Officially... 98029!

The Crea's are FINALLY nestled into their new home in Issaquah. Let me just start this blog off by saying that if I NEVER move again in this lifetime, I am 100% okay with that! Man, moving is just SUCH a hassle... and we even hired movers this time!! I will say though that Rocco and I have been busting a move around here and have gotten SO much done. Don't get me wrong, we still have a long way to go but I am pretty impressed with our progress! We have been working morning until night with not much resting in between. When we do finally sit down at the end of the day, it's all over!

Moving day went great. We decided that it would be worth it to hire movers this time around and boy was it worth every dime we spent! We had 3 guys who literally worked 12 hours non stop (minus a 10 minute pizza break) unloading 2 trucks (Yes, they couldn't fit everything in the truck on their first trip so they had to make a second trip and managed to fill it up again!) and those guys were busting their butts! The only downfall was that only one of them spoke broken English so my color-coded organization system didn't work out quite as well as I thought it would. Yes, you read that correctly, I had floor plans printed out with different colored stickers in the rooms with coordinating colored stickers on the boxes that were to go IN that room. They sort of got the concept but I still got a lot of confused looks even though the box said KITCHEN on it with a red sticker that corresponded to the red sticker on the layout I gave them. Whatever, in the end the boxes were primarily where they needed to be! :)

The days since moving day have been filled with unpacking, unpacking, and more unpacking... Rocco has been working diligently out in his VERY FIRST garage while I work on the interior. After trips to IKEA and Lowes, Rocco has got a pretty cool system down in the garage, I love it! The best part is, we can actually park BOTH cars in it! :) The interior is coming along... of course I want walls painted, window treatments up, art hung, etc... like NOW, but I just keep reminding myself that this will all take time... and money!

So, all in all things are going great! We can't stop saying to each other, "I can't believe WE actually live HERE!" We are both so excited to grow into this house and raise a family here. We feel so blessed. Not only do we love this house, but we love the area and especially our neighbors! In the last few days, we have had several families come by to introduce themselves and welcome us and we even had someone bring us a chicken dinner and another brought us a bouquet of flowers! Wow, who does that?! We spoke with one neighbor who informed us that there are roughly 30 kids in 20 houses so they are always organizing family gathering, etc. and even "Happy Hours" for the adults! In fact for Easter, everyone pitches in and the neighborhood does a HUGE Easter egg hunt in the entire neighborhood. It will be interesting to see how it turns out!

Well, I better get up and pretend I am working before Rocco comes in from working in the garage! :) I will post some pictures soon!

<3 Sarah, Addi, Gizmo, and Woody!