Bombs Away!!

So...we are officially Newnan, GA residents as of this weekend. I'll say our stay has started on a pretty rough note, but seems to be getting better as of now.
The first mishap was the U-Haul rental truck arrangement. Luke and I decided that since our stuff was already packaged and in a storage unit, that renting a U-Haul and driving ourselves would be better (not a great idea apparently). The company did provide labor to load and unload our stuff, but we happen to move on the same weekend as everyone else on the planet, and got stuck driving a full hour away just to pick up our truck. Augusta is not that small of a place....seriously...but apparently 26ft. trucks are a rare bread, and 26ft. trucks with air conditioning even rarer. Poor Luke suffered the 1 hour ride back to Augusta and the 3 hour ride to Newnan with no AC. As if that wasn't enough...when turning in the U-Haul they noted our contract read to receive 36 moving pads with the truck. We only got 6 of the 36 pads and the lady on the receiving side basically told Luke it looks like he stole 30 moving pads. YIKES! NOT GOOD! So...that issue is still getting resolved, but thankfully out of our hands at this point. On a happy side of things; guy who gave us the truck has been really great and extremely nice/helpful.
Mishap number two is the real whammy!! We arrived to sign our lease and move in Saturday morning. When checking out the apartment we noticed a strange (chain smoker lived here/not good smell), but it didn't seem that bad. I thought we could light some candles and move on. Apparently I was really wrong! After having the guys move everything in and shut the doors...the smell began to overtake. So...to move this story along I'll just tell you Luke and I opened windows and doors to air out things, lit candles, sliced and laid out apples, sprayed Febreeze all over, dumped Arm & Hammer in the carpets (which turned out to be new), vinegared the walls, and basically tried everything in our power to rid the smell. We called the apartment and told them our story (the smell really did improve a ton with all of our tricks by the way) and they brought over THE BOMB!! I blew that puppy up this afternoon and think we are FINALLY good to go forward with the unpacking, aka: removing plastic cover our couch has been forced to wear this entire process! The apartment complex has also been very responsive to every little request I've called in, so another silver lining to note in all of the headache.
There have been other little unfortunate things here and there like dropping and breaking one of my wine glasses, but I'll spare everyone the details.

 Happy Notes:

• Clint and Catherine came to visit us on their way back to Savannah from Atlanta this past weekend.
• My SIL Stacie and my two amazing nieces also came to visit on their way back to ATL from Gump Town.  
• Our location really has been AWESOME for running all of the moving errands. I can walk to Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, and Lowes! 
• Luke and I were able to drive up to ATL to see my little niece get first place in her event at her swim meet last night (I'll post a pic later...going to steal one from Stacie).
• Seriously...my favorite flower is right outside of my back door (so I've been snipping away and making bouquets around the house for FREE.

Gardenias are my FAVORITE!

Lovely Flowers from Stacie and the girls!

The BOMB

Poor Couch

Yes it's still at mess, but we're working on it!

Kitchen Progress

TV is mounted (yikes that was harder than I thought). Now to tackle the cords!