New Mexico - cont

So, I can't help but finish the stories I started about our initial move to this fine state. Back on to the poop water in the house. The 'dryforce' guy who smells of smoke and mold comes into our house to set up machines to dry to poop water out. He pulls up the carpet and runs wires all through our house. If any of you know Tyler you know this is not going to fly for three days so we call the property manager and tell her she needs to help us out with a hotel. It wouldn't be an issue if it were just us but we have the kids to think about. She trys to blame this all on us and say had we had the lines run it wouldn't have happened. So she refused. We had to go anyways because I couldn't be there knowing the kids were breathing the fumes in.

Anyhow, we came home to find our house 115 degrees from the heating machines placed in our room. We just finished paying off our furniture a few months ago... came home to find the candles that were on decorative plates MELTED all over our dresser. Not to mention our unity candle from our wedding ( which is irreplaceable). So our expensive dresser is ruined to this day.

Now comes the smoke. Tim and I are sitting around on our bed ( which remember is in the living room) and we start to smell smoke when the swamp cooler kicks on. We go outside and you can't see the mountain that is 1/2 a mile away. We have no idea what is going on and I get online to see what I can find and apparently smoke from a wildfire in Arizona is coming into the city. And this is bad for a number of reasons. The air quality is so bad that they say you can't go outside. So now I am stuck in the poop water house for weeks. We can't turn our swamp coolers on beacuse it just pulls the smoke into the house so the temp in our house starts to get up to 85 and UP. We have no A/C. Only this swamp cooler so we are burning up all the time. The air quality is so bad they say it can cause permanent breathing problems for children ESPECIALLY young infants. :( Welcome home Heberts.

Stupid New Mexico

Let me just lay it out for all my devoted THREE readers of my blog. The A-bears hate New Mexico. At least this one does.

I am not the gripe and moan type on facebook. Frankly people like that annoy the crap out of me. But let me just enlighten you on our time here.... I think I am near the 'lets laugh about this' stage but not really. Who are we kidding. I'm still bitter.

We move into the house and take a look around. At first glance I think, well alrighty its an old house but they did a superperb job remodeling. I don't notice that Tim is trying to keep me away from the back yard. In spite of his efforts I have to eventually go out there to see what the dog is doing out there.

Behold what I find:

A rabbit cage. Filled with poop. House has been vacant over a year. Hey, great housewarming present. One year old poop. Welcome to New Mexico guys.

Nails. I don't think I can accurately show you how big these suckers were. A good 4 inches. All over the yard. A birthday present for Tyler perhaps. Death trap backyard.

A shed. Innocent enough. Filled with electrical wire and ....5 gallon drums of used motor oil. Without a lid. Present for Bradley? Nothing says welcome  baby like a toxin

Backyard full of stickers. Not even little annoying ones that stick to your shoelaces. These suckers poked clear through a flip flop and drew blood. Who am I on now Tim? Present for him ... he wears flip flops a lot.

Now, overlooking the danger zone backyard I figure well. Let's just stay inside where it is safe. Cue the poop water. Yes, we don't have enough rabbit poop in the backyard how about all our neighbors poop in our house. YAYYY!. And on a Friday night at 10pm no less. Its ok, lets just sleep in the living room. It will only be a few nights. Next morning in comes the carpet man. What does he do? Sprays lots of chemicals with the world CIDE at the end. CIDE= poison. Just what my 6 week old baby needs!! Horray carcinogens for all.

Meanwhile 3 weeks later we still look like this:

Knock Knock, who could be. Its the bug man. Come here nice Texans let me show you these blackwidows living in your front yard. And tell you about the mouse pee virus that is deadly if you step on the pee. Excited yet? Here let me show you roaches all in the house. Oh, you are sleeping on the floor you say?

Meanwhile I spend four weeks being afraid a spider is going to kill my tiny baby and I will wake up with a roach in my mouth. FUN TIMES. I think that is enough bitterness for the day. Back soon with part #2. And the fun doctors we have seen here.

Tyler's Birthday

We had plans for a big party in Austin with all of Tyler's friends from school and elsewhere but that couldn't happen. It makes me feel bad but I know it will be ok. Instead we went to Chuck E Cheese and then played outside! Tyler really didn't want to have anything to do with Chuck E. We got him some legos, dinosaurs, animals, sunglasses and the most annoying sounding fish game ever! :) Nana and Papaw got him a swing set!  I made him a mickey mouse cake as well.

Poo Water

Well our first week here hasn't been so good.

We were eating dinner and doing a load of laundry and heard a gurgle sound! Tim goes into the restroom and comes back and says " the showers are full of poo water". Lo and behold the sewer backed up. We called the property manager and couldn't get ahold of her. Tim had the owners daughters phone number so he called her. Rotorooter came out and took care of the problem and said it was a large clump of roots. The next day the carpet people came out and set up fans and a heating element and pulled up the carpet. There were cords all over the house, machines and tacks. We decided this was not a safe place for Tyler and we needed to go to a hotel. I got online and did it on priceline and Tim called the property manager about repayment.

When speaking with the property manager she tried to turn the situation on us! She said that she had told Tim of orders to get a plumber out to service the swamp cooler, fix the toilet and and apparently run the lines. We were never told to run the lines so we had not been persistant with the plumber. She then goes on to blame us and say had the lines been run this would not have happened and she would not pay our hotel and was lucky she wasn't charging us for the repairs. I should also mention that the property manager is the owners daughter...yeah.

We had a nice time at the hotel. Tyler loved going to the pool and swimming so there is the bright side to the weekend. We also went to Trader Joes and Sunflower Market to look around!

We got back to the house to find the bedroom at least 110 degrees! Upon looking around the candles had melted all over our dresser. Including our unity candle that can't be replaced. I was afraid the dresser was ruined but thanks to google I found what to do to get the wax safely off and it looks good as new.

The plumber came by yesterday and said he has orders to run the washer line and told me that EVEN HAD HE COME AND RUN THAT THE SEWER BACK UP WOULD HAVE HAPPENED REGARDLESS. Safe to say I was not a happy camper. I emailed the property manager about the situation and asked for hotel payment. I had a hard time sending it because I can't be rude/demanding etc. The house was also dirty when we arrived. The floors, sinks etc were all dirty and I let her know that wasn't really acceptable in the email as well. I haven't heard from her yet.

In the meantime we are all camping out in the living room until the bedroom is repaired.

I am hoping my posts will be happier than this in the coming weeks!!

Here we goooooo....

So we arrived here Sunday and saw our house for the first time! I have to give some major credit to my dear hubby Tim for getting so much done already!

I am hoping to keep up with this a little more than any of my other blogs!!!

Pictures of the house will be coming soon hopefully once we at least get the pictures up!