I am a basketcase.

I wrote this last week when I didn't have Internet... read below to understand how crazy I sometimes can get when I'm having full blow panic attacks about moving across the damn country. Whose idea was this again? Oh... mine.

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October 4th 2011

It's Tuesday and guess what.. I'm passing on the three random things today and instead catching you up on this move! This has been a time of growth for our relationship and a time of absolute pure hell. Let me just start off by saying that, “I was excited to move” Well, I’m excited to Live somewhere new…Moving there on the other hand is horrible. I had about 20 meltdowns in the span of 7 hours yesterday and 1 full on panic attack that left me looking like this face down on a stripped bed….

Olive thinking... "you need to settle down psycho"

The task of packing ones crap up is one that many people don’t put a lot of thought into. You think, “Yea, I’ve got some stuff I’ll get about 10 boxes and that should be plenty” when in fact you need 3 times that amount. Or the task of wrapping each and every glass, dish, jar, and candle with newspaper several times so that it won’t break in route to your new home. When you handle so many 2009 (thanks to Chaddys granny & papaw) newspapers that your hands are stained black and feel thick with ink. YUCK. Not to mention all the standing, squatting, bending, lifting, and pushing that you will be doing or the fact that time is dwindling down and you may never finish. Forget that crap! We may never move away from Seattle now just because I never want to go through what I just did ever again! All in all I’m just another brick in the wall and we did it! We finished packing all 30 boxes, 6 bookcases, 2 TVS and 2 TV stands, 1 dresser, and a partridge in a pear tree….

I spy with my little eye OLIVE.

Too much CRAP.

We miss sleeping in that bed already... 6 days until we meet again!

We have too much stuff.

After freaking out all night and morning it was done and I was READY for the movers to arrive once they did it’s another story that I’ll save for next time. Let’s put it this way though: my Mom (who had to come down and help me because I was FREAKING OUT) now has two new facebook friends… Dave and Greg.

More moving adventures soon to come... We leave tomorrow for our first leg of driving up to St. Louis! Hopefully my Uncle in St. Louis has some Internet I can steal tomorrow before Chads show at Pop's Blue Moon.

Come out and play St. Louis!!



Guess whose coming for dinner!!?

The Knights are!

(Catch up post from LAST weekend - Not this weekend LAST- Yes, I'm still terribly behind.) 

It must be a southern thing but everyone has been feeding us. Thankfully it hasn't been pizza and cheesesticks and some of it has been actually healthy! Score for Terri not gaining 20lbs on this roadtrip. For our last weekend in Laurel we tried to spend time with Chad's family in order to see them all before we left on Friday. Here are some pictures from the family get togethers that took place Saturday and Sunday of last week:

Chad and his Papaw Jack

I love this photo

The first time I met Papaw he told me:

 "Uh oh...you've been bit by the Knight curse. You don't stand a chance now girl."

He was right.

Three generations of Knight men.

 I'm just excited there is a pretty good chance the hubs will have hair when he is older.

Those pictures above were from last Saturday night. Mimi & Papaw grilled out for us and the weather was so wonderful we basically stayed on their patio all night. It's been really hard saying goodbye to Chads family...they are completely supportive but very sad to see us leave. The next picture is one of the only ones I managed to get of our Sunday lunch gathering over at Chads Aunt Sharon's house. She made the biggest pan of chicken spaghetti I've ever seen and it was a good time to see most of that side of Chads family.

Little sister Morgan, Momma Diane, and CK

PS. I just noticed CK wore the same outfit two days in a row... what would TMZ say Chad!? Shameful.

It's been super hard to say goodbye to those two but remember:

We'll be home for Christmas.

It's kinda funny blogging these a week late because they just don't seem like long gone memories. Everything's happening so fast! The move is here and we are on our way to St. Louis first thing in the morning. Life just doesn't wait for anyone or anything to be ready- it just smacks you in the ass and says get moving. In Chads favorite words, "Come on baby we've got some dreams to chase."

