Oh my aching back

Today I worked my tail off. I have not worked so hard in my life. I took another car load over. Than I attacked the bathroom. I spent a good two hours on my hands and knees in the bathroom trying to get the title clean. The old owners had just put new title down but there was grout everywhere. I had never seen a worse title job in my life. So I took some Simple Green and a scrub brush and scrubbed the floor till my arms burned and my back ached. Levi got into the bucket of Simple Green and was sucking on a sponge. I had to call poison control but they said that he should be fine. It was my first time calling poison control.
Than Jer got off work and Sherry my MIL came over and we all went to work on the staples and nails in the floor. We got the living room 100% done and one of the bed rooms. Jeremy worked really hard getting the tack strips off from the carpet. And he got one room done. I am going to go there tomorrow and see if I can get the rest of the staples out. I am not sure if I will be able to get the tack strips because Jer was having a hard time with them so we will see. We hope to have the floors ready to sand by Friday. So that mean I have a lot to do tomorrow. I also have a doctors app and a meet up and a BDay party tomorrow. I am so tired and sore all over tonight. I don't want to know how I am going to feel tomorrow.
Being a home owner is a lot, I mean a lot of work. I knew it was going to be work but I did not realized how tired and how sore I was going to be. I will be so glad when we are moved in and can take it easy. I will be so happy when the floors are done and I can stand back and say that we did them.
I really wish I would have taken a before picture of the bathroom. It looks so much better. It looks like a new bathroom. Before if you would have taken a shower in there you would have come out feeling dirtier than before and now you would not mind taking a shower in there. I still have to go once over the whole room but its so much better than it was.
We are still on the hunt for a fridge.

I hate moving

Today was a busy day. I took two car load of boxes over to the new house than waited for the gas guy to come turn on the gas. He came and it took him forever to get the water heater working beacuse there was something wrong with the venting. He was very nice because he could have just red tagged it and told me to get some one out there to fix it but he was nice and fixed it for me.
Than Jer came over after work and we ripped up all the carpet in the 3 bedrooms. Now there is no more carpet in the whole house. I am excited. We are moving right along. Tomorrow we are going to rip up the tax strips from the carpet and get the kitchen sink working. Right now the sink is leaking out the garbage disposal and there is a line that use to run to the ice maker in the fridge that just squirts water everywhere now that there is not a fridge. So we need to cap that I hopefully just tighten the disposal. I am just taking one day at a time and one step at a time. I was really overwhelmed yesterday but I am doing better today. I just want to blink my eyes and have it all done. I hate moving and having a two year old under foot makes it that much crazier. I will be so glad when the move is all over. Its hard to have a house and not be living in it. But I do love the house and think that its going to be great for us to have are own space.

No more carpet

Here is a video of Jer taking the carpet up. I was helping right along side of him. It is so fun to be working side by side with him on our every own house.

When it rains it pours

Yesterday we signed all the closing papers for the house. We get to keys tomorrow. We are home owners. Its very exciting and scary all at the same time. We went to our new ward today. I love the ward. Everyone was super friendly and made us feel really welcome. I think we will fit into this ward a lot better.
I am a little stressed out right now because I have to get new tags for my car by the end of this month and its going to be $600 to fix it so it will pass the safety and emission test. So Jeremy and I are trying to figure out how we can do it. We might have to wait and fix the floors in the house for a few months because the car needs to be fixed. I guess this is part of being a home owner. I think I am cursed because very car I have ever had has not passed smog the first time and has always cost a but load of money to fix it before it will pass. So I really do think that I am cursed.
We are still trying to figure it all out because we need to redo the hardwood floors and we need to fix the car and we need to get a fridge. Once all those things have happen than I will feel a whole lot better and I know that they will all get done in there own time but I am a total stress case right now, mostly because of the car.
When it rains it pours.

Waiting

We were suppose to close on our house today. Jeremy took half of the day off and we had a sitter set up for Levi but or broker called and said something about the computers being down so they were not able to get the closing documents prepared. So we were on pins and needles all day waiting for them to call and say they got the computers up and very thing was ready. At 4:45 we got a call saying that the computers were back up but it was to late in the day to do it today so we will try again tomorrow.
It was so ruff waiting all day and than not having it happen. It was like when I was pregnant and the hospital was not ready for me and they had me keep calling all day to see if they had a bed open.
Its been one stressful day. I hope everything goes smooth tomorrow. We cant go on like this for to much longer.

