Moving day finally arrived! Here is our "Fixer Upper" house...all ours!
We knew closing day was coming up, so we were packing up our apt. and cleaning, and getting ready for the BIG move. We were signing papers on Thursday, the 28th and planning on the keys either that evening or the 1st of March - Friday. Our wonderful elder's quorum president (Ray Tuckett) was going to be out of town but promised us the man in charge of "moves" had it all in hand. The plan was to fill a small Uhaul on Thursday night with everything but our bed, leaving room for it. Also, Dave brought a truck from work that we could fill up too.Oh, back track on the Uhaul story...a cute couple in our ward run the storage units where our stuff is stored and they rent uhauls. I reserved a 20 foot Uhaul for Saturday to empty our two storage units. Then we decided to get a smaller one to do the apt and so I reserved that (they only had a 10 ft available so I booked it). Come to find out, sweet Marissa thought that meant I wanted to CANCEL my 20 ft on Saturday! Yikes! She had to do some searching to find me a big one for that day, and turns out she found one at the place right by our new house where we would be staying Friday night and could pick it up Saturday morning. So it all worked out, but boy was I stressed for a bit!!! Anyway, we signed papers Thursday morning and when it came time to load the small uhaul and work truck Thursday night, the guy in charge of "moves" and his daughter were the only ones who came to help!!!! Are you kidding??? thankfully two neighbors saw us and came to help. And Joel and Kristen came too. Joel and Kristen have been amazing through this whole ordeal. So Friday morning- the 1st..Dave had taken the day off to prep for moving in. I still had Walter and he played pretty well in the empty apartment while I finished up some cleaning. Dave and Joel loaded up our bed (and a friend of Joel's - they came straight from class before he had to head to work) and loaded any last minute things. We filled up both our cars with TV's, computers and a few breakable things and things I didn't want the men man-handling ha ha. We had 4 vehicles and 2 drivers to get everything over to the house, so we asked our neighbor if he would follow Dave out with the Uhaul so he could park it at the new house (until we had word we could get the keys) and then bring Dave back so he could drive the work truck over when it was time. We waited on pins and needles all during the day for "the word!" Well, when Dave went out to drop off the Uhaul, the sellers were STILL MOVING OUT!! What? We closed on the 28th! By the way, we could have closed on the 21st as that is the day THEY closed on the house they bought, but no, they needed an extra week to get their house ready!!! They new we were supposed to be out of our apartment on the 28th and they pushed it back until then. Thankfully our landlords are super sweet and their son waiting to move in had a few more days before they closed on their house. It all worked out, but I was upset that they got to push it back like that. ANYWAY, yes, they were still moving out. We would get texts through the day, "paperwork all in" "everything approved" and finally, "FUNDING WENT THROUGH" it was 2 p.m. and we now had official owner rights! Well, Amanda is supposed to get out of school at 2:45 on Fridays so the plan was that as soon as she got Walter we would head to the house. I had carpet guys coming at 2 to measure, but we bumped it back to 4 as the day went on and we weren't getting notice yet. Well, Amanda had FIVE students stay after to take a test!!! She didn't get there until almost 3:30! I was really panicking. But I jumped in my loaded up car to get out there and meet the carpet guys. Imagine my surprise when the sellers were STILL there!!! "Waiting for the piano movers." I said we were there to measure for carpets and they said, come on in, you owned it as of 2 o'clock. AWKWARD. So he's measuring and I'm telling him this and that and the lady is in the kitchen on the phone and her friend who was helping her clean was just leaving. She hadn't gotten any food out of the fridge or freezer and still had a freezer in the garage to unload. And still wait for the piano movers. OH. MY. GOSH. It was the most awkward thing. She would tell me this and that about the house, things they left for whatever, how to work the remote for the family room light, just STUFF. And of course the piano movers got stuck in traffic and didn't get there until almost 5. Amanda and the kids had shown up so she started washing out the fridge for me, while the other lady was apologizing that it didn't get done. Me and David started sweeping out the garage so the guys could start unloading boxes. And of course they apologized that it wasn't done already. Whatever. Oh, and the kids were so excited because a basketball hoop came with the house...David comes running in and says, Grandma, there's no basketball hoop! So the lady says, oh, we gave that to the neighbors (it was in the front yard next door) and I said, the listing said it came with the house. So she called her husband. She said the 2 little boys next door always come over to play so they just gave it to them, but would it be okay if they still came over to play? I said sure. In the meantime, the nice neighbor moved his car so the kids could play in his driveway. It got moved back thankfully and I can see the kids out there playing instead of worrying about them running out into the street after balls.
