Whew!!! what a week!

Betcha all thought that I'd just give up on my new facebook goals and just log in regardless of if I blogged or not - right???  NOPE, just been so totally CRAZY around here that I pretty much haven't been online for a few days.  It's been an eventful few days -

Brief background:  We have a rental property up in West Valley and the tenants moved out unexpectedly.  We were lucky to find some new tenants the first week we had the home listed, and they wanted to move in ASAP.  Tuesday night, Tim and Brian (our handyman) went out to the property to get an idea of needed repairs.  The carpet was really bad and needed to be replaced in addition to other repairs needed.  Brian was able to get his team of carpet guys to come in the following day to lay carpet. 


So Wednesday morning, around 11'ish I got a call from Tim.  We have been thinking about replacing our carpets for a while now, and have talked about it a few times with Brian.  The carpet guys told Brian that if we went ahead with the same carpet they were putting into the rental, and did it at the same time, we could get a good deal on it.  We decided to jump in head first and agreed to be ready the next day for installers to be here.  I spent the remainder of Wednesday clearing everything out of the front room and 3 upstairs bedrooms.  Then we painted Bryan & Caleb's room.  (it was the WORST in the house.  Would have loved to have a few more days to paint the other rooms, but there just wasn't time - I did get the baseboards in the front room done as well.)  They arrived on Thursday around 1:30 and I was ready!  (I had just barely finished, but was ready) 


They ripped out all the old carpet (it was the original carpet that was installed when we built the house in 1998) then while they went to pick up the carpet and take a lunch break, I re-vacuumed all the edges and the carpet pads so it was ready to put the carpet down.  They got back around 5 and once they were all settled again, I headed out with the kids to met Tim for dinner.  (my kitchen was full of bookshelves, books, computers, tvs, mattresses, etc... and I was WAY too tired to try to actually prepare something.  We got home just before 8 to find brand new carpet in four rooms and the stairs!  (well, actually, they were still finishing up the stairs and a few places.)

I spent all day Friday moving things back into the rooms.  My neighbor and friend Paula came over that morning and helped.  It was a good thing, because I was totally spent and wouldn't have been able to get much done on my own.  Sometimes it takes having another person there to keep you moving....

I didn't have it in me to totally finish, so I took all that "end stuff"  (all those things that don't have a home and you should probably just throw away but you just can't...) and shoved it in a tote.  I'm hoping that I'll be able to tackle it next week with a fresh outlook.  Spent the day today doing some finishing cleaning, emptying a couple of "catch all baskets" and right now, at THIS MOMENT, the house is pretty good. 

The carpets, while maybe not exactly what I would have chose, are nice - and they are perfect for a house full of pets and kids who show no regard for cleanliness.  

We took the computer out of our room (wanted more space) so we are experimenting with me using a laptop instead of the desktop.  I'm finding it hard to type on this thing, my fingers keep slipping onto the wrong keys, but we'll see how it works out.

I did take some pictures, but I'll just add them to this post (or make a new one) once they are off the camera.