Weekend musings

It has been such a lovely weekend, with awesome fall weather and huge milestones for my little man. On Friday, Bodster took his first full crawl! I am so happy because 1. I got it on camera and 2. Papa was there to witness it! How fun! He has been exploring a lot this weekend, though not crawling like a crazy man yet.

Friday afternoon we headed to our favorite play place with some friends. Treehouse Discovery is one of Bodster's favorite places with such fun toys!

Nursing fun!

On Saturday we had to deal with the aftermath of the mess our renters left us. Andrew and I own a duplex that we rent out and we had to FINALLY evict some tenants because they were not paying their rent on time or in full every month. Plus they were destroying the property and we finally said enough is enough! Well, when we went in the inspect the place we found it absolutely unlivable- trash and old food everywhere (even on the walls and floor), the kitchen cabinets USED to be white were now a disgusting black, the carpet was filled with cat urine, holes in every door and walls, tiles in the floor were broken, missing windows, missing refrigerator, bathrooms were black with mold, and fly traps all over the house just filled to the brim with bugs. I cannot fathom how someone could live like this. It looked like they never cleaned once the entire 4 years they lived there. Plus they had 2 young kids crawling around in this filth. We ended up calling the police for theft and vandalism. The police officer's jaw dropped when he walked in. He couldn't believe what he saw. After he took a report and left we got a call saying the tenants were trying to flee and they had them pulled over at a gas station. Actually was a coincidence because they were pulled over for having so much JUNK in their trailer.

We rushed over to the gas station and sure enough they were trying to get away. One guy was even arrested for having a warrant out for his arrest, this guy also threatened to beat the living day lights out of my husband just minutes before. Unfortunately I had Bodie with us as well so I tried to stay out of everything but it was hard not to ask them how they could do this to us. There is at least a couple grand in damages that WE have to fix and clean. It's almost a health hazard in there! Plus We found out that there were 9 people living in there, only 2 were authorized to live there. Oh geeze. I don't know what we will do from here. Probably hire someone to take care of the trash and furniture that was just left there. We have new tenants waiting to move in but there is no way I will allow them to live in such conditions. We will definitely be checking in more often to the condition of the place. No more allowing people to destroy our property! I will post pictures of the place once I get them off Andrew's phone. In the meantime, here is B and I just chilling :)

Today, September 29, is Bo's 8 month birthday! He has been kinda cranky today but I did get a few shots in before he conked out for a much needed nap.