In other news!! I haven't been a total fatass/let down! Brace yourselves...We went running yesterday! I really want to try and not be a complete failure at running/exercising while on this adventure. I've gotten Haley to promise to run with me in every state that we stop in for the night - hopefully we both stick to it and don't say never mind and eat pizza and cookie dough in our hotel rooms/cars for the next 5 days.

I don't have any cool pictures from my run like other bloggers do...I'm basically just trying not to die remember? We stayed at my Grans in Jackson and she has this Huge neighborhood behind her house that weaves in 700 different directions and I wanted to go get lost back there. Well I accomplished that mission and ended up coming out on an extremely long road filled with tons of cars zooming by and no sidewalks. Did I tell you all that I'm a genius sometimes? CK went with me on our "run" and I basically made him stay with me the whole time so he didn't get nearly as good of a a workout as he probably wanted. (I was painfully sucky due to the fact it had been a week since I last ran) We left our Ipods at home though and had some really good conversation when I wasn't dying trying to get my breathing in check. We aren't sure about the exact distance we ran because we tried to go back over it and clock it in our car but we ended up getting lost again - roughly though it was around 2.5 miles or a little more (maybe). I'm sore today so that's all that matters and I feel good. Yay, for not being sucky at life and getting some exercise in on the road.

More to come soon - I've still got more catching up to do...

Goodbye Laurel Party

I've got a lot of catching up to do. (Shout out to Haley for letting me scam some Internets!) Expect lots of post every time I've got Internet access...

Last Thursday Night 9/29/2011

Terri & Chad’s Farewell Party!

How amazing a feeling it is to be loved and to be sincerely missed by people that have come into your life and poured so much into you and shaped what kind of person you would turn into. It has been such a bittersweet feeling leaving Laurel and moving onto something completely new 2600 miles away. I can’t explain enough how lucky I feel since high school. I went to college not knowing a soul there and now 6 years later I have the best friends and new family that a girl could ever hope for. Those few amazing ones I met in high school stood by me always and then all these new characters popped up and made me grow and taught me so many things about people in general. I cherish my friends; I cherish our memories, and the simple way that each one of them is different from each other. My batchlorette party was a perfect example of the mesh up of friends that I have. I guess it’s like when you have kids, I’m always scared that I will love one more than the others… but then with friends you love the different parts of them that fit so well with yourself maybe that’s how loving kids works too.

So, back to reality now – sorry I’ve been emotional lately (hence the outpouring of friend love) I hate to say that I didn't get to take a lot of pictures at the party (because my camera went nuts) of our wonderful friends and family but one person did come that I had to try and get a photo with...

One person that helped shape me entirely in college was one of my Sociology professor who single handily forced me to do my best and kept me interested and on my toes every year. I look up to her and the sweetest gift is the friendship that we have developed throughout the last few years. That being said we can’t take a good picture together for anything! Enjoy:

That is just too insane.

We love each once of our beautiful friends and thank you so much for coming to see us that one last time! It was an amazing night and a great last show in Laurel for Chad. I should have taken a picture of each one of you instead I’m going to give a shout our right now to everyone I can remember seeing and if I forget you don’t hate me: Hank & Kayla S, Kevin & Ginny S, Kyle T & Family, (including their sweet baby girl who danced the night away) Josh W, Tyler H, Jessie G, Chad’s Grandmother & Granddaddy, Uncle Tom A,  Granny & Papaw S, Mother & Step Father, Michelle C, Dustin, Nicole C, Harvey L, Donna C, Mrs. P, Tim T, Jodie J, Skinnard, Angie I, Zach U, Candice & friends, Big John & date, Shaumi, Drew P, Dana F & Father & Friend, Tracey P, Amanda G, Lisa S, Katie W, and more. I THINK I included everyone but if I didn’t I am So sorry and It is not on purpose – the out pouring of love and support we got that night meant so much to us I can’t even correctly explain it. Thank you from the bottom or our hearts!


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That post is a week and a day late but tonight we are getting ready for Chad official LAST MS SHOW at Brady's in Jackson. I'll try and update a few times tomorrow *fingers crossed*