Thursday, September 02, 2010

We moved to New Jersey!!!!

Sean's company is opening a new office in New Jersey asked Sean to open and head it up. We came down in May to scout it out and see if it would be on our radar...we spent most the trip saying "I hate New Jersey, I hate New Jersey." This is mostly because of the divided highway where you couldn't make any left hand turns or get to where you want. You have to turn right to turn left. Also the people entering the rotary's have the right of way instead of the people already in the rotary...and because our gps had faulty software and never sent us to the right places. Other than that the scenery was beautiful and the people were really great.

We came back home to Boston and told the company we didn't want to move. Sean's company really wanted him to move and made an offer. We considered it and the offer combined with us finding housing cheaper than in Boston means that I don't have to work any more!!!!! So we accepted the offer and made the move.

The move went really smoothly. The kids loved staying in all the hotels as we got our house ready for the renters and made the move. On unloading day 15 people from church showed up to help and we unloaded everything in just over an hour. It was amazing.

The house we found to rent was a last minute Craigslist find that we saw on our way out of town on the house hunting trip. We were about to sign on a townhome, and I checked craigslist one more time. Our landlord's are our neighbors and have a huge garden that we get to take from whenever we'd like. They also have a Christmas tree farm and I'm hoping we'll get the family discount in December. :) We have an acre and a half and our other neighbor is going to plow up a section so I can have a garden. On top of all this it was less expensive then the town home. :)

Picking up some packing supplies












Riding the luggage train













Our nicely packed relocubes













3 of the 4 cubes holding all our posessions












kids being as helpful as they can











Home Sweet Home

7 comments:

Michelle said...

Congrats on your big move! It sounds like it is going to be great for Sean's career and for you and the kids. Who would have thought you could live on an idyllic acre in New Jersey?

Jen said...

You survived!!!! I love the new blog. Enjoy your new adventure in New Jersey!!!

Cherisa said...

The house looks adorable! How nice to have room for the kids to run and the landlords next door. There are a certain type of people who like to live above or beside their landlords... And they're called responsible people who pay the rent! :)

We miss you guys but glad it ended up working out so well!

The new pic and layout is great!

Tamsen said...

Glad to hear things went well. Looks like a great place!

Melanie said...

Congrats! What a change! I am glad you get to stay home! I hope you like NJ! It's cool that Sean's company wanted him to head this new office! Good luck!

Unknown said...

Congrats on the move! You kids are so cute :) We love ABF - hope you had a good experience with them, too. Best of luck in settling in. You are the queen of finding good activities (free), back roads and good friends. Love from Atlanta!

Jeni said...

We LOVE ABF. This is the 3rd time we've used them. We miss everyone in Atlanta...Sean is going down in October...I'm still rying to figure out if I can go too.