Skip September, Welcome October!
* For Labor Day weekend, Keith, Gavin, and I took a trip to Gatlinburg, TN with my bro/sis-in-law, Stephen and Ivey. If I had to rate this trip, I’d give it a 4. Our cabin was crawling with bugs, Gav’s ears were hurting from the altitude, we got stranded in Ober Gatlinburg thanks to some bad weather, and we kept comparing everything to our much more pleasant 2010 cabin trip. We weren’t completely miserable, but I don’t think we’ll be heading back to the mountains anytime soon.
* I slightly mentioned that we had trouble with the tenants that were living in our house, but I’ve never really explained. To sum it up, last July Keith and I moved to Atlanta for Keith’s job. We rented our home to what we thought was a nice family. Well, we were wrong. They rarely paid on time, and come July of this year they stopped paying all together. We filed for eviction, and one month later we regained possession of our house. We discovered a trashed, abandoned house. They turned off the electricity and left meat in the freezer…and the smell that came from our house was worse than anything I’ve ever smelled. Keith and I, along with many family members and friends worked very hard over the last month and a half to make our house a home again. We succeeded, and here is the finished product.
This was definitely a learning experience for us and I don’t think we’ll ever be renting property out again. If we can find them (apparently they’ve moved out of state), we’ll be taking the tenants to small claims court. We know that we’ll never recoup the money that we’ve spent fixing everything, but at least they’ll have consequences. There has to be consequences for behavior like this.
* On a much happier note, baby boy is CRAWLING! On September 19th I placed him on a blanket and said “Spread your wings little buddy! Crawl!” And he totally did! It was such an amazing moment and I am very proud of Gavin. He is getting so big and I am just cherishing every season with him.
* I am two weeks away from finishing two of the last three classes of my undergraduate career. My final class begins at the end of October and wraps up right before Christmas. And then that’s it! Undergrad will be DONE. Praise. The. Lord!!!
4 Comments
Legally Lovely
October 2, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Welcome back! I took most of September off from blogging too; we're hiatus buddies! hahaha. Glad to hear that you are SO CLOSE to being done with undergrad! I bet you are so excited to have that behind you. I hate to see what your tenants did to your house though. It looks really pretty now, but geeze, I can't imagine all the work you had to put into it. Small Claims Court them!!!
Brittany TYD
October 2, 2012 at 6:56 pm
WHOA! That's insane! I can't believe they would do that to you!
The house looks fantastic now. What a gorgeous home.
Lauren
October 2, 2012 at 6:56 pm
oh how frustrating with your tenants, but it sounds like you may be well on your way to finally being settled! I can't believe how big Gavin is getting, our kiddos are growing up too fast!
Al
October 16, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Lindsey, you gorgeous girl, how I have missed you!! So much to say to this post – but I am glad your house is back together and I think it looks fabulous! My favorite line of this post though is the second to last – "Off to spend some sweet time with my son" – you lucky lady. He's so handsome, doll, and to see him crawl? I'm in love.
Good luck finishing up your classes!!
Thinking of you!!
xoxo