Running in Circles: our weekend in Dallas and moving stuff

our weekend in Dallas and moving stuff

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Brice and I spent the last weekend in Dallas together without our little buddy! Our mission was to find an apartment and hopefully commit to a lease and to figure out if we're going to need a second car or not. We enjoyed our flights back and forth not having to wrangle a little one on our laps, but we sure missed her!

My parents watched Hazelbug here in Provo and she had a great time!

She even got to go to a BYU volleyball game!

Well we spent several hours on both Friday and Saturday looking for an apartment. We nailed two down that we both liked and applied to one. I really really love the other apartment St. Andrews, but the The Village Apartments had the most perfect environment for Hazel and I during the day PLUS it's 1/2 mile from grocery stores, Target, and the NorthPark Center Mall -which has an Anthropologie :) -

St. Andrews

The Lakes at the Village

We should hear today if we were approved which were pretty certain we will be since its something we can afford and we have never been evicted from a landlord- but if not then I will be on the phone tomorrow hopefully getting the St. Andrews apartment.

P.S. do people really get evicted? I guess they probably do- but not much around our little married housing neighborhood in Provo.

While in Dallas we looked up some popular places to eat on Yelp and started eating. I'm a salad & sandwhiches (and chocolate) kind of girl but Brice was loving the BBQ and the hole in the wall places. We ate a burger joint that reminded us a lot of the pizza place in Toy Story.

As far as moving goes- we sold our contract for our apartment in Provo so we will be out of it by May 1st...don't mind as a I start to panic that that is only a month away... we're starting to sell a few furniture pieces that were over and aren't really worth moving.

I've got to figure out our actual move process- anyone have experience using a POD or company like it?

That's our best bet because we can't really drive a U-haul with Hazel. Also playing around with the idea of selling the Jetta since we're not really sure if it will get us safety to Texas. It runs great but on previous long distance trips we always run into some problems.

We're getting really excited after being in Dallas for a few days but I'm getting nervous too!

Change is good right?

6 comments:

Michelle CattsMarch 31, 2014 at 1:50 PM
I'm so excited for you Bre! FOr our move to New York I looked at A TON of moving options. In the end we went with box pods offered by u-haul. I think they are called U-pack. Anyway, they hold a ton of stuff and you can pick them up at the uhaul place near you or have them dropped off at your house. It ended up being cheaper than PODS.

Be fore warned, there are a few pod places based out a Nevada that give really cheap estimates but are scammers. A friend used them and her stuff seriously never got delivered and they are still trying to get their money back.

Good Luck!!
LanaMarch 31, 2014 at 2:23 PM
Fun. Maybe some time we can get together. We can walk around the huge galleria mall when it's 120 degrees and all of us are dying to get out.
Taber & RebeccaMarch 31, 2014 at 7:23 PM
We used 1-800-packrat. They were cheaper than pods and a nicer container. They stored it for us while we found housing, but since you've already found a place that wouldn't be an issue for you. :)
bristylMarch 31, 2014 at 8:24 PM
We used the Uhaul pods and loved them! (For the same reason-you can't drive a truck with kids!) It's especially cheaper if you truck the stuff to your nearest Uhaul location and pack the pods there...
MeganApril 1, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Actually, you can drive a Uhaul with a small child. We did when David was 6 months old, and towed our car behind us. You have to get whatever size truck has a bench seat, instead of two captain's chairs, and then just put that carseat rear-facing! You'll have to call around, but Uhaul had the best prices on the 14-foot truck (I think the 10 foot truck did not have the bench seat, so it wasn't an option) and some of the other companies didn't offer a bench seat on small trucks.

It's not ideal for comfort, but it is technically allowed by law if there is no backseat (like if you drove a pickup truck). Also, David did a lot better traveling when he could see me and I could entertain him a bit.

Yay for moving and a new start!