moving day

the big day. moving day. what a day it was!

it wouldn’t have been too awful of a day except for one small detail that proved to be a rather large detail & also us changing our minds on some things last minute. oui!

“uh oh” moment #1

two days before we moved we started calculating the overall cost of storing all of our stuff in yet another storage unit while we live in colorado (for the last two years we have been renting a 12×12 unit in draper). when you start looking at the overall cost of $5,000 you start rethinking some things. first thought was “is our stuff going in the unit even worth $5,000 dollars?” & the second thought was “do we really need everything in that unit? will we really use it in four years or want it?”

final decision? yes! we do need the stuff in the unit & some of it is priceless (photo’s, keepsakes, etc.) or not replaceable but “da da da dun” we found out the in-laws have room here at the house where we could store a lot of stuff and that broc’s family has a set of units in utah that we could also store stuff in. i wasn’t too keen on the idea of having our stuff stored multiple places – let alone two different states – but i also wasn’t keen on the idea of forking out around $5,000 to store it all the next four years. i mean, that amount could pay for a few cruises over the next few years (or go into savings?!?) that is not small change we’re talking about.

so we began the process of re sorting everything into three categories:

1. staying with us
2. basement storage at the house
3. staying in a storage unit in utah

between thursday and saturday morning we got A LOT done and were feeling pretty good about what needed to get done on saturday. yes, we had a late night or two, but overall it was not too bad & we felt good to go. we thought saturday would go by seamlessly.

saturday morning arrived and my dad came over in the morning to help take out some couches  and move around some bins and boxes & while he did that my mom helped me box up our food & kitchen stuff while my sister watched the little man. the morning was going perfectly.

no joke, i sent broc off to deliver the couches to the DI and thought, it’s all in the bag. it’s smooth sailing from here. the couches are gone, the load going to the storage unit was taken on friday, the ginormous tv and kitchen table we donated to broc’s sister getting married was delivered friday as well…we are set. all we have to do is load up the u haul and clean the rooms.

ha ha!

uh oh moment #2:

text conversation around 10:00 am saturday morning between broc and myself:

cambria: at storage?
broc: yeah about done
cambria: oh good. how’s the u haul looking?
broc: it’s full
cambria: ha ha. no really how much room is left?
broc: it’s full
cambria: WHAT?!?!?! how is it full?
broc: i don’t know but it’s full. 
cambria: there is no way it’s full. i got the largest on they had? how is it full?
broc: be home soon

at this point i’m not too worried because my husband tends to look see 75% full as 100% full. so i figure it’s getting full but not 100% full!

so broc gets home and i go out to see for myself. sure enough our u haul is full! not only is it full, but it’s tiny!!!

in my mind i thought we were getting and had reserved something like this, but one that was towed rather than a self driving truck:

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in reality i had actually reserved on of these:

just a tiny difference, wouldn’t you say? i was dying. i couldn’t believe how small it was & broc was right it was completely full.

now this wouldn’t be a problem except we still had everything at the house to get to colorado and by everything i mean over 60 totes, plus some boxes, plus furniture, plus all the odds and ends that don’t fit in boxes or totes. we still had a lot of stuff to move!

this is where i had a major freak out session. i couldn’t even think straight for about 20 minutes. i just kept thinking, “why did i just assume we knew what we were getting. why didn’t i look at a dang picture!!! a 6×12 trailer is tiny!!! it was no where near what i thought we were getting.” it didn’t help that broc’s only reply was, “it is what it is!”. i wanted to seriously harm him and tell him to save his budha sayings for later. of course, now i laugh because he was totally right. no use freaking out when what’s done is done. lesson learned: always know exactly what you are getting. second lesson learned: never assume anything or think you already know the details. third lesson learned: remain calm, it is what it is. just accept it and go from there.

when you really think about it, 6×12 is tiny. we should have known it was small, but i had that picture in my head of the much larger ones and since i had ordered the largest one that can be towed, i just figured the image in my head was correct. i so so so figured wrong!

after the freak out session, panic mode set in, and i was about ready to put everything we own on the street with a sign saying “FREE!”. i couldn’t bear having to sort anything again or repack everything. suddenly i just wanted to not have any stuff. i wanted to just hop in the car drive off.

of course then panic mode subsided and i came to my senses trying to figure out a solution.  what we ended up having to do was leave a third of our stuff behind at my mom’s house in a spare room. i thought we would have to leave more but we were actually able to fit quite a bit in our cars & an open trailer broc’s dad had that was coming back to colorado.

yep, this is why we are only partially moved. i’ll be back in utah almost a week early for the a wedding in august so i can sort through what was left behind and figure out a way to get it here to colorado. oui! why did i not double check that my assumption was right.

although, once we had a solution and with the help of my mom and sister we were able to get everything done relatively quick and even finished in time for me to go to a “moving out shower” being held for broc’s cousin saturday night. so besides the hour or so of absolute melt down – we survived and it wasn’t too horrible of a day.

it was a crazy day though and i was so glad when it was over and sunday morning we were in our cars driving away. of course i was sad to be driving away from utah and from family, but i was so relieved that the worst of the moving was over. finished. done. my mind just does not do well when it comes to moving. i’m the type of person that would rather find some place i love and then stay there for 50 years.

now for the pictures: