Well, we have been working hard this week.  Sarah says if she has to move one more piece of furniture she will DIE.  We still haven’t even quite recovered, but we are quite pleased with the results.  Even with all the work, it has been worth it.  After eleven years in our house and who knows how many years before we moved in, we have new carpet!

Isn’t it lovely?  We all think so.  We take off our shoes to squish our toes in its softness.  We lay on the floor.  I’ve seen the girls making snow angels!  The house is warmer, quieter, and LOOKS GREAT!  We are in love.

It was a lot of work, though.  (The carpet man said that some people replace their carpets every 2 or 3 years.  Do you think that is true???  Besides the monumental expense, just look at the work involved!  That’s not the path for me, I’m afraid, thank you very much!)  We had to move everything out of our front room and hallways for Thursday and then move everything out of our bedroom and closet (!!!!) for Friday, not to mention start moving things back into the front room, etc.  Benjamin’s room is still pretty full of stuff from our bedroom, but at least our bed is back and our dresser . . .

We will be getting the backroom done, too, but it will be in a different carpet.  That carpet has been ordered and we have to wait for it to come in.  I can’t wait!  (But I am glad for the recuperation time in between!  LOL!)

On Saturday, we left behind our in-process house and went up to Salt Lake City to watch Sarah in the Fun Shot contest at Energy Solutions Arena where the Jazz play!

It was very cool.  Sarah did well and competed with the other finalists.  She didn’t win but we took lots of pictures and they got free tickets to the Jazz game that night!  Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik came to watch and Grandpa Skinner.  We even got to see Uncle Todd!  That part was probably the most fun!

  There we all are in the $600 seats!  (Or something like that!)  The tickets for the game were in the upper balcony but for the Fun Shot we got to sit down where the rich people usually sit.  Fun, fun!

After the contest, we went over to the outdoor mall and got some food.  Savannah, the twins, Bethany, Benjamin, and I headed home after that while Kevin, Sarah, Mariah, Megan, and Sarah’s friend Allyson stayed at the mall and waited for the Jazz game that night.  It was a fun way to finish our busy week!