A Few of My Favorite Things
5/29/2011 - Posted by Nicole - 0 comments
We've been in Dallas for almost two weeks (crazy how time flies) and we're getting pretty well settled in. More on that soon- with photos. But for now just a little list of a few of the things that make me happy to be in Dallas:


1. The Lake House- thanks D&P
2. Listening to Kidd Kraddick in the Morning on KISS FM - I've listened to him since I was in middle school and he still cracks me up!
3. The beautiful sunsets at White Rock Lake
4. Getting to have lunch with my mom on a random Friday afternoon
5. Fun local restaurants like Jack's Backyard
6. Help unpacking from my mom-in-law
7. Taking a hot shower and not worrying about the water temperature decreasing in 5 minutes - this happened ALL THE TIME at our Colorado house
8. A sweet Bikram Hot Yoga studio just down the street
9. The little dog park at our apartment so that Pep can run around with new puppy friends
10. Free WiFi- from our apartment complex


There are other benefits of being here too, like the general awesomeness of being near most of our family and many of our life long friends, but this is just a short list. 


I heart Texas :)


Moving Update
5/11/2011 - Posted by Nicole - 0 comments
It's been a bit since I've posted, but it's not due to laziness... I swear. We have been busy little bees here in the Horn household. For the past few weeks, we've been traveling, packing, finding a place to live and generally doing anything and everything moving related. Here are a few pics of the progress so far:


After we packed away her kennel, Pepper kept laying in the spot where it used to sit. You can see the grooves in the carpet below her. I think she was a little bit sad.

This is what my bed looked like while I sorted through all of my clothes. Yikes!
I had segmented the bed into four quadrants- 2 were for things to keep, one was for donations, and one for consignment. It was very "Clean Sweep"-esque. Does anyone still watch that show?
Michael was a little sad at the whole process... Let's be honest we all were (including Pep), but we're also really excited about getting settled in our new digs. 

Since this is our sixth move in less than six years (Yikes again), we decided to hire professional movers. We moved ourselves when we came to Colorado, and although it worked out fine, it was really challenging. This way, we ensure that our things will be well handled and hopefully will cut down on nicks and scratches that we incurred last time. We will still carry a small U-haul with us that will hold our outdoor gear like bikes and climbing equipment and skis as well as few high price items like our clothes and jewelry. 

Yesterday we drove through some horrendous weather to pick up the U-haul in Golden, which is a suburb of Denver. It had been beautiful here ever since we got back from St. Lucia (a new blog on that soon), but of course the day we started the major moving, a HUGE storm came through and dumped snow! This is what our drive in to Golden looked like:



CRAZY!!! I kept telling Michael that I feel like we live in Narnia... where it's always winter and never springtime! But after getting through all of that, we were able to pick up our sweet little U-Haul! Yay! Michael was able to pack in it under an hour, which was awesome! Way to go, babe. 



Here's the rest of our hoard of boxes, ready to be packed up. We staged everything in the garage for the movers. They just had to deal with the furniture and packing the kitchen. 



As we speak our awesome team of packers is loading everything up, and should be on the road again by 3 or 4. They are fantastic and from Houston. Needless to say, the wintery drive  in was a bit of a shock to them and they are hoping not to have to chain up on the way out. Here's a picture of Doc wrapping up the couch. AMAZING!!


Dallas here we come!