Monday, July 28, 2008

Moving...gag me with a spoon!


I’m pretty sure our family and friends hate us by now with as many times as we’ve moved in the past 5 years (Thanks, Kris). We’ve pretty much moved every year for the past five years. Heck, I hate me for moving that much. Moving is pretty much one of the most unpleasant things one can do. Include moving in the middle of a nasty, humid summer and it’s pretty much the equivalent of childbirth for men. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration but with all the lifting and sweating and pain, it’s all we’ve got, ladies. Let us think we’re really suffering even though you really know it’s nothing.

Our new house (yes, I said house) is on the campus of ASU Polytechnic (or ASU East). It’s all the old military housing that ASU now provides to student families at wicked awesome rates. We just moved out of a two bedroom apartment and now live in a 3 bedroom/2 bath house w/ den. It’s about 1300+ sq. ft. and we’re paying roughly the same in rent. Is that nuts!? Oh yeah, and they include water, not to mention free cable and high speed internet! It’s almost like we’re making money on this deal, except we’re not because we write them checks and not the other way around. Anyways…

So, we’re all moved in and in the process of unpacking (ugh.). At least the unpacking is inside an air conditioned building. However, still unpleasant. The good news is that we have a ton of space to put all of our stuff (read crap). We also have enough space to have more than two people over to visit. Yeah!! So we’ll probably be planning a get together in the future. Hopefully I’ll have a grill by then and we can have a barbecue when it starts to cool off.

To anyone who reads this blog that helped us move in any way, big or small, THANK YOU. We’ve been horrible at moving in the past, unorganized and scatter-brained. This time around was so much smoother. We had a ton of help loading up the U-Haul and even more unloading. It went much faster than I had imagined. Thank you Emerald Bay Ward and Family and Friends.

We love our new house. We’re happy in our new ward but will miss the friends we've made (you can always move out here by us, you know!). Please keep in touch whether you’re moving to Connecticut or not at all. Thanks for you friendships, kind words and all the help.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

i hate moving. let us know what you think of asu east, please? we are still planning on coming out there in novemeber. can you paint the walls? (thats a big requirment for me.)

goldfixe said...

As far as I understood you can paint the walls. You may need to get approval from someone but as long as you paint them back to white when you leave you should be fine.

Anonymous said...

yay! you love them kristi?! they are so cute i think. we will be in the same ward again, yeeeeeeah.

Richelle Johnson said...

Oh, I know what you mean about moving!!! I loved the pic with the wicked witch under the boxes :) Keep us updated!

Trisha & Robert Wright said...

Congratulations, Say Hi to the Zamoras when you meet them, Bothe families used to be in our ward. Adam and Liz as well as James and Carlie. Adam and James are brothers. Anyhoo, Invite us, we love to barbeque.