So, we're here. Finally!

Thursday night we walked into our new house for the very first time. The previous owners left a bottle of champagne and who glasses in the fridge (OUR new fridge ;) and we drank that and ate some pizza on the living room floor. We moved some things, too.

Friday morning the movers came at 9am and had us in our new place around 1pm. Sweet! The chickens had a rough time of the move, I'm sorry to say. We had to put them in their crates for a short amount of time and Belle hated it so much that she hurt her paw trying to get out. She's doing must better, now though. It took them a little while, but they're assimilating just fine. I can see buddy across the hall in the master bedroom sitting right on top of my bureau looking at me.

Friday was a blurr, so much unpacking. His mom took us out to dinner to celebrate then my sister Tara helped me unpack my kitchen (my NEW kitchen!).

We didn't sleep all that well that first night - the chickens were all over the place and very unsettled which means that we were unsettled. Up at 6am on Saturday, we got back to unpacking and then the cable guy came and hooked us up with cable! the Internet! and a land line! Yeah, we hadn't expected to need a land line. I can't tell you the last time I had one - it's weird to pick up the phone. But the cell phone service here is absolutely unreliable, so a land line was unfortunately a necessity.

We met up with Janet and her dad for breakyfast then then headed over to our first trip to Home Depot as homeowners. We spend at least an hour there. I circled the entire store twice in the time that it took Jimbo to get through two aisles. And I picked out a new toilet seat, cabinet hardware, a dust pan, and a few other necessities which I wheeled around in our new trash bin.

Mom, Dad and Grammy stopped by afterward with some flowers for my window boxes and a fall wreath for the door. We all hung around the kitchen and while mom and I finished unpacking the kitchen (thank goodness!). Janet came by after dinner to check out the place and we hit the hay early.

It was yet another restless night and we were both up before 7am thanks to our lovely chickens. Let's hope that tonight is a little more restful.

Today our electrician (Jimbo's cuz) came over to help us out with some stuff, and then we headed off to our first (of many, I'm sure) day of shopping. Kohls, Christmas Tree Shop, Building 19 1/15 (I hate the smell and the feel of rugs area rugs - if I never touch another again it will be too soon), Petsmart, Target and finally Home Depot again. I really wanted to go to Home Goods, but after five hours of shopping, we had had enough.

We walked in the door and lugged our purchases in and Jimbo's bro and sis-in-law stop by to see the place. They left not too long ago. I cleaned up a little but and put up my new shabby chic curtains and now I'm writing this. I gotta go to work tomorrow, but that's almost like a rest, so I'm going to go in.

I wish I had pics for y'all, but I haven't had time for that, either.