We've moved! We now live at 9711 Diamond Cliff Dr. Helotes, TX. When we moved to Texas we didn't have a place to stay and were in a hotel until we found a place. We only had 8 days that Southwest Research would pay for the nice hotel and it was Thanksgiving. We needed to find a rental fast! We had plans to meet up with a Realtor the day after we arrived so we could find a place that day in order for our background checks to go through before Thanksgiving but at the continental breakfast both Raelyn and Ella threw-up everywhere. Welcome to Texas. Sorry people who were sitting next to us! We didn't really have a choice. We had to get a rental that day so even though they threw up a time or two more each, we prayed and put them in the car. We looked at several rentals but since I didn't know the area we stayed in the Helotes area. All were pretty expensive but we found one that was the cheapest and looked like the floor plan would work for our family. Since the kids were outside sick in the car we just ran through the house quickly. We didn't try faucets, the garage door, or look in cupboards. Our mistake!
When we moved in the day before Thanksgiving and opened cupboards we realized the place was filthy. There was all sorts of trash in the cupboards. They had someone clean the surfaces so it didn't look bad but when you opened the cupboards your hand stuck them because all of the sticky messes! Yuck! We spent the whole first day cleaning not unpacking! I was 7+ months pregnant with Bryce and was exhausted when we finally started unpacking that night at midnight. We had movers pack up all our belongings in Florida and they had touched all of our clean dishes so before putting them away I decided to run them through the dishwasher. When we opened the dishwasher up we found it with a few inches of standing water and filthy. Covered in green mold! YUCK! At this point my feet were killing me and the landlord was off for the 5 day holiday weekend. They had closed down at noon the day we moved in. Larry and I looked at each other and decided to just start the dishwasher empty to see if it would clean itself. We then sat down and put our weary feet up. About 3 minutes later Larry hears water running and we run into the kitchen only to find nasty green water pouring out of the dishwasher onto the kitchen floor and into all of our kitchen boxes! AAAAAUGH! We stayed up until 2 a.m., first finding the boxes with towels, then cleaning up the water and lastly emptying the wet boxes. Pregnant, I was soooo tired. I finally got into the shower at 2:30 but when I went to hang up my towel the towel rack fell to the ground with my clean towel. :(. No, worries there is another towel rack in the other part of the bathroom. I hung it up there and jumped in the shower. After showering I went to retrieve my towel and the upwards force on the rack made it topple to the ground! Really! By this time we were laughing to keep ourselves from crying. There is an 80's movie called the Money Pit. A couple buy this beautiful house and it ends up falling apart and costing them a fortune. We realized that we had moved in to the money pit!! Glad it wasn't our money pit! In the first week of moving in, the garage door collapsed on itself twice, we found that the cold water didn't work in the kids bathroom, there was a whole in the kids shower letting water into the wall behind it, and squirrels lived in the attic. Oh, I was glad we didn't own that house and glad it was a short term rental! But, what a rough beginning to moving into a new town.
When we moved in the day before Thanksgiving and opened cupboards we realized the place was filthy. There was all sorts of trash in the cupboards. They had someone clean the surfaces so it didn't look bad but when you opened the cupboards your hand stuck them because all of the sticky messes! Yuck! We spent the whole first day cleaning not unpacking! I was 7+ months pregnant with Bryce and was exhausted when we finally started unpacking that night at midnight. We had movers pack up all our belongings in Florida and they had touched all of our clean dishes so before putting them away I decided to run them through the dishwasher. When we opened the dishwasher up we found it with a few inches of standing water and filthy. Covered in green mold! YUCK! At this point my feet were killing me and the landlord was off for the 5 day holiday weekend. They had closed down at noon the day we moved in. Larry and I looked at each other and decided to just start the dishwasher empty to see if it would clean itself. We then sat down and put our weary feet up. About 3 minutes later Larry hears water running and we run into the kitchen only to find nasty green water pouring out of the dishwasher onto the kitchen floor and into all of our kitchen boxes! AAAAAUGH! We stayed up until 2 a.m., first finding the boxes with towels, then cleaning up the water and lastly emptying the wet boxes. Pregnant, I was soooo tired. I finally got into the shower at 2:30 but when I went to hang up my towel the towel rack fell to the ground with my clean towel. :(. No, worries there is another towel rack in the other part of the bathroom. I hung it up there and jumped in the shower. After showering I went to retrieve my towel and the upwards force on the rack made it topple to the ground! Really! By this time we were laughing to keep ourselves from crying. There is an 80's movie called the Money Pit. A couple buy this beautiful house and it ends up falling apart and costing them a fortune. We realized that we had moved in to the money pit!! Glad it wasn't our money pit! In the first week of moving in, the garage door collapsed on itself twice, we found that the cold water didn't work in the kids bathroom, there was a whole in the kids shower letting water into the wall behind it, and squirrels lived in the attic. Oh, I was glad we didn't own that house and glad it was a short term rental! But, what a rough beginning to moving into a new town.
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