Mom and Dad's Moving Day!

Yay, hurray! My parents' house is finally finished and they get to move in! The Lord provided the most perfect weather imaginable!

Our friends Chad and Kindra graciously offered to drive over from MP to help them move...what a huge help! Tricia recently injured her shoulder, so she took babysitting duty. (Though it must be said, injury or no injury, that she would enjoy watching my kids more than helping move and I would enjoy helping move more than "watching" my kids)!
So Jordan came along to help her out, and they had a grand time doing crafts and riding bikes in her driveway on such a gorgeous day!

Knowing the stairs predicament for moving out of that apartment would be enough to dishearten anyone. But, my dad was ingenious to build this "slide" over the staircase, and it worked beautifully!
The guys had a good routine. My dad was bringing sorting stuff and bringin boxes to the top of the step, Chad launched them down the slide (or carried down the open boxes), Jerry snagged them at the bottom and carried them the few steps to the truck, where Mark was waiting to pack them in the truck. It didn't take long!

While they were doing that, my mom, Rebecca, Kindra, and I were finishing up the packing and cleaning the apartment-so that when we left, there was no reason for my mom to have to go back to do anything-just focus on settling the new house!


Several guys from their church came to help with the piano-what a blessing!

And unloading at their new house!
All in all, everything went very smoothly! My mom's "boss," (our chiropractor, who is more like a family friend than anything!) brought dinner over, Tricia (gladly) returned all of the children to their rightful owners, and we called it a day! (Well, our family did-as in driving home). Mom, Dad, and Rebecca certainly didn't get to call it a day yet.
Can't wait to visit them in their new place!