My New Lehi House

Front pantry and closett.v. room - one viewkitchenback door and table

front room: the picture is bad but I wanted to show you how cute the brown paint is... room off the kitchen/ t.v. room - view #2 You'll notice the lovely grass in the front yard and that I was too lazy to move the bikes for the picture. It is too cold to do any serious moving of any bikes. I hope you will forgive me. Rest of the house will have to follow in a slideshow at a later date...tune in to see more.

Let me give you a run down of just a few of the events that have happened since we arrived...

Not even a week after living in this lovely house, Maddie decided that she needed to add her own little mark to it. While the rest of the family was asleep Maddie got up and sneaked down the stairs and found my make-up. She then proceeded to paint lovely pictures on the carpet (right under that red rug) with my lipsticks and mascara. I have to say that most of the lipsticks were almost brand new and the mascara had a lot of wearing left in them. There was make up from hell to breakfast and that isn't even an exaggeration. I actually think I was more mad about the make-up being ruined then the carpet. I called my SIL Anna to see if I could borrow her carpet cleaner and she brought it over. We scrubbed the stains and then proceeded to turn on the carpet cleaner only to find out that it wouldn't suck. This is an almost brand new carpet cleaner and has no reason not to be working. I was so bothered. So I tried to get out most of the water with towels etc... It wasn't even barely dry a day and a ha;f later that Maddie found some extra waxy crayons and made enormous rainbows all over the carpet (the exact same place as the first mess). To top that all off, she had an accident and there was poop everywhere on the carpet too. So I had more stains, poop and no working carpet cleaner. Needless to say I was ready to spit bullets at that moment and lock Maddie up for the rest of the week. (This whole thing was going on at the same time as adding extra locks to all outside exit doors. She had already been in a few neighbors homes unannounced). So I took out the cleaner one more time and sprayed all the stains. I soaked the carpet with the soapy carpet cleaner and then took a few buckets of water to dilute it, then used my shop vac to suck up all the excess water. I can't tell you how long I spent doing that. I think the next time she does something to the carpet I will just rip it up! Just teasing. That was just the first week. She really does like to get into mischief. Seth eggs her on too and that doesn't help. Maddie and Makenna have been enjoying riding the bus to school and that is fun for them. Makenna has never taken a bus on a regular basis before so she was thrilled. Maddie was thrilled to have the bus back from when she took it to preschool. It has been a mess putting away everything and get used to the new place, but it is so great to be with Joe and to have help with the kids. I love living by all this family. It is such a new experience for me. I can just hope on my bike or in my car and be to Anna's house in minutes. She is such a great friend and we are always doing stuff for eachother. My parents are only 15 min away and so are Joe's. And Jill and Kristen and Katie are all close too. It is great. I am having a lot of fun. Hopefully the messes will calm down and I won't have to lock Maddie up. Just teasing.