Moving Day!
This morning I headed back over to the barn to feed the horses. I am also taking care of Leanna's rabbit and . . . .
and their kitty!
I didn't get a picture of Brandy the other day so here she is . . I didn't want her to feel left out!
After everyone wokeup I decided today was a good day to move the bedrooms around. Now, that Jordan is gone for the next 4 years we decided we better give his room to the boys. Jordan has the only bedroom downstairs . . . We had to move Jordan's old queen size bed up to the boys room and the boys twin beds down to Jordan's old room. This is what we were doing all day today . . .moving things upstairs and moving things downstairs.
When we had Jordan's room emptied Carlos and I just stared at it. Carlos then said, "Wow, we are in a new phase of life . . it's strange to have Jordan gone." I agreed with him . . .it felt strange moving things out of his room. I am so use to having him around . . . 19 years is a long time but I know he is where God wants him to be. We miss you Jordan . .
Jordan . . these pictures are for you . . I know you will want to see how we changed things aroudn .This picture was taken in what once was the boys room. It now hold's your bed and the furniture from the girls room. This is now Alexia's room.
She is so excited. She worked all day getting things moved out of her room. She is loving the huge walk in closet.
We also brought your old bookshelf up so to her room too.
Sierra noticed that Alexia had a BIG bed now. She asked us if we could put her two twin beds together to make one big bed. We agreed and she is so happy. 
We then moved the boys furniture into Sierra's room.
We then moved the boys twin beds down to your old room. Landon and Taylor will now take over this room. I washed all the linens today so that is why Taylor's comforter is missing . .. it is in the dryer as I type.
We left your old dresser for them to use . . I am going to have to purchase one more dresser because there isn't enough room in that one dresser for the two of them. We moved their TV down and all of Landon's toys.
and Taylor's stereo.
Lisa called me around 6:00 and asked what I had been doing all day. I told what we did and how exhausted we were and that we were probably going to go to Chili's for dinner. Well, two hours later . . .we were still home and still working on putting everything away. She was going to come over to help me so I called her to tell her I was too tired to do anything else and that we didn't end up going to Chili's. She asked what we were going to do for dinner and I said I would just make grilled cheese. She said, "Don't make anything . . I am coming over with dinner." And she did . . . I couldn't believe it . . she even had a migraine. Thanks Lisa for feeding us. You don't know how nice that was . . . I feel bad that you cooked us dinner and you didn't feel good . .you must really love us :-) Thanks again!I thought Landon might be excited to be sleeping in his "new" room tonight but when I went to check on the kids tonight this is what I found . . .
Time to do some reading! Good night!
8 comments:
It is SO much work to move rooms around like that! I can't believe you got it all done in one day. I would still be at it (LOL)! My mom decided she wanted new bedroom furniture, but she could find the light colored wood like we have. So, she offered to buy us a new bedroom set and she's going to take our set. Our set no longer fits in our room since we remodeled a few years ago and lost the better part of 2 walls. So, now the set will be back together at her house. My new set will be delivered in a couple of weeks. It fits the jungle them of our bedroom better than our set did. I'm going to miss that set though. It was the first furniture that we purchased after we were married.
Wow! your house it is very nice, and it is really nicewhen kids heling their parents to do things around house...
Man thats crazy. I miss home alot its crazy and weird to see my room empty and my bed in a different room. Well thanks for the pics mom I love you guys and miss you alot!! love you and see you in a couple weeks so you can see my new house and room.
Emily,
It must be so hard to adjust to having one of your children gone, but it is a sign that you have been successful parents, so it's good, too!
I hope you won't feel too sad.
Cindy - actually I can't believe we did finish almost everything in one day. Now, I still have a lot of going through and organizing in their rooms . . except for Alexia's she went through everything and got rid of two huge bag of things. I need to spend a good half day in each of the other rooms really weeding out things.
How exciting about the new bedroom set. We also in the 20 years we hae been married never had bedroom furniture . . .we have a bed, bookshelves and hand me down dresser and night stands. Someday we will have a nice bedroom set but it is way down on our list of things to get :-)
Liza - the kids helped us a lot that day. We couldn't of done it without them!
Jordan - we felt weird moving your stuff out too. It just seemed strange to be doing this but like dad said it is a new phase of life. You have grown into such a wonderful young man. We are so proud of you!
Dorothy - there is a strange feeling in my stomach knowing that Jordan is gone for 4 years. Yes, we will still see him throughout the year but it does bring such a wide range of emotions. You are happy, sad, proud, nervous, exicted, apprehensive . . .I think as parents we have gone through them all LOL :-)
Boy, I am NOT ready for that new stage of parenting. You and Carlos are doing such a lovely job with your children.
I remember when I left for college, before I was hardly out the door my brother had my room claimed for himself and redecorated. I spent summers in the basement. ha!
Emily, praying for you as you and Carlos enter this new phase. It IS full of a wide range of emotions. It IS a joy to see them following God's path for their lives wholeheartedly...but there is something missing when they are gone.
We were moving from AK to TX when the girls left for Master's Commission....our new home doesn't have a room for them. I really struggle with that...but they ARE rarely home with their full schedules. I simply didn't want to admit that they didn't need a room at home. UGH.
I'm impressed at all your got done in ONE day! Wow.
I missed what Jordan is doing. Can you clue me in? Is it a ministry school?
Kathy -believe me . . it felt so strange to be taking things out of Jordan's room. It just didn't feel right at first but then reality sets in and you realize he is gone for 4 years. Yes, he will be coming home for visits but we do have an extra bed for him. We will let him have Landon's bed and then move Landon up to Sierra' room to the extra twin bed when he comes home for visits!
De'Etta, Jordan is attending the Forerunner Music Academy. It is a four year school. This school is different that most . .it is structured differently . . .he has 20 hours of class each week and on top of that he has 24 hours a week THAT HE HAS TO be in the house of prayer. He will be majoring in Music Theory . . .but it will encompass leading music, writing an arranging . . .etc . .plus many Bible courses.
What is the "House of Prayer"? The House of Prayer opened 8 years ago . .. since that day it has had 24 hour prayer, praise and worship . . . it hasn't stopped once. Because they require their students in the Academies to do 24 hours a week in the prayer room . . this will not allow Jordan to work.
They have different praise and worship teams that take shifts in the prayer room. He tried out to play in one of the groups and made it. He plays the keyboard and also does vocals.
I will email you the website. . They have a live feed from the prayer room there. You might even see Jordan some day.
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