Thursday, October 16, 2008

Trailer moving begins

October 16, 2008-The official moving day for our old trailer. What an experience; I arrived at the trailer at 9am today. The addition was on the flat deck trailer and last minute preparations were being made so it could be moved to it's new location. Next came the trailer moving...who knew it was such a lengthy process. The movers arrived at 7:30 this morning and began by attaching the hitch to the front of the trailer and several hours later at 11:30am the trailer was on the road. These pictures are just a few of the highlights of the morning. Our neighbors have all had their blinds open watching the happenings in our yard for the past couple of days but today was the big one.

Moving the addition was a lot harder than originally expected. The people who bought the trailer were responsible for moving the addition. They ended up having to remove the brick work from the front of the addition to help lessen the weight.








The hitch is on and even though from this angle it looks ready to go they had barely started...













Here they attached a small crane and lifted the front of the trailer up so that the wheels could be placed underneath. They raised and lowered and blocked and raised and lowered and blocked until the wheels were in the right place. It took them about 2 hours for this step.








Finally hitched up and ready to go













And there goes the trailer, on it's way to a farm by Success, Sk (near Swift Current)












In the meantime we have been blessed with a small but cozy fourplex. We have about 1/3 of our things here and the rest is in storage. We hope that our new trailer will be here by the end of October but I guess we'll wait and see. For now our prayer is that the snow stays away long enough for our trailer to come and our skirting to be put on and after that we will welcome the snow and winter weather.

Marcus has been enjoying the outdoors more now that he can walk. He spent part of the morning playing with our neighbor's slide and swing set. I helped him go down the slide once and he had that figured out. He'd ask me to put him on the top and he'd scoot to the edge of the slide and push himself the rest of the way. What fun.












Monday, October 06, 2008

October News

Marc likes to sit on his rocking horse but sometimes he gets on backwards. He thinks it's pretty fun.


















Marc's First Haircut on September 2, 2008. He looks like such a little man now.


















Sitting outside on a beautiful fall day.















We were watching the bobcat and dump truck working on the empty lot beside our house. Marc thought this was fascinating and just sat there pointing.



We are officially starting to pack for phase one of our move. We are going to be staying in a fourplex for the interim between trailers. We aren't sure how long that will be but we are thankful that we can carry on with life and work etc. Once things start happening I'll post pictures of the trailers moving in and out etc. Should be interesting to watch! Hope everyone is enjoying the nice fall weather. I know we are thankful that it hasn't snowed yet!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Love Ian, Jenn and Marcus