Pack and Clean and Mice...OH MY!!

We are doing it again...we are packing up!  Its all a big project but the biggest of all was probably cleaning and organizing our storage unit.  I know, its sad that it was such a big project but when you pack up as often and as quickly as we sometimes have to...it just happens.

So, I'm sad that I don't have a picture of the before but luckily my brother in law took a video the other day while they were trying to get the couches out.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

It only took us 8 hours but holy cow...we took it from being slap full to MAYBE a 1/3 of the way full.  We then had enough room to let our friends use the rest of the space and so then after an 11 hour day, our unit finished out by looking like this...

I can not believe how much we have fit into this space now.  It was a tiring day but quite the accomplishment.

Now we just have to finish packing up the basement and loading up the cars and we will be good to go.  Matt leaves Wednesday and I leave Thursday.  Let the count down begin.

Brief history of our moves:
February '08: Out of: Single housing and into married housing
                      Into:  Small 1 bedroom apt (a SMALL house that was divided into 3 apartments)
March '08:  Into Matt's parents basement (still waiting for town home to be finished)
June '08: Into apartment in Provo just for summer (decided not going to town home and deciding where to go)
August'08: Into sisters basement (until the condo we decided to move into was vacant and ready)
October '08: Into Pleasant Grove Condo
May '09:  To Columbus, Ohio for 1st summer sales summer
August '09: To Modesto, California for 2nd half of summer
October '09: Back to PG condo
April '10: To Washington DC/Chicago for 2nd summer of summer sales/FA job
August '10: Matt to Missouri for 2nd half of summer - Heather still in Chicago
October '10: To other sisters basement until we decided where to go (then decided to stay)
April '11: To Sheboygan, Wisconsin for 3rd summer sales summer

Where does mice fit into this?! Well of course we are ALMOST done cleaning the unit.  No mice, no spiders, NOTHING that I had been worried about.  And then, it happened.  I was reaching into a bin to finish organizing and cleaning it out when the little head popped up looking at me.  I SCREAMED LIKE AND OLD LADY AND IT WAS LOUD AND IT WAS ANNOYING but it just happened!

Matt comes, gets it out, and then finishes flipping through the bin.  I must have gone to something else because then when I came back to finish it...you guessed it...ANOTHER ONE! Are you kidding me?! He went through it! AND WHY AM I THE ONE FINDING THESE THINGS!  This time Matt killed it.  He told me to look away and then handled the situation. :) Lucky me.

BUT THEN!!!! I come home and I had found chocolates where the wrappers had been nibbled away.  I told Matt I thought I heard mice in the walls and he thought I was crazy.  And then it happened, I heard something and moved a box that was sitting in the corner, and out ran a mouse!!!! I wanted to die.  What the heck was going on?? So of course, I couldn't sleep.  Who expected me to?! I was paranoid and rightfully so.  Because in the middle of the night, I heard it again.  In the same room as me, while I'm sleeping on the floor (Matt and I have been camping out lately - we love this 4 inch foam pad and have a camp out in the main sitting area).  ANYWAY, I flip.  Wake Matt up, want him to make this thing go away.  I use a flash light and see it dart across the floor but in the wrong direction! (Away from the closet door I want it to go back into and disappear!)

So we set traps, immediately in the storage unit and in the basement.  And who knows about our unit, but with in 2 hours we had a mouse at the house! I have a picture but I don't know if people really want to see it.  :)