Moving....

I've been dreading going through these pictures and posting this blog because it makes me so homesick for Dallas!  

We decided late last fall that we were going to apply for law school for Andrew.  Lots of twists and turns later, it was May and we had to choose between two schools: Texas A&M and Texas Tech.  Ah, the agony!  Seriously, hardest decision ever!  There were major pros for both schools, but in the end, we decided on Lubbock and felt the Spirit confirm that decision.  

The only trouble was that we had exactly 3 1/2 weeks from when we made the decision to when we needed to be in Lubbock!  So those weeks were a bit....frantic.  No wonder it's taken me this long to catch up on the blog, eh?  :)  

It didn't really hit me that we were moving until we sold our couch on craigslist.  I actually cried when the buyers came to pick it up - and had to take one last picture of Eve and Daddy on it!  This was really happening :(

We replaced the couch with camp chairs for the remaining time until the move.  

Our move included some major downsizing so as we packed, we had to get rid of a lot of stuff.  2,400 square in Garland down to 1,300 in Lubbock.  Think thin, everyone!  And start packing!

We picked up and loaded the truck on Thursday, May 28th - that was one busy, long, tiring day!

And we couldn't get everything to fit!  :(  I told Andrew if he didn't get the elliptical and the girls' tramp to fit, I wouldn't go to Lubbock.  He made them fit.  But we had to leave several things in our garage for pick up at a later date.

I mostly cleaned, finished last minute packing, and watched the girls while Andrew and some good friends from church loaded the truck.  We were so grateful for their help!

The girls passed the time watching movies :)

And just like that, the house was empty and we were spending our last night in it before our drive to Lubbock in the morning.  

Abigail in her room:

Eve and Halle:

I wanted to get one last picture of the girls in our house before we left, only I forgot until we already had them loaded into the car.  So I unloaded them and brought them in, but Halle DID NOT want to get out of the car.  So she did not cooperate...

Goodbye house!  We have LOVED living in you!  :(  

Andrew drove the moving truck that was towing our Civic and I drove the mini-van with the girls.  Good thing it was only a 6 hour drive!  

We arrived around 4:30pm on Friday and got our first look at our new house!  

Then promptly began unloading :)  Which luckily goes much faster than loading!

The house was chaos:

But at last the truck was empty and we were ready for a break!

Unpacking could wait for another day.  We were just grateful to have arrived safely!