Extreme Makeover Home Edition

If you follow the blog regularly, you read my post a few weeks back about learning to be appreciative for the things that we have right now. Sometimes its hard - with our glued together bed, college-era futon, eating all our meals on tv trays, etc. I feel like perhaps as a reward for being good and learning to be appreciative, God gave us a little miracle.

When we went to our super bowl party, a family friend of the Careys, the Walkers were there. They are from Britain and have been working here the last few years, but it is time for them to go home. Since all of their good things are waiting for them in Britain, that means that they needed someone to take all of their US belongings. They asked if we were interested, and we said YES!

So, last week I drove out to Ashburn to "claim" what we wanted. I laughed with Sue that her house looked like they were dying, everything had sticky notes on it to claim it for different families. Luckily, they had a lot of offer, unfortunately, we don't have alot of room right now. So, Caleb and I had to search out a small, affordable storage unit. AND, yesterday we rented a uhaul for the day and went to collect our goods!

First, lets start by saying that we went to the SHADIEST Uhaul rental ever! There were lots of men on the streets offering to help us move and the uhaul had a sign saying that it STRONGLY recommended not using the day laborers for our own personal safety. Caleb drove the truck and it was making AWFUL noises. The banging, clanging noise that sounded like the roof was being ripped off by a tree limb. We couldn't figure out where it was coming from?! I even stood up in the window at the toll booth to look but everything looked normal. Bizarre, BUT it was really windy yesterday so we are hoping that was all it was.

When we got to the Walkers they had invited a few friends over to help us load the truck, which was good because they lived in a 3 story townhome with a super narrow staircase. The best part was the Peter (Mr. Walker) was a super great organizer and kept making funny comments like "We didn't rule 1/3 of the world by not knowing how to move a sofa" or referring to the sofa "lounge" and the moving truck as a "carriage" and telling us to "rock n roll." Hilarious.

The only bummer was that after we left them, we were on our own to move out loot. You are probably thinking, how much stuff could they possibly have taken? Let's see: 2 queen bed frames, 2 queen mattresses and box springs, 2 dressers, 2 end tables, 1 coffee table, 3 lamps (with shades), 1 dining room table, 4 dining room chairs, 1 large rug, 1 baker's rack, 1 couch, and 1 loveseat!!!!!!

Crazy, right? Too bad we live in a 1 bedroom apartment right now :) BUT, we went ahead and put the couch and love seat in the apartment for now and moved the futon out to the storage unit. Whenever we choose to move, hopefully we can upgrade in apartment size and add some of our new furniture! Here are the pics of our new couches!!!

Don't they look great!!! Scarlett loves them already and all of the new pillows to lounge on. Plus, since she's orange, it doesn't look so bad when she sheds.

Caleb and I are LOVING living in DC where they actually celebrate President's Day - as Caleb says - one of the benefits of going to a school named after a President. Check back tomorrow for updates on our patriotic adventures to the Newseum, Ford's Theater, the Capitol & Library of Congress!