.:back to normal:.

okay, so maybe not completely back to normal, but close. we were able to come back to our apartment one week after the incident happened. but it wasn't an easy transition back to our normal routines. i'll tell you why.

tuesday night was our last night in the hotel since we had to check out wednesday by 11:00. alisa and i stopped by our apartment after our weekly hot tub club, and NOTHING had been done with the carpet. let me remind you they were supposed to replace the carpet in three rooms. all of which were full of furniture. alisa and i knew it was not going to be an easy task since they would have to take everything out, do the carpet, put everything back in, and repeat two more times. we informed the owner about the lack of work and went on our way back to the hotel.

wednesday after work we were able to come home to our apartment, finally. but that sigh of relief when i said finally was not really a sigh of relief. we came home to a mess. alisa had a small bookshelf in her room that was completely destroyed, and i mean completely. our wall, which had just been fixed, was damaged, and my dresser was dropped and broken in several different places.

i was in shock that this all happened. i could not even imagine how someone could be so careless with another person's belongings. the next day we were on it to get things taken care of. ange called the carpet company and they apologized and said they've never had anything like this happen before. [yeah, that makes us feel better.] but he said he would replace alisa's bookshelf and my dresser. which, is good because my dresser that they destroyed costs $300. by friday they had brought and assembled my new dresser and things in the simpson house were pretty much back to normal.

enough about our crappy apartment though!

great news, karen had her baby! she came 15 days early, on january 19 at 12:47 am and weighed a whopping 9 lbs. 4 oz. they named her mckenna jane. i think she is absolutely beautiful and i love her so much already!

karen, mckenna, and aunt kami

me and baby girl, mckenna

me, mckenna, and kaleb. "say, monster trucks"