Our Move to Charleston

The content of this post is the real reason I have not blogged for 3 months. Renovating an old house and moving takes a lot of time and energy - especially for a pregnant lady.

We just moved in July out here to Grandpa McEntire's farm in Charleston (the southwest corner of Heber Valley). Although the past few months have been busy making this change - we are settling in and enjoying our new adventure.

We spent most of our free-time during the month of June driving up here and working on this home. I wish we would have taken pictures before we started working, so you would have an idea of the transformation we made to this 100 year old home. But we were eager to get started and didn't think about pulling out the camera at the time.

Here is how some of us slept our first night in our home - camped out amidst all the moving boxes: the real moving miracle was that we made it to church the next morning at 9:00. I unpacked random boxes that morning to find our shoes and church clothes.

Here is the day we actually moved. It was a great help to have Suz and her kids around - she stayed at our house the week before the move - (even though just the thought of moving gave her anxiety because she moved 4 times in a year.) She helped me pack up the house and helped with our big yard sale. Also, I think my kids were distracted having their cousins around to play with- so they were not upset at all seeing all of their stuff taken out of the house. My mom was also great and came over and cleaned for hours and helped at the yard sale, too.

LaMar helping to load the moving trunk - Where did all this junk come from?

This picture is Caroline helping to entertain the kids while Suz and I did last minute packing and ordering the guys around. (Thanks for your help Caroline.)

Paul painting the kitchen doors: He worked really hard drove up here about every other day before we moved in to paint, work on the floors, clean up the yard, and take care of the garden and chickens. (you can check out Cathy's cute chicken video if you want). So, I guess the fact that we are now moved in is somewhat of a relief. We are not driving back and forth so much. We still have lots of projects we want to do, but at least the interior is pretty much done and livable.

Here I am in early June planting our garden. It is now producing zucchini, squash, and tomatoes. Unfortunately, the cucumber plants didn't make it and we'll have to see about the potato plants come fall:

Here I am working on painting Abigail's room. It turned out cute - I should add a picture of it now that it is furnished and decorated. Thanks to Pete for having the idea of painting the floors and ripping out the carpet that smelled like cat pee.

Here is Pete and Paul clearing some junk out of the old milking house - or what we call the "Cat House" - Pete has been a great help with our projects - Thanks so much!