Scouts

I did scouts tonight all by myself. My partner had a family thing she was at so I was in charge of it all. Not to toot my own horn but it could not have gone better. The theme this month is Summer fun. So we meet at the park and I brought an ice chest full of water balloons. We played a game with the water balloon where the boys tried to make the biggest spat with the balloon. One at a time they held the water balloon above their head and than threw it on the ground. I than took a piece of chalk and drew a circle around the spat mark the water made on the pavement. Who ever had the biggest circle won. The boys had so much fun spatting the balloons. We did that about 4 times. Than we all sat in a circle and played a version on hot potato with the water balloons. Instead of passing it to the person next to you you threw it to someone across from you. If you did not catch it or it broke on you than you were out and you play till theres a winner. The boys really enjoyed that one. We were having so much fun that a boy from the park joined us. He was a little young for scouts but the more the merrier. Than after a few rounds of that game we had an all out war with the rest of the balloons. Than I said that who ever picked up the most broken balloons got the first treat. I had never seen them pick up trash so fast in my life. They were running every where finding the little pieces of balloon. That was the best part of the night. Some times I do have the best ideas. Than we made smores. My partner had dropped off a little smore maker eairler in the day for us to use. It was this cute thing that you put a can on setrno in and roast the marsh mellows. The boys all had about three smores each. They were compelty wet and sticky by the time they went home.
I am really going to miss the scouts when we move. Its been really fun to work with them. I am not going to miss the ward but the scouts I will miss.

Moving right along

Here is the video tour of our new house. We will close on Friday as long as the under writer stops dragging her feet. Its been one stressful ride and its only just begun.
I have really started to pack and my house is in total disaster mode and Levi has no idea what is going on and hes not helping me pack at all.

No more water please

I think we have more than our fair share of water damage. Today I was sleeping in because on the weekend its Jer job to wake up with Levi and I get to sleep in. So I was just waking up and Jer comes in the bedroom and says to Sammy "If you peed in the hallway than you are going to be spending the day outside" He thought Sammy had an accident but than he realized that it was not Sammy and that there was water flooding the hallway. I jump out of bed and am trying to figure out where all the water is coming from. It was all over the bathroom and laundry room. Jer goes up stairs to get his parents and than we realize that it was the toilet that was leaking. I guess it had been leaking all night and it was a huge leak because we had a lake in the bathroom it had gone all the way to laundry room and than into the storage room. So we spent all morning trying to clean up all the water and we have been using the bathroom upstairs until we can fix the one down here.
First it was the water in the closet, than the celling in the kitchen was raining water, than the window well flooded into our living room, and now it was the toilet. Sherry said this morning that we are probably excited to move out of here because its been one thing after the other and its all been water issues. I think we should be good with the water for a while. At least if it happens when we get our own house than we will know how to handle it and we will have lots of practice on cleaning the water up.

BBQ 3 times this week

Today was the Elders Quarm BBQ. We had to go early to set up and help cook. We had a good time. We have has 3 BBQ this week. I am not complaining because that less food that we had to buy.
We also started packing today. Levi was not helping at all and we got the spare room mostly done. We are going through stuff and throwing a bunch of it away. Some of the stuff I wonder how it ever made it to Utah with us. It should of been left in Cali but oh well its not making a move again. So it took a while to go through the room because we were not just packing but throwing stuff out.

Levi loves to color. I was coloring with him the other day and than I look over at him and he is holding the crayon just like I was and coloring. I could not believe that he was holding a crayon like a big boy. So I jumped up and grabbed the camera because I was so impressed. Here is the video




Also in the video you can hear him say "Please". Its his new favorite word because he thinks he can get whatever he wants if he says please.

Fetzers Summer Party

Today was good. This evening we went to Jeremys work Summer Party. It was fun. We went last year but Levi was to little to really enjoy the games. So this year he really got into it. The food was really good and they had a ton of games to play like bean bag toss and a big inflatable slide. The kids favorite is the Candy Cannon. Its an air filled cannon that they stuff candy in and shot if off at the top of a hill and all the kids run and get the candy. Levi thought it was the coolest thing. We also won a $50 card to Best Buy in the raffle. The weather was cooler because we were up in the mountains but it felt so nice to be cool. Its been so hot for the last 2 months that I was loving the cooler weather.
This weekend we are going to start packing. Let the fun begin.

