The Biggest Nightmare....

On October 16th Griff and I woke up to a house flood... Started from the bath tub and went down to the main floor to the basement. We woke up around 4:30am to find our bedroom soaked!! We heard water running so we ran downstairs and saw water pouring out of all the light fixtures and fire alarm. We were sick to our stomachs!!! Griff called his parents and they came out to help us wet vac and call the insurances. Around noonish the insurance sent some guys to tear out the carpet and flooring so everything could dry out. They even brought in dehumidifiers to help get all the moisture out of the flooring. They had to cut a huge hole in the ceiling so that the beams would dry out as well. When I saw them start to cut into the ceiling and pull the dry wall down I lost it.... I had to go upstairs and cry knowing that my house was in such a mess!

We had to wait quite awhile before they could send someone out to fix the ceiling... It all happened on the 16th of October and no one came to fix the ceiling till the 4th of November!! Blakelee and I stayed at my moms for a few weeks while Griff stayed with a buddy who lived close to his work. Once they got the ceiling fixed they put our carpet down in our bedroom so we were able to put our bed back together and could finally move back in. But they had to tear out our kitchen cabinets so that they could continue to rip out the flooring! They said that we would be able to pick out new cabinets and just pay the upgrade cost. So we did and weeks later they tell us it wasn't approved through our insurance to tear out the top cabinets so we wouldn't be able to get all new cabinetry. We are not happy to say the least... They said after they get our flooring in they will piece together our cabinets. They said that the guy who teared them out did a great job and it should be easy to put them back... Lets hope so and that they look good.

This whole thing has been a major nightmare! The guy we have been working with has been very hard to contact and very hard to get one of his guys out here to work on our house!!! No one has been out here in about a month to do anything. All because  they say we had to pick a flooring first, so we did, we picked tile and the guy messed up on our bid for the tile 3 times!! When he finally got it right it was VERY expensive so we said never mind. So they brought us some flooring options. The one we picked they said we would have to pay almost $1,000 out of pocket!!!! We said never mind. So they sent us the ones that would be covered by our insurance so we picked one. But of course they one we picked has to be ordered and it wont be till next week till it gets installed!!!! Yes that is 2 months later!!! Once the flooring gets in then he says everything else should move along pretty quick. I am so not happy with these guys and have gotten very upset with them!!! All Pro is the company we went with and let me warn you now... if you ever have a situation like this and they are one of the companies you can choose, DON'T!!! They are slower then a snail and don't care how long it takes to finish a project!!

2 months later and we don't have a kitchen, carpet pad in the TV room, no bathroom floors, and the ceiling needs to be fixed from not being done right. It has been a mess and we are feed up!!! I am so upset because we don't have a dishwasher, kitchen sink, our kitchen table got ruined from the flood!! We want to set up Christmas and get our house back sooner then Christmas Day but the rate we are moving at I don't see that happening and it breaks my heart!!! I am the biggest Christmas Lover and to not be able to decorate my house right now has made me so sad!!! I have been beyond stressed with my house and of course when it rains it pours... we had to find a new babysitter for Blakelee because my sister, who watched her every Monday and Tuesday for over a year, is going to have her 3rd baby girl this month so it was getting hard on her to watch Blakes. And of course work gets stressful every once in awhile due to the hours I get.... So I have been in the biggest stress mess!!! I can not wait for our house to be finished and get back to our every day routines.

All I want for Christmas is my house finished!!

October Smiles

October came and went way to fast!!! Here are some fun pictures that we took this month.

10-10

..Errands and Bath Time..

10-12

..Making Caramel Apples..

10-13

..Churchy Time..

..Caramel Apple Eating..

10-15

..New Car..

10-19

..Croods Movie Night and Story Time..

10-21

..Sleeping Owl..

10-27

..Playing In The Fall Leaves..

..Loving Her New Hat..

..Celebrating Moms Birthday With The Family..

Goodbye October!

Heber Scrapbooking Weekend

October 24-26 my mom sister and I went on a Scrapbooking weekend up in Heber. The lady's house that we go to every month does a weekend once or twice a year with all the other consultants and who ever wants to go. We had a blast to say the least. We headed up on Thursday afternoon right after lunch. Once we made it to the HUGE cabin we unloaded our car and found our room. It was seriously so nice, we had a king bed, pull out couch, and a bathroom all to our selves. This cabin was so big it had a basement, main level, and 2 upstairs. Every room slept at least 4 but some slept more. There was play rooms, basketball court, big hot tub, pool, fire pit, theater room, game room, and a huge kitchen. We were all in heaven!!

Not to mention the view that we had out of every window and off of every balcony.

Once we toured around we settled into our table and started to scrapbook. Once you finished a spread you got to put your name into a drawing and got to wear a witch hat. 

While we scraped Dianne was cooking such a yummy dinner for us!!! She cooked every single meal and dessert for us the whole weekend. We had salads, soups, homemade rolls, breakfast casseroles, hot chocolate and much much more. Lets just say we brought many snacks and didn't even eat them because we were always full from such delicious food.

We stayed up until about 11pm or so and finally went to bed.

In the morning it was my moms birthday!!! 

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Lindsay and I and Debbie Donaldson gave her her present which was a cricut cartridge that she had been wanting. She was thrilled! We continued to scrap through the day and I won 2 prizes from the drawing so I picked out something, on my second time winning, that my mom wanted since it was her day. Then my mom and I went on a walk around the grounds of the cabin. It was such a nice night out, a bit chilly but still nice. We walked all the way around the little pond that was out front. There was a little spot of sand and canoes that we could use, we didn't but it would have been way fun!!

We also all got these little pumpkins that we had to decorate with the stuff that we brought and they were going to do a contest the next morning!!

We did a turkey and a spider.

We didn't win but it was still way fun to decorate.

Home made Nuts About Berry Salad!!! Yummy!!!!!

That night we decided to take advantage of the Hot Tub since tomorrow was go home day. So we took a break from scraping and headed out to relax!!!

My mom had a great birthday and we all had such a fun day!!! We got lots of pages done!!

We went to bed and woke up early to get more pages going since we had to leave at 4pm.... Sad!!!

This day was great as well. All while we scraped we had movies going in the back ground, did the pumpkin contest, and of course what would a vaca be with out a massage!!??

Our little deer friends!!

My mom won the candy corn contest and won a idea book!!! She is so lucky.

The crew!!!

We had so much fun and all did around 10-15 spreads. We ate way to much great food and relaxed so much!! We didn't want to leave and was super bummed out when it was time to pack up. They might be doing it again in the spring and if so We WILL be there!! We can not miss a party!!