The Laings lived just through the block! We are so excited about that! Not in the same ward as us, but the same stake. Well, they came over to help us unload the little UHaul and the work truck - oh, it was snowing/raining while we did that! Joel and Kristen as well. Amanda and the kids were here helping with what they could and Amanda got Papa Murphy's pizza for us for dinner. We turned on our oven and it started smoking from the cleaner stuff they used on it (NOT CLEAN by the way) so that was fun. The kitchen is a dirty, greasy mess and the cupboards, oooh, I don't even like touching them! And the pantry is so dirty, I will NOT be putting any food in it until it gets painted! So that is the story of moving day ONE. The previous owners FINALLY left but promised to come back tomorrow to get their clunker car that was parked on the side of the house. And they will stop by occasionally to get their mail because they didn't have it forwarded yet. ??? Our first night was spent listening to the master toilet run. When we set up our utilities with the City of Lehi, they said, oh, there seems to be a leak. So our realtor had called the seller's realtor and they said it was the master toilet and that they had the part for it but hadn't fixed it yet. Also, the hall light fixture was broken but they had bought a new one so it can be fixed too. Thanks I guess.
Saturday morning our ward (Lindon ward) was planning to meet at our storage units to help load the large Uhaul. Again, snowing/raining. YAY. Every time we move! Dave went to get the uhaul and they actually had a 26 footer which was great! And Nate had his trailer too. And with the work truck, we emptied both units in one day! Joel and Kristen were there and they had rounded up several friends and a set of missionaries! The number of people from our ward was 4 men and a few boys. More than Friday's crew, but we would have been terribly short handed if Joel's group hadn't been there. I again loaded my car as much as I could at the storage unit and then I went back to the house to start cleaning while they loaded the Uhaul. A sweet lady who was at the storage with her husband (RaeMi Stanworth) said she would come help me clean. So she did for a bit. That was fun. But oh so gross. The kitchen cupboard just had me ill. I had asked our new ward for help unloading the truck around 11:30. I have never had luck asking our new wards to help us move in, it just never works. It worked a LITTLE this time. Three men came. And Joel and Kristen and a couple of the guys from our Lindon ward followed us out from the storage units to help unload. That was awesome! We are so grateful! Now my garage is stuffed to the brim and it will take me months to get everything gone through and put away. Everything we own is here now. Dave and I sat on the couch and just listened. So quiet! We have a house! It's just us! It was an amazing feeling! That night (our second night here) it was crazy windy! We thought our roof was coming off! There was banging in the rafters, windows whistling, we just could not believe it! I told Kelly Laing I couldn't believe that wind and she said, oh yeah, it gets real windy here. WHAT? What have we done? ha ha.
Sunday, we were nervous about going to our new ward because everyone would know whose house we had moved into and they might be sad that those people left! I was not having very good feelings about those people because of their not willing to bend a little on closing. And then being here for so long while we were trying to move in. But we did go to church. We sat about 3 rows back in the overflow and only 1 or 2 people in front of us, enough of a view that I saw the usher by the door fall stiff as a board, flat on his face. Out cold. The Sacrament was just about over when it happened. And of course people ran right over to help and someone called 911. The boys finished up their duties and the man conducting asked us all to just sit reverently and wait until the emergency personnel came and got him. Then he started testimony meeting and no one went up for a bit. It was a tense situation I think. But finally some people did and it got going. After the closing prayer the bishopric member stood up and said he had word that the boy was okay (I think they called him Tank) but he'd damaged some teeth. He must have hit with his chin. I was sure it was his forehead and that he'd have a concussion or something. He was out cold. I think he was awake by the time they wheeled him out. But he hit hard. Then we went to Sunday School. They asked if anyone was new or visiting so we stood up and said who we were and where we moved to. Only ONE man came over and talked to us afterwards. That was it. So we came home and a sister pulled right up with a plate of cookies. She had come by Saturday but we weren't there. She lives on the corner. That was our welcome.
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