Big Boy

Big Boy

My big boy peed in the toilet today. I got him undressed for his bath and I stuck him on the toilet and he peed. I was so proud. He got off than wanted to get back on so I put him on the toilet again and he went again. Than he got off and flushed the toilet. I cant not believe that he peed in the toilet. He is getting so big so fast.
We went on a tour of a candy factory today. That was a lot of fun. We got to try a bunch of candy fresh off the line. Levi did really well and I think he liked watching all the machines working.
We played outside for a long time this evening while Jer mowed the lawn

Petting Zoo

This was the pictures I took on Saturday of Levi in the Petting Zoo at the fair. I was bummed that I forgot my camera so all I had was my cell phone.

Our new house

Today Jeremy and I got to walk through the house with our Realtor. It was fun to see the house knowing that it will be ours soon. The fixed the bathroom and did the other stuff we asked but the house is really dirty so its going to take a real good scrubbing to get it clean. But I am so excited to have our own space. Levi had so much fun in the backyard. He climbed right up on the swing set and loved it.
Here are the pictures that I promised. Amy said that I need to take a video so when we go back in a week I will take a video.

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This weekend was a good weekend. We went to the County Fair yesterday and Levi had the most fun in the petting zoo. He had to walk up to every single animal in there and pet it. He tried to get on top of the miniature cow but Jeremy would not let him. He was so happy to just be in there with all the animals. We also saw the sheep and the big cows and he loved seeing them too. He would moo at the cows and he even tried to baa like a sheep. It was so fun to watch him interact with the animals.
Today we went to church. Levi brought the snack to nursery and thought he was to cool getting to carry the snack bucket but as soon as I opened the door to the classroom he freaked out. I think that hes getting more use to it though.
Tomorrow we are meeting are realtor at our new house and doing a walk through so I will post pictures latter this week. I am going to take a bunch of pics and Jer is going to measure the rooms and such so I know how big of a fridge I need to get and how much carpet we will need and all the fun stuff. I am getting so excited about having are own house. We went to Lowes yesterday and just walked around and thought of all the cool stuff the we are going to do to the house. I told Jer that because he is a craftsman that I expect our house to have the coolest wood work in it and I have a long long list of stuff that I need him to build for us. My favorite part of Lowes was the garden section with all the plants and we had fun just dreaming of all the things we want to do, like put a huge pond in the yard with fish and put different trees around and a fire pit. We ended up not spending a dime at Lowes which I thought was amazing if you know my husband. We were just window shopping and dreaming.
I cant wait to be in my own space and I hope everything goes smooth from here on out.
I told Amy that I would post a map so she could see where the new house is so that link at the top is to the map. The blue pin at the top of the map is the new house, the one at the bottom is the house we are in now, the one in the middle is Jers work. Let me know if the link worked for you Amy.

Our new house

Well the offer was accepted and now all we need to do is have it inspected and than we will be home owners. I am so happy. Everything seems to be falling into place.
Here is a pic of the out side of the house. This was the pic from the add. Next time I go to the house I am going to bring my camera and take some of my own pictures so Amy and mom can see the inside. I cant wait to start moving and have my own space and a huge yard for Levi and Sammy.
Jeremy said that when we get our own place I can have a cat so I will be getting a cat very soon.
I will keep you all updated on the progress.

Fast Sunday

Today was fast Sunday. I got up and bore my testimony. I have not done that in years and years. It was very fulfilling. I love my family. Levi is still having a hard time saying good bye when I drop him off at nursery but they said he calmed right down today and than half way through he needed a new diaper so they brought him to me and than I had to drop him off again. He was not happy. When Jer went and picked him up at the end he said he was playing. I think that he will get use to it.
We should know about the house tomorrow morning at 9am. So I hope its good news.

The weekend

We had some fun in the pool today. It was nice to just relax today and spend time as a family. The inlaws are out of town this weekend so it was just us.
We have been very very busy this week with the house hunt and we did not have any time all week to just chill as a family.
We did put an offer on a house and the seller counter offered and we countered his counter offer and we should know by Monday if the house is ours or not. Its going to be a long weekend. Our agent talked to the sellers agent and the sellers agent is 95% sure the seller will except our last offer so we are pretty excited about that. The seller liked our first offer expect that he counter with him not having to redo the floors. So we will have to refinish all the hardwood and put new carpet in ourself.