Our Moving IN Experience

                                                              

So after we had two days of apartment searching we settled in on an apartment at Legacy at Mayland. It is very nice. We were very excited to find the apartment and get our furniture quickly moved in before we left for Hawaii... DUN DUN DUN the moving company fell through- like we could of never expected.

They told us while we were booking the move that they would store our stuff in Richmond, so that once we found our place we could call them and it would just take a few days notice to get our stuff to our new home. Well, Josh calls them and they inform him that it will be about 7 days. Which would still give us about 6 days to unpack before the trip...The whole time that this is happening all we have is two camping chairs and an air mattress, we went to the movies once just so we could sit in a chair with real support.

6 days pass and we call them again, "OOps" they said looks like your stuff didn't make it on the truck. Josh asks them What truck?? They inform him that not only did they not store our stuff near Richmond they stored it in CALIFORNIA of all the places??? Isn't that back tracking??!! Anyway they said they will try their best to get the stuff there before we leave.

NOPE we call them a few days later and are informed that they still haven't even moved it from California and we were leaving in 2 days.  So we have to ask a Sweet girl from our new ward to unlock our house, while were gone. We felt so bad asking someone else to do it. Thankfully they were really nice to her and they moved everything in quickly.

So now we fast-forward to us getting home from Hawaii, Our Airplane took off at 9pm on Saturday night and landed in VA at 5pm on Sunday- YES we were tired! This is what we came home to. YAY- One last unpack before we are done.

First thing we do set up the bed, we had not slept on our own  soft wonderful bed for over a month and a half! It took Josh only 7 min flat to set up the bed. Can you tell we have moved 7 times? that means we has setup/taken down that bed 14 times in the past 2 years!

We had some funny things happen while unpacking. While having some friends over for dinner, when all of the sudden we hear a huge CRASH!! Early that day I had gotten our entire closet unpacked I ran to the back room and this is what I had found!

The first thing I said was  "Ooo we need to take a picture!" Everyone in the other room laughed. It only took a day for the management to come in and fix it, thank goodness.

 

Another sad accident happened during the move, one of the few pieces of furniture that I brought that was really special was this little granite table, that was my mothers... We had VERY CAREFULLY Packed it up. We unwrapped it and found this-

 I couldn't help but tear up for a few seconds but then Josh reminded me that it was just a thing and that what is more important is my memory of my mom. He always knows how to cheer me up I smiled and said  "how can you break granite?"  We laughed because we both knew that our exerience with these movers was so annoying that we weren't surprised. It was just disappointing, why couldn't they have broken my cheap $30 mirror instead?

So after a couple of weeks here is the final product-

Living Room

"dining area"

Josh's study/ prison- No really he said he really likes his new desk and he can study there for hours at a time- and I mean HOURS!!!

THE EARTHQUAKE

You would think that after living in Utah my whole life I couldn't say "I have been in an earthquake" Until Yesterday! I was sitting in my living room looking for jobs online when all of the sudden I thought there is something wrong with the plumbing pipes? then the rumbling got louder and I started to feel  the whole house shake and the ceiling fan was swaying around.

I started to FREAK OUT! I first thought go to a doorway! And thought I wonder if it's just my house shaking I look outside people are running out of their homes and the branches on the trees were shaking. I then rode the rest of it out on my balcony which Josh told me later was probably the most dangerous place I could of been OOOPS!

After it stopped I immediately called Josh I couldn't get through to him at first he called me a little later and told me that he was fine. His version of the earthquake is even funnier. He was walking outside from one building on campus to another, while walking across a bridge he thought hmm this bridge is really shaken and her recalled later feeling a little nauseous. Josh been the logical man he is justified the shakiness on the bridge was due to all the cars driving across it. Me on the other hand jumping to the worst case scenario was like EARTHQUAKE!!! Usually Josh is correct when it comes to these things but for once my "over reactiveness" was right.

Turns out we were apart of the strongest Earthquake on the East coast since 1897.... It was a 5.9, which is strong enough to rattle you and do some minor damage. See how close Richmond is to mineral YAY us! About 50 miles away from the center.

 I read on KSL, a few piece fell of the DC temple :(  Anyway if you wanna read more about it here is the link. It was definitely a fun adventure- oh and there is a Hurricane warning this weekend. The Bradshaw curse is following us! http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-08-23/Rare-earthquake-shakes-and-shocks-Eastern-Seaboard/50114870/1