Moving with Kelly

I was organizing my 2012 photos getting ready to work on my new year's resolutions and to start my 2013 photo files when I came across photos of the weeks days it took to move Kelly into her new apartment.  Not wanting those pics to go to waste I'm posting them now and wondering....did I post these some time ago?

This wasn't my first rodeo when it came to moving Kelly, but this time she was determined to go through her own things and eliminate because she was moving from a two bedroom into a one bedroom.I have to say that she did a good job.  I was proud of her.  She got rid of a ton of paper and a ton of items like furniture and knick knacks that she hadn't looked at or used in years months.  We made two piles; one for donating and one for trash.  The trash pile filled up all of the cans outside her apartment and the donation pile we had to move and stack up outside for pick-up.  It took up so much room we were worried the other tenants wouldn't be able to pass by into the laundry room.

To haul her crap from one place to the other Kelly rented a truck.  This truck had a hydraulic lift that got a lot of  use.  The first place we had to drive to was the store where Kelly bought a new couch to replace the one she donated.  Delivery was $80 so we decided we would pick up and deliver ourselves.  Kelly had way too much fun driving the truck, but then she has always had a fascination about trucks and truck drivers that she feels started back in the day when her mother would threaten to stop the car and spank Kelly and her siblings for misbehaving "in front of all these truck drivers".

 

 

My job the day of moving was painting Kelly's new kitchen.  I have always thought Kelly's living places to be lacking color and warmth so I convinced her (or she did it to shut me up) that painting would add something to this new abode.  She said she had always wanted a yellow kitchen so we chose two colors, narrowed it down, and I enlisted the help of Darcy and Savanna and we went to town painting the kitchen.  We got one coat done on moving day and then I painted the second coat a couple of days later.

A week later there was still much to be done like un-boxing items and putting them away, but the worker bees that I were dealing with felt they had more important things to do.

I gave up and left the rest up to Kelly.  She cleaned her old apartment and last time I was over she had almost finished the new apartment.  Our goal for the new apartment is to visit her more often for food and games, and now that the holidays and finals for the girls are over we will have to get to work on this goal.  Madison and I want to paint her hallway area to match her bathroom shower curtain too and the porch area needs some type of paint work as well so more pictures are sure to follow.