The past week has been crazy and I know there has been a very long gap in posts. We moved! Last Monday and Tuesday the packers came and packed all our stuff up. I took the picture below on the last day we had our stuff. I don't have many pictures of Eli right now because he's generally crying all the time. He's been really fussy. Both the boys went to various people's houses last week (Aiden was at Michel's all week) so we could pack and move. They took all our stuff on Wednesday and we cleaned all day Thursday and left on Friday. We found out Thursday morning at Eli's 9 mont well baby appointment that he had a severe ear infection which probably explains why he's been so grumpy.
We had dinner with our neighbor Sue last week which was fun. On Thursday, Arin and Alicia came over to help me clean (awesome friends)! By Friday morning, we still had more to do than we planned and we had our walk-through. Sue was an angel and occupied Aiden for about 1.5 hrs so Brad and I could clean. Eli took a nap. She was a giant life saver.
Aiden and Sue rode around in the golf cart for part of the morning and then he discovered her tractor for the first time. The played catch and watched/chased the ducks, and fed the fish.
Aiden is REALLY missing Sue and visiting her all the time. It took Brad a long time to check out of the squadron because everyone went to lunch right as he arrived. We didn't get on the road until about 1:00pm and both boys were exhausted. Eli fell asleep immediately and Aiden struggled for a while. He eventually fell asleep listening to Thomas and eating. He drooled all over himself from falling asleep with food in his mouth.
We stopped for dinner at Burger King since they had a play area. Aiden didn't really feel like eating or playing all that much. He wanted to play with the door to play area more than anything else. Eli was hungry as usual. That kid loves to eat and I'm waiting until Eli challenges Brad to an eating contest and Brad looses. haha. 
We finally made it to Jax safely on Saturday. We made do with what we had we've been managing. We were trying to keep the boys on their normal schedule but we had lots to get done when we got down here. We forgot we had to get the water turned on so we called an emergency number and said we needed the water turned on and someone came out on Saturday night to do it! Our house was a complete mess when we got inside. The fridge had mold and food in the bottom. Our property manager did a horrible job (we won't be recommending him) doing a walk-through. He admitted he didn't even open the fridge. The bathrooms were horrible and we were scared to use them until we cleaned them. There was hair everywhere! We did nothing but clean the first 2 days at the house. The boys went to bed at 7/7:30 and we cleaned until about 11pm both nights.
Aiden played in the tunnel for a little bit but I think he was so overtired that he didn't really want to play.
Since we got such a late start we wanted to drive a bit further although didn't want to press our luck since nap time in the car was a mild success. They both slept about half of their normal nap time. We kept driving after dinner and by about 8:00 neither one were showing signs of sleeping so we pulled over in North Carolina (exit 49).
We got the boys in their PJs and Aiden slept on one of the beds and we put blankets around him so he wouldn't roll off and we set up the pack-and-play for Eli. The both went to sleep pretty good although Aiden woke up a few times in the night crying which was really weird. I think he was just a little freaked out by how he was sleeping in a big bed and stuff.
We finally made it to Jax safely on Saturday. We made do with what we had we've been managing. We were trying to keep the boys on their normal schedule but we had lots to get done when we got down here. We forgot we had to get the water turned on so we called an emergency number and said we needed the water turned on and someone came out on Saturday night to do it! Our house was a complete mess when we got inside. The fridge had mold and food in the bottom. Our property manager did a horrible job (we won't be recommending him) doing a walk-through. He admitted he didn't even open the fridge. The bathrooms were horrible and we were scared to use them until we cleaned them. There was hair everywhere! We did nothing but clean the first 2 days at the house. The boys went to bed at 7/7:30 and we cleaned until about 11pm both nights. 
We let Aiden pick his room out. There is a blue/grey room and a pink room. He chose the pink room! He LOVES the closets in the his and plays hide and seek in them. We've already painted the pink room. Aiden chose blue but then we found out the race car bed he was getting is blue so we took blue away. He then chose green. A bright green. I need to download more pictures from my camera. Brad and I painted his room on Monday, got new carpet Tuesday, and the movers came yesterday. I need to find the battery pack to the camera before it completely dies and I can't take or download pictures.
Our new carpet looks and feels awesome. Aiden room is super bright and neat. We all got to sleep in beds last night which was really awesome.Eli is perfecting his army crawl. He'll crawl anywhere to chase food or a food container. He's getting pretty fast and I saw him get up all on all 4's today for the first time.
The movers came yesterday and it was ... interesting. They only had 3 guys to unload and unpack our stuff which took 4 guys to load in a day and 3 people an entire day to pack up. I could easily see that they couldn't unload and unpack everything. I told them they were unpacking too and the head guy said he didn't hear that. I was so angry because I must have told 4 different people from the moving company they were unpacking too. They weren't excited to hear that I wanted them to put the furniture back together and unpack the stuff. Needless to say, I was very angry and ... they unpacked some stuff and are sending more unpacking people tomorrow. I had to take Aiden to the dr yesterday morning to check for an ear infection (he doesn't have one - just lots of pressure from a really runny nose) and Brad took the boys to our friends house so they could at least get some sleep.
Our house is a complete disaster right now but I'm excited we are back in OUR house. We miss our MD friends dearly but our neighborhood has completely changed and there are tons of kids on the block so that should be good. I'll post more pictures of our house after I find the camera battery charger!
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