Moving In!!

Well, as most of you know we have just made a huge move from southern, beautiful Knoxville, Tennesssee to midwestern, flat Newton, Kansas. Packing up our small two-bedroom duplex was quite the first-time moving experience. To say the least, Chris and I are both MAJOR pack-rats so that made it interesting. We definitely had to exercise some self-control and get rid of some our "worthless treasures." 

We made the long trek from Tennessee to Kansas into a two day trip, stopping for the night near St. Louis. Ten hours later, after being in an hour and a half traffic jam, we finally arrived at our new home. Our friends, Adam and Tiffany, and Chris' mom, Ann helped us to empty the truck and at least get everything into the house and in some cases even got it into the right room!! 

After a good night's rest on our bed with no sheets (because I couldn't find the box), we got up early the next morning ready to get the moving done with. Again, Tiffany and Ann came over to help us get the majority of things done. Maybe I got ahead of myself and forgot to mention that our house has three bedrooms but one of them is upstairs and really what it is just a big open loft. It is the coolest thing!! My favorite feature of the upstairs is the skylight. So we made a unanimous decision that we wanted our bedroom to be upstairs. After three of us pushed our mattress up our narrow stairway, we realized that if it was this hard to get the mattress up the stairs, how impossible it would be to get the box springs upstairs especially since those are unbendable. Well, the logical thing to do at this point would be just to settle for less and make our bedroom in one of the rooms downstairs. But never fear my friends because the Stivers family will never settle for less! My husband's motto is "Where there is a will there is a way" and I guess that proves to be true because the next day I come back from being out with Tiffany, walk upstairs, and find my whole bed mind you- every bit of it put together and completely made!! Well the first thing that comes to my mind is the question, "how?" When I asked Christopher how he did it, he proceeded to tell me that one of our friends lent him a saws-all. He took me upstairs, lifted up the bedskirt and showed me the box springs. Yes, everyone you have guessed right, my husband cut our box springs in half, carried them upstairs, and then put the whole thing back together. As I stared at Chris while he was revealing all of this to me, inside my head I was thinking, "I have married my father." By the way, it's not that this was a bad idea, in fact it was a brilliant idea, it's the determination to do the impossible that continues to amaze me. Needless to say, our bed is as good as new and the bedroom is perfect. 

I am so thankful for my smart hubby and can't wait to see what his next challenge will be!!