We're definitely learning that Heavenly Father's time is perfect and that we must have complete faith in his plan for us. During the whole process of putting in an offer on the building, we had a lawyer who did nothing but cause problems. Our intention was to be out of our old office by February 1st but the lawyer worked as hard as he could to push it out as far as possible. We were getting worried as we told our landlord that we would be out by the end of February.
On February 9th we signed and after meeting with the lawyer and the seller one last time, he signed on February 12th. It was cutting it close as my parents and brother's were coming up to help us move that weekend.
We spent Friday over at the new office working on the shower (there was no hot water) and cleaning a bit. Apparently the valve that came with the shower blocked all hot water which would make for an awful cold shower for any guest that came up. We ended up running to home depot and buying a whole new fixture to get the thing working since they no longer carry that specific valve assembly.
The next day we went over to the new office and started getting things vacuumed and ready for things to be moved in. My family arrived and helped us continue cleaning and setting up. Our first few trips to the old office were to pick up largest furniture along with any little things we could stuff amongst them in my parents jeep and our trailer. I was so grateful to my brother's who stayed at the new office with Luke so that we had extra space to carry things back and forth.
After the first night, Kaylee flopped down on the floor.
Poor girl was exhausted from running all over all day long.
The long hallway. No wonder why the kids slept so well.
*SQUISH* hugs.
After we started moving things in, we realized we had a dilemma. The outlet that we were going to use for the servers was not one, but two 20 amp breakers. All of the other outlets in the room were tied to my office and the one in the kitchen. If I were to turn the burner on to make candles, I would easily pop the breaker so we had to rethink our plans and move Alex to another room.
Kaylee was playing in Daddy's new office.
Nothing is better than running back and
forth with boxes when you're a little kid.
My mom helped me set up this set of candles.
I had to wait till Monday when I went to work to
pick up another pack of drywall anchors to hang up
my melts board. I think it turned out pretty good.
My family left on Monday shortly after I got back from work. Thanks to them, we had 99% of our stuff out of the old office and into the new. On Tuesday we ran back over to the old office with a few boxes, loaded up the remaining stuff, vacuumed, and locked up. It felt SOOOOOO good to be out of there.
The Classroom
We got the projector hanging up.
The Meeting Room
People can rent out this space for meetings.
The Front Desk
This is our front counter where we intake and send out computers.
We've added a little more to it since this picture was taken.
The Waiting Area
Grab a chair and take a seat while we look over the computer...
The Sales Room
Space for vendors to rent out and sell crafts.
Our most recent venture is getting signage up. I've spent the last two days working on putting together my banners (between the green & blue flag). Alex helped me put them up today!!!
The flags in themselves have caught a lot of new attention already. We are having our grand re-opening ribbon cutting this coming Saturday.
Luke has been begging me to put names on the doors to their playrooms. I finally did it today.
Kaylee's girly font and a flower.
Luke's handwriting turned into big bold
print along with a grasshopper I designed.
Well its been a long day and tomorrow won't be any different so until then, I'm off to bed. I will keep everyone posted on the ribbon cutting!!!
