the BAYLOR BARRETTS: pack it up

In the words of House of Pain, "Pack it up pack it in, let me begin..."

{don't worry if you don't get it, you probably didn't grow up in the 90's}

Yep, we packed up and moved out of Houston last week. Moving was much more time consuming than we estimated. Tate and I spent 2 weeks prior to moving day packing our ~~junk~~ treasures. Due to this, we frequented Red Box more in these 2 weeks than we had in the entire 2 years we lived in Houston.

fragile, handle with prayer

Our cousin Hunter conveniently came to visit {aka move furniture} a few days before the move. We made sure to take a few needed breaks from packing for the important things in life-- Sprinkles, Astros and Texadelphia cheesesteaks. I could have done without the Astros, but Hunter is a baseball fan, and we don't have money so we had to bribe him somehow.

2 of the 100 'stros fans at the game

we heart sprinkles cupcakes

After all the bubble wrapping and box stacking, moving day was finally upon us. Months ago we thought neither one of our parents would be available to help us move. My parents were in Scotland while Tate's were in New York. I told Tate, "I know we are adults and all, but we really need some parents here to help." I feared we weren't efficient enough to carefully pack dishes or strategically load a UHaul. And I was right. We broke a plate and almost had to rent an additional trailer. We are just not that "grown up"...yet. Luckily for us, Robby and LaVon came back from NYC a few days earlier than we originally thought and came to our rescue.

get back to work

Considering all of our belongings fit in a 750 square ft. apartment, we figured it could only take a couple of hours to move, right? Wrong. First of all, our belongings don't fit in 750 square ft. of space, they are crammed, piled, squished. Things in every crevasse. And just when you start feeling accomplished because you think you have it all packed, you find another cabinet full of spices or long lost Christmas decor under the couch {thank you Wrigley for that find}. It took us 5 hours to get everything loaded.

is the UHaul too small or do we have too much stuff?

After loading the 17-ft. UHaul and 4 vehicles to the brim, were ready to head on out of town. This is when Robby decided to take one last look around and found a cabinet full of pots and pans, a steamer, some Advil, an air freshener, and a food processor. What? How did we miss that? We live in a shoe box and had half a month to pack the place. Ah well.

good friends seeing us off

Tate and I packed the last of our belongings in the only box we had leftover and took one last look around. We had a lot of family firsts in B306- first family dinner {it was undercooked and I cried}, first anniversary, first Barrett Christmas tree lighting {Charlie Brown style}, first Texas waffle dinner on Texas Independence Day, first paycheck, first small group, first puppy! All in all, it was the perfect little place to start our little family. We are excited about this new chapter back in Waco, but will always think on Houston with love and admiration.

In other news:

Wrigley is still very cute or "oozing precious" as one stranger put it