Done: #7. Move to Texas

It's official, we have moved to Texas! I am writing this blog post from our rental house in Plano, TX (A northern suburb of Dallas). Last night, as Chris and I lounged by the pool watching Arty swim we marveled at the fact that we were here, in Texas, living the dream.

We set a goal for ourselves: move to Texas this year. And here we sit, having completed that goal and so proud of ourselves for doing so!

So here are some pictures of our journey down south:

It all started with one box

And then it magically turned into 200 boxes. Or I slaved away at packing 200 boxes (with some help of course . . .)

Seriously, do we really have that much stuff !?!?!? Yes, yes we do. I can't help it, I like my stuff. (it is important to note that this is after we purged a giant dumpster full of stuff last summer . . . what can we say, we will never be minimalists)

Then the lovely orange truck came and picked up our stuff:

Yeah, we decided to get movers. Why? Well have you ever seen our bed? It weighs thousands of pounds, and that is just the mattress! Plus, who wants to drive a giant truck filled with 7,400 pounds (yup, that was our final count) of Larson stuff 1000 miles? Not us.

So we just drove our car, and D'artagnan

(Note: Arty and Chris's car had already made the trip in January when Chris started working)

The drive, even minus the stuff, was not easy. Mostly because we drove through this

and even better, this

Yeah, see that blue dot? It was us. See the red "line" of horrible rain? That was our path. Not fun, not fun at all! But we made it safe and sound, and two days later, so did our stuff

So there you have it, our moving journey in pictures. And my first item to officially cross off the list!