Finally Moved In!

We are all moved into our new house now!!!  Thank you so much for everyone who helped make this happen!!  We love it!  Our family has grown so much over the last 8 years and the other house was way too small for our growing family.  We have so much more space in our new house.  The kids and dogs are adjusting well.  This house is insulated really well.  You can barely hear the kids throughout the house.  I managed to get the house pretty much unpacked in a matter of 2-3 days.  I didn't realize how much stuff we have.  We managed to fill a 26 ft truck up a couple of times and we still have some stuff in our old house that we need to pick up.

It was a rough first week in our new house.  Our lawn mower broke, washer machine broke, and transmission went out in our van.  So far, we have managed to fix our van.  Thank goodness for warranties.  We also have a warranty on our lawn mower, so hopefully that will be fixed in the next couple of weeks.  Our poor washer machine has no warranty, boo.  So, it's not fixed yet!

We had a lot of friends over for Memorial Day!!  There was about 45 people that came!  Luckily we have a large back yard and home now to entertain this many people.  We love having friends over for BBQ's.  We are hoping this summer to have our youth group from church over for a BBQ. 

New House

We are very excited to tell everyone that we are moving.  Not very far, but still it's exciting to be moving.  We have lived in our current house for the last 8 1/2 years.  We moved in Christmas Eve, 2 weeks before Zachary was born.  It's amazing that when we moved in this house, that we only had 2 kids.  Now we are moving out with 6 kids.  We have definitely had great times in this house as we have been expanding our family.  Most of our kids have learned to walk in this house and this house holds a lot of memories.  I would say that Zachary is having the hardest time with the move.  He doesn't want to leave our current house.  I'm sure he will change his mind once we are moved in to the new house.  We went to the new house last night and the kids loved it.  The back yard is at least twice as big as our current back yard we have now.  We are a large family so I was very excited to hear that is has 3 1/2 bathrooms.  Here are a few pictures of the house.....

   

I love the kitchen, it is very open!

The laundry room is huge, for me anyway!!  This is just one side of it!

This is one side of the backyard from the deck!  The kids had fun last night

 running back and forth across it!

How does this happen??

The decluttering process has began.  It is amazing how much clutter can develop in your house over time.  The more kids you have, it seems the more clutter you have.  I have not done the greatest job at keeping it clean and organized over the last few months.  Life gets busy and before you know it, boom!  Your house is a clutter magnet! 
Over the next few days, this is going to be my project I'm attempting to tackle.  So far, I have done the laundry room and the front closet!  It is amazing how much junk fills these two rooms.  My dryer was piled down with stuff.  The laundry room took about an hour to clean.  I didn't think to take before pictures, but here are the after pictures!

This is the laundry room, it had so much clutter in it.  Looks so much better organized and cleaned out!

This is our front closet!  It had so many coats and sweatshirts in it.  I was able to go through them and put some away.  We don't each need 2-3 different coats/sweatshirts in here.  The kids had been throwing all kinds of stuff on the floor in here.  Our vacuum barely fit in here before I cleaned it out!

I'm trying to do the downstairs first and then I will tackle the upstairs!!  Wish me luck!