sea of boxes

With a little help from some friends and my mom, this week has been a productive one on the boxes front. Monday, in the sleet and snow, I moved several boxes into the house from the garage and other items from one bay to another in the garage in an effort to clear one bay so Brent could park in the garage. I didn't want him to have to defrost and chip out his car for an hour at 6am in order to get to work. Then another night Brent moved about 6 more boxes into the house. Getting all of that into the house was the first step, then it was just picking out one thing at a time and finding a new home for it. Today, while my mom took Emma and Bennett to ChuckECheese for Bennett's b-day "gift," I tackled the new playroom - which would be about half of the huge basement. It's hard to just toss a bunch of stuff since there are 2 other kids who will use the toys, but I gave it a good effort and culled the games and toys a bit. We are almost finished with the moving in process - still need a little organizing in a few spots, like the kids' rooms/closets. Most of the boxes still in the house just need to be taken to the storage area in the basement. Yea!
Well, the kids enjoyed a snow day Tuesday and got to sled down the pretty big hill this house is sitting on. We're still having some serious problems with our desktop - so much so that Brent called in the professionals for Monday - so still no pictures.
All remains fairly quiet at our house. There were tire tracks in the snow the other day and the AC unit is missing from the back of the house and the tree we are saving has been "roped off." Apparently the crew that does the demo and the framing work at such lightning speed that they are already waiting on us to make some final decisions on windows and doors. Next on the list will be tree removal and excavation (there should be some great pictures to be had during excavation with Bennett in his hard hat!), then the pouring of the foundation.
Check back soon for potential pictures of progress!