Still Packing...

So, we are still packing up the house.  The first day we started packing we were ready to ball our eyes out because it seemed like we were getting no where.  It got better as we started seeing progress.  We have now hit another road block because we are just simply tired of packing.  I don't want to see another box nor use anymore newspaper to wrap up fragile items. 

As of today, we have probably 95% of our things inside the house packed up.  I am not counting the food because that will stay with us.  We have not packed up Andy's shop yet, but I think we are going to store most of those things in his dad's barn until we are ready for it in Katy.  Yesterday my dear friend Tamara and her son Presley came over to help us pack.  They were lifesavers!  We couldn't have tackled the kitchen, clothes, and the other odds and ends without them.  They were awesome! 

Tomorrow Dustin and Julio (two of Andy's previous cross country runners... they have both graduated now) are coming over to help us load the U-Haul truck with all of our boxes, electronics, and hopefully some furniture too.  Then they are going with us to Katy Saturday morning to unload all of it in the storage building until we are officially new residents of Katy, Texas.  I am definitely ready to be done with this whole moving thing, but I know God has it all worked out according to His plan so we will continue to pray and be patient.

Here are some pictures throughout the week...

Lonestar pooped out pretty quickly...

This room is now completely FULL, and
there are more boxes in another room.

My way of feeling accomplished.  Any cabinet,
closet, etc. gets an empty sticky when
everything's been packed.

I probably went a little overboard.

Lonestar and Maddie are both tired of us packing and are ready to be moved!!

 

This is a random side note to packing... We have been giving Andy's parents a hard time about their TV because it was 24" which is really small for their living room.  Well, really small for any living room, except maybe a camper.  It reminded me of an oversized computer monitor.  Anyway, Andy's mom decided to get his dad a new TV for Father's Day.  (It's the TV that I plan on getting us for the living room in the new house.)  This TV is freakin' awesome!!!  Seriously, it's unreal!  It has WiFi which means we can connect to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. via the TV.  The Facebook TV app is not very user friendly, but the YouTube app is fantastic.  You can connect the TV to an iPhone or iPad!  I mean, really!?!  So, we hooked up to the iPad, pulled up a video from YouTube on the iPad, and it played the video on the TV.  I mean, seriously!?!  Who can do that with a TV!?!  Technology is so amazing.  I sounded like a giddy school girl who just got her first kiss.  It's so cool!  I cannot wait until we have this TV or one like it.

Yep, that's the YouTube video that we found
on the iPad and it played on the TV.  WOW!!