New House Adventures

Dad, Marlon & Seth tore up the flooring on the entire first floor. The kids & I spent the next week living upstairs. By the way, a huge thanks to my mom & sis who took the kids til Saturday night & to the Harps who not only helped us load the truck on Friday, but spent their entire Saturday tearing up the floors and helping us unpack! We have amazing friends & family!


My dad spent his birthday helping us out, in fact, he was here all last week doing tile, painting & fixing miscellaneous things. It has been an incredible blessing having him around to help us out & I really dont know what we would have done without him. I've always known he worked construction & could do a lot of different things, but I guess I underestimated him. He really saved the day when he spent 3 days fixing a major plumbing problem. It would have cost us thousands of dollars to pay a plumber to do it. When we discovered raw sewage coming out of a random broken pipe coming out of our garage floor on Day 3 we were really freaking out. I called the plumber in the morning & then spoke with my dad. "What? You called a plumber?! I can do that!" What a relief! It was much worse that we had anticipated. Apparently, instead of doing the basic miserable things like banging holes into walls and taking front doors, the previous owners took a sledge hammer to the access pipe in the garage and cracked it all the way to the main before being evicted by the bank. I would have preferred holey walls. Dad had to scoop out a ton of crap (literally) tear up concrete, carve out pieces of the old pipe which took forever, rent a "sewer snake" and fix the blockage, then install a new pipe & pour concrete. At least we got to put the kids hand prints & names in the concrete right? ;) (Due to their graphic nature, pics have not been included) Did I mention that the company who did the home inspection didn't even catch this huge problem? I had noticed a hole with paper towels stuffed in it on the day we moved in but thought nothing of it. Don't use The Elite Group Property Inspection!
Seriously though, we would rather have a house & have these problems that not have one at all, we are so very blessed!


Donny approved of our paint color choice. He came downstairs & saw "abuelito" painting the walls & got a big grin on his face. "Mommy, I like when abuelito paints the walls blue."