Our room mates moved out this weekend. It was a little sad - we've been together with Rick since last October and Kelly since March!! Sarah-Grace was sad we no longer have a baby in the house and Charlotte misses Beamer (the dog). Moving was an adventure - as everything is with the 4 of us. Here are a few highlights from this weekend and a few things I'll miss:
Highlights:
- Tad and Rick somehow taking 3-4 hours to show up where Kelly, myself and everyone else is working/unpacking, then expecting sympathy because "they've had a rough day".
- Tommy "rushing" Tad and Rick at Home Depot. I put rushing in quotation marks because after 2 hours I think Tommy had a point.
- Home Depot having a time warp that only seems to suck up Tad & Rick while shopping.
- Watching Elliott, Tad & Rick HOIST the glass and iron patio table on a rope from the back patio up to the main level deck.
- Rick asking Kelly every 15-20 minutes if she still likes the roman shades in the dining room.
- Tad and Rick can't pass by a pawn shop without going in. The pawn shop guy knowing that Tad & Rick are looking for guns without them saying a word.
- Rick's face when I told him I cracked the glass shelf in their dining room hutch (I really just chipped it).
- Rick trying to tell Elliott, Tad, me and Kelly that Conyers is the bomb on the way home - and Covington is old news. This is only funny because we heard for MONTHS every random fact about, celebrity originating from, movie and TV show ever filmed in Convington. Covington was actually beginning to rival California - which if you know ANYTHING, California is pretty much the perfect place on earth.
- Rick not knowing his way around Conyers.
- Rick asking everyone every 15-20 minutes if they liked the fried chicken at the train depot.
- Rick telling us he wanted to mow the lawn before the PODS were unloaded - Kelly's face when he told her.
- Me ALMOST buying an "authentic" brass diving helmet in honor of Rick's brother. Kelly and I laughing that Rick would actually think that was cool and then he would tell us again that his brother is in diving school.
- Rick walking from room to room frantically when a project or issue came up.
- Tad & Rick trying to dig a post for the mailbox - one of them digs and the other stands and watches. Me telling them they should wet the ground first, them telling me I don't know what I'm talking about, me seeing them 15 minutes later get the hose.
- Every time I walk outside Tad standing in the garage and drinking something different (sometimes it's a Sonic drink, sometimes it's a beer or soda from a can) and Rick smoking - except when they were digging the hole.
- Tad & Rick FINALLY showing up at 3pm on Saturday at the house to start unloading/unpacking, then leaving at 5:45pm to go where...back to HOME DEPOT?!!! We finally just stopped working at the house and met them out for dinner. If you can't beat them (or guilt them in our case), you might as well join them!!
Things I'll miss:
- Rick recounting the fire drills his father used to have in the middle of the night.
- Rick's weird but sort of sweet fascination/adoration with his dad. I really think deep down Rick thinks his dad is a super hero.
- The fact that Rick's mom is a super hero - or at least she thinks she is.
- Starting an argument with Tad and then finishing it with Rick.
- Rick starting an argument with Kelly and then finishing it with me.
- Kelly's expressions when Rick talks, talks with his mouth full, sings, sings with his mouth full, or just stands there.
- Laura-Kate's smile, her dimple, the way she stares at the ceiling in our den, the fact that most every time Rick handed her to Kelly or me she would stop crying, the fact that most every time Rick would take her from Kelly or me she would start crying, her sleeping on our green chair, her little grunts/sounds.
- Tad & Kelly wondering why everyone else in the world isn't more like them - people would be much more happy and content in life, less stressed out and have more people they got along with.
- Kelly to talk to, run errands with and laugh with.
- Having the house not be empty when Tad travels.
- "Venus" and "Fly Trap" playing Wii tennis - Tad and Rick not knowing which one was Venus and which one was Fly Trap.
- The bon fire party we won't be able to have at Rick & Kelly's new house.
- Tommy & Connie's lake place because now we have Rick and Kelly's to go to on Labor Day, Memorial Day and 4th of July!!
- "That's a good point."
- Me hearing every morning Kelly tell Charlotte, "Are you sure your mommy said you NEEDED cheese" or "Did your mommy tell you you could have some" everytime Kelly opened the pantry door.
- Laughing a lot at ourselves, our family, our kids, our friends & our lives.
