Our Eventful Furniture Trip

Monday we went to Babies R Us to pick up our new nursery furniture. We were so excited to be able to set up the room. We ordered three pieces of furniture and knew that we could not get it all in the truck so our good friends Wood and Elizabeth volunteered to help us and drive their Tahoe. We thought that afterwards we would take them out to eat somewhere nice for all their help. Little did we know, but the furniture was already assembled and the packaging material made it huge!! We were thinking that we might have to make two trips. Wood and Justin worked for a long time trying to get it strapped down and secure and eventually had to buy more rope at Wal-Mart. When they came back to the truck the wind had picked up and blew the crib box out of the truck! Then the heavens let loose and the rain fell. The guys decided to take a break under the awning of the store and when they did the crib box started to fall out again! Of course, Justin's instinct is to try to catch it and when he runs out there his feet slip out from under him and falls flat on his behind (he has a nice bruise to show for it now). Oh no you say - well it gets worse, there is a car coming right at him and they have to swerve to miss him! Later when he could laugh about the situation we wondered what the conversation was like in that car! So we finally get strapped in and all thoughts of dinner are gone and we just want to get home. Of course, I am a nervous wreck because it is raining, we cant see out the back because of the two huge boxes, and it is dark by this time. Not a good combination! We get five minutes down the road and the gas light comes on. We stop for gas and the first pump won't take our card, nor the next one. So I have to go in and pay and then we can get on the road again. After we got lost once (we took the back way so that we would not have to drive on the interstate) we FINALLY made it home. I have never in 5 years been happier to be back in Decatur! Wood and Justin unloaded everything and believe it or not there was not a drop of rain on any of the furniture and the crib was still intact. Way to go Babies R Us! The furniture looks beautiful and now we are working on decorating. It is so much fun!