Life and Times of The Johnston family: Helping Jen Get Settled In Her New Home!

Saturday and Sunday we spent helping Jen get settled into her new condo! It's absolutely perfect for her and Daniel! We started up in Clearfield she came up and dropped Daniel off with my mom and we left our kids with her as well(she had the toughest job....by FAR! Especially because Devin was having a really off day!!) My dad, Tony, Jen and I went over to where our and my parent's storage units are, then got furniture we're not using anymore to help furnish her home. Tony and I had a dining set, and a bed frame, and a cabinet we use as part of our pantry unit. My parents' let her use their toddler bed and mattress, their play kitchen and kids table and chairs. After we got all loaded up we went down to Jen's condo and unloaded stuff. Jen and I moved and went through boxes with the guys help of getting them where they needed to go. Tony was very helpful down in the crawl space getting the things she didn't need put down there. Once everything was put together and moved around, Tony and my dad went to get Jen's new mattress while she and I tackled boxes in her room. The first DI the guys went to didn't have the foundation she wanted, so Tony came with us while my dad went up to the Layton DI were he had more success. Tony Jen and I did a few more things around her condo then we picked up some lunch at McDonalds on our way back to the storage units where my dad met us and we picked up a small couch we had been holding onto that Tony's brother was getting rid of, but had no real need of as we plan on just using the larger couch in our future basement playroom. And it just so happens that the little couch fits perfectly in her condo and it's the perfect color too! We also picked up the kiddie table and a couple chairs to put in Daniel's room, then drove back down to Jen's condo in pouring rain(of course it only rained when we were doing things outside, it seemed to stop whenever we were inside for a while). We got her mattress on her bed frame, got the couch moved in, oh and my parents' had a little TV for her to use as well, so they got that mounted on the wall, and that place really started to feel homey! My dad then left to get another job done he needed to for my aunt and uncle, and Tony, Jen and I went to Walmart to get some things she needed for her home, then swung by her parents' house to get her and Daniels hung up clothes then made a last stop at her condo to unload it all. We stopped by Lowes up by our place to get a couple things we couldn't find at Walmart. Then went and relieved my mom from our kids. Jen treated us all to dinner at Cracker Barrel which was delicious and very kind of her to do and she truly didn't have to!
Sunday we had a slow start but got down to Jen's place around 11, and Tony put together a bunch of stuff, a cabinet to go with the one we had and the shoe rack we had to give her and with those three she has a very nice pantry! He put together her over the toilet cabinet, the cube storage for Daniel's room and a little bookshelf for Jen's room. He tacked the TV cords to the wall and gathered them up with a zip tie so they were out of the way and looking alot nicer. He started getting the baby gate put up at the top of the stairs but his drill battery died so my dad's going to stop by on his way home from work today and get that finished up for her! Elizabeth had been complaining about not feeling well Saturday and had a mild fever that night that we gave her some medicine for, and Sunday morning she seemed alright except she was loosing her voice, but after lunch she started crashing, her fever went up, her voice went away and by the time Tony was finishing up she was having trouble breathing. So we took her to the good Insta Care in Bountiful where she was easily diagnosed with a bad case of Croup. :( They gave her(and Devin) a otter pop (to help her breath, cold opens up the airways with Croup) as her pulse ox was only 91. They gave her the steroid medication and sent us on our way. Both kids fell asleep as we started heading home so Tony took the side roads to give them time to rest, especially Elizabeth. We came home had dinner and called it a day!

Jen's moving boxes had a plethora of used for the kids....they made fun cars and a train, a table to eat their lunch on, and a nook to play their Kindles in while Daniel napped!