus they've pulled out some great wins this year so it's exciting to watch. My dad is down at the game with my Uncle Ed and probably Uncle Dan. Barry Sanders is out of the field and Tim Allen is in the audience.
-Saturday heading to Cleveland to watch the Michigan vs Michigan State game at Missy and Brad's place. I'm thinking about making Buffalo Chicken Bites, first time making them so I'm a little nervous

-I have next Friday off to head back to Michigan. That weekend is Shea's 2nd birthday, my brother- and sister-in-law's Finding Out Party {I have to work on games for this party} and then Brian and I are going to the Lions game
-Then we have Halloween which Missy and Brad might come visit
-The first weekend in November I might have to travel for work OR my mom is going to come visit us in Pittsburgh
-Brian's mom might come out the next weekend, then we get a weekend here then it's Thanksgiving

I sometimes love having so much planned especially if we aren't traveling home and people are coming to see us.