New Carpet!

We decided awhile back to get new carpet in our family room. Our house is about 13 years old now, and the family room is obviously the most used. The owners before us also had a dog and there were a lot of carpet stains in the family room that wouldn't come up (even with professional cleaning), not to mention it was just really thin and worn. Going to my parents' and sister's new homes and feeling their soft new carpet sealed the deal and made me finally start looking into it more seriously. We knew if we eventually move it will be a good thing to have done anyway, so we might as well get to enjoy it now! After shopping around, we found a good place that had the carpet we liked with a few colors in stock, so we went ahead and scheduled the installation. They came last Friday and moved the furniture and started ripping up the carpet when they found this:

 The dreaded black mold! They said we should probably get it taken care of before they put in the new carpet, so I called Jeremy in a panic (this was Friday morning around 10am), and he said he'd leave soon and stop at Lowe's on his way home and get it taken care of. The guys were super nice and said they would clear out all the tack strips, clean up the room and put the couches back for the weekend and come back Monday morning. We thought it would be a quick fix, but we were mistaken...

 Jeremy ripped off the window sill where we now noticed some signs of leakage and then started taking off the sheet rock to see the extent of the mold.

 He had to keep going quite a ways to find the end of it...

All the way up the side of the window to the top.

 Our family room became a war zone. He ended up having to cut out the 2x4s all along the side of the window and underneath and then replace them, along with the insulation and sheet rock. It was quite the ordeal! Jeremy was a champion and worked endlessly most of Friday and Saturday. Our ward had a Daddy Daughter campout Friday night, so he still went to that with the girls (they didn't stay over) and then we had a soccer game on Saturday, but other than that he was working! I even mowed the whole lawn on Saturday since he needed to be doing this. He luckily only had a little bit to do Sunday night, since we are big on keeping the Sabbath Day holy. The kids were really concerned about him working on Sunday, so we read them the scripture in Matthew 12 about the sheep in the pit, and explained that this was a unique circumstance that needed to get taken care of. It's not healthy for us to breathe in that black mold and we wanted to get it all taken care of before the carpet guys came back and the rain came back in a couple days.

 We got up really early Monday morning to discover that the paint I got late Saturday night did not match. I got the right color but I got a different brand, hoping to save time by going to a closer store, but it backfired. I decided I would get the boys off to school and then run to Ace Hardware to get the right paint, come back, and finish it up in time for the carpet guys to come at 9:30. Well, then I went to get Connor up and found him throwing up...

 There's always something, right? Haha. Well, being the awesome mother that I am, I stuck to my original plan and Connor and the girls and Connor's barf bowl came with me to the store. He threw up on the way there and on the way back (I let he and Anna stay in the car while I ran in - it's a really small store in a small area) and then I promised him he could lay down the rest of the day. He continue throwing up every 15 minutes or so for the next few hours and I got the painting done! Poor baby. He was a good sport. I finished it up and hammered the baseboard back in place about 15 minutes before the guys showed up. Whew!

 At one point I couldn't find Grace and then discovered her hijacking Connor's spot. Haha! She was just laying there quietly just like Connor had been. Silly goose.

 The kids were entertained watching them install the new carpet.

 And now it's done! Woohoo! It's a similar color to our last carpet. I probably would have liked something a little darker, but they only had three colors in stock - two light and one really dark brown, so being the cheapskate I am I picked one instead of special ordering. We're happy it blends with the rest of the carpet in the house though so it doesn't look too different. It has two colors in it too so it hides dirt really well and it's super soft and longer (all hard things to tell in this picture). We love it! Everyone has been on the floor much more lately and every time we walk onto it we are so happy we did it. And so glad our wall is taken care of!