Move #2

I am calling this Move #2 because after the move from the "Phoenix" house to our new home, now we have the move from our apartment (Oct 31).  And yikes... so much stuff!!!

I don't know how we managed to live in this apartment these last few weeks.  It has been quite chaotic but thankfully, the ever changing weather/micro-climate here keeps things interesting.  For example, this layer of thick fog on the drive back to the apartment:

We were sad to give up our queen size bed but there just wasn't any room for it in the new house as we now have the king size bed from Phoenix.

Or as Charlie puts it... it's the 3-fitter bed because it can now fit 3 people - Daddy, Mommy, and him! Ha ha ha!!!

PS: Dodgers lost again in the World Series!!! :-(  Although I did have my Boston Red Sox shirt underneath my sweater when we were having dinner at this restaurant.  Shhhh....

Okay, we are (sort of) ready for the furniture from the apartment.  It's going to be a tight squeeze:

Here goes!  And yes, we did hire movers for this move as well:

Semi-packed:

Boys' bed were still not even cleared up yet the day of the move. I was so far behind in packing!

I have never seen this dining/study table so clean :-D

Hey look!  A flower!!!

Graham's new massive study/inventor table is finally getting a new home:

Oh wait... still didn't clear up anything in the kitchen yet either!  YIKES!!!

The movers were pretty efficient:

These two on the other hand, were not!

Did I mention I still had the kitchen to pack up??!

And somehow this pile of boxes were never sorted through after our move from Abu Dhabi a year ago.  So I get to take them to the next place and hopefully I will go through it this time around???!

Hmm.... I should have had the movers pack up our clothes too!

The couch, love seat, chair, and coffee table are in!  We really need to manage the sizing of the furniture a little bit better next time.  Everything is massive!

Hey, but at least our door mat is perfect :-)

Since the garage is full, the boxes have overflowed onto the back patio. So glad we have this additional option and so glad it doesn't rain much here:

O... M... Goodness... we should have bought a bigger house:

I have no idea what we are going to do with all this stuff!  Good thing Goodwill is just around the corner or perhaps we need to have a garage sale.  Should have done that before moving.  Hmmm... didn't plan that one out very well. Ha ha!

The boys get one more last swim before the lease is up:

One last load from the apartment (Nov 5th). Thankfully we had a few extra days to get everything else out of the apartment.  It took me almost 3 hours alone just to pack up that tiny little kitchen!!!

Graham and Charlie have already taken over the "adult" living room.  How is that??!  Oh wait... their living space is a bit messy.  Remember my O... M... Goodness remark and "we should have bought a bigger house?"  That's suppose to be their living area.  Okay, okay...

At least we have a new light fixture in the dining area:

And some additional lighting in the kitchen.  The electrician is still working on some things.  Can't wait till everything is done!

He still has to fix this hole too in the ceiling.  Oops!

And oh... we still have to pick out the paint color for the house.  Unless we want to live in an "abandoned house" as Charlie puts it. Maybe we should just call our house "Patches" and call it a day :-)  It's not looking as bad as before now that the stucco is drying up more?!?

At least Graham's new desk is looking AWESOME in his bedroom!  That "antique red" color on his accent wall is really RED!!!

The new adventure continues!!!