Hello dear readers!  I hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend.  We spent most of ours moving all of our worldly possessions to our new home in Phoenix.  The past week has been determinedly focused on shoving our stuff into boxes, cleaning our condo, transferring said boxes into rental truck (thanks, Vegas friends!!!), driving to PHX, unloading said boxes into our garage, and playing a never-ending game of “Where’s the ____?”  (Fill in the blank with whatever item is currently needed.)  While we are sad to lose our outdoor playground of Red Rock Canyon and our outdoor playmates, we are excited about our new house (a house!  We are officially adults now!) and proximity to new and different outdoor playgrounds.  We are also excited by the 6 minute walk to Safeway, the bagel shop, and a bike shop (well, in all honesty, you-know-who is excited about that, but I am curious as well).

In the meantime, I am preoccupied with unpacking our boxes (and boxes and boxes) of STUFF.  Why does my SAT need 14 empty mason jars?  And 3957 pairs of socks?  How did I manage to accumulate 9572 bottles and containers of hair and beauty products?  I only wear makeup when I play a recital!  (And by “makeup,” I mean eyeliner and lipstick.  Anything more than that would reveal my total ineptitude at applying cosmetics.)

Here are a few photo highlights from the past week:

(Left: the last time I carried my bike down from my 2nd floor condo.  Right: our rental truck with car carrier and car.)

The “adventure” part of this post pertains to the piano.  As in, moving the piano down from my condo on the 2nd floor into the rental truck.  I hired professional piano movers to do that job and watching them in action was a bit nerve-wracking.  The entire process took less than 4 minutes.  Click here to watch the entire hair-raising video!

(Left: my piano all locked down and loaded onto the dolly, ready to go.  Right: Almost on the ground….)

And finally, here is a snapshot of the kitchen area:

In summary, I am dealing with a house that has thrown up on itself.