Our Move to Grafton

For those who do not know this already, we are now living in Grafton and just love it here. Unfortunately things with our house and move did not go as planned and really turned into one huge nightmare, but family and friends were there to help us out.

Before we could even move into our new place it needed a serious scrub down because it was not left for us in move in condition! We had a huge dumpster in our driveway for a while until we got the previous owners property out, then we began the scrub down. Uncle John, cousin Vicky and her daughter, my brother Tony, sis in law Genell and the kids all came over to help Joe, me and Cody clean and paint so that we could move in. This was just the inside of the house, the outside needed much work as well, but we had to be out of our Milw. house so the inside and getting moved was the priority.

The move was not as smooth as we would have hoped, but thanks to Uncle Bob, cousin Ryan & his friends, Uncle Richard, Aunt Kelly, cousin Dan Rebro, Brian Lerch, and Tony & Christa, we did mangage to get everything into the basement of our house. Why the basement? Well, the carpet was not being put in until after the move so we had to leave the bedrooms and living room open for them to install it. Once the carpet got in we were able to move our things from the basement upstairs and I can't tell you how good it felt to sleep in our beds again.

My Aunt Kelly (my cousing Tyler) and her sister Kathy came by the Saturday after we moved and suprised us by volunteering to be our landscaping crew for the day! They worked soooo hard all day, it was unbelievable. We had weeds up to our knees everywhere plus a crazy tree that was growing where it shouldn't have been. They cleaned everything out, did flowers and made it all look great. We are so grateful to all of their hard work.

This whole experience was so stressful, but with everyone's help and generosity we managed to get settled in. We moved in August and just love it. Cody is in 8th grade and is going to John Long Middle School. He wasted no time making friends! He is able to ride his bike, skate board or walk to any one of his friends houses. He rides his bike to school everyday, his grades are great and we have not seen him this happy in a while. He has made some really incredible friends and it is hard to get him to stay home with us because he is always on the go with them. He's really gotten into skateboarding and tech decking. The boys get together to play football or basketball at one of the near by parks, or else they just hang out at somebody's house, but it always seems to be in groups. Sleepovers consist of a couple of friends and usually all weekend. I have to say that these teenage boys can really inhale some food though!! Joe and I really enjoy having the kids hang out over here though because they are all so nice and really a lot of fun. Joe will go out with them and play football once in a while too. I usually do the cooking and listen to the crazy stories they tell while downing mountain dews and inhaling the food. It is all worth it though. This is exactly what we had hoped for by moving here and nothing could be more perfect!