Welcome to GiGanToR!
For those of you that will never actually make it out to our new home to see what we’ve
accomplished.
I use the word
accomplished
because it was a real task!
Here it is!!
A bit of history first…we purchased a foreclosed home for a smokin’ deal. “Why such a great deal?” you ask? Although it was in much better shape than quite of few of the other foreclosures we had seen it was in desperate need of a make-over. The previous owners had 7, count them, S-E-V-E-N indoor Labrador Retrievers. (And yes, one was a puppy.) Carpets had been ripped to shreds at every seam, base boards had been treated as teething toys, heaven only knows what the myriads of stains on ALL of the carpets were. However, trying to be reasonable...were just going to re-floor the house. Then some good friends told us of a home that they had purchased and only re-floored to get rid of the “doggies”. Their advice was that once the “new carpet” smell had subsided, the “doggie” smell returned. HOW? WHY? Dog oil, on the walls. You know, it’s not so strange, humans have greasy hair too! Hence, the paining of the entire almost 4, 000 square feet of Gigantor!
I will not try and frighten you by the telling of how much dog hair we actually vacuumed out of the house, or how the said hair was found in the uncanniest places (every singe kitchen cabinet and drawer), or how when we pulled out the old carpet the hair had worked it’s way under the old carpet and pad to find a new home, or how horribly stinky, doggie, disgusting the house smelled. But I WILL tell you of how we vacuumed, bleached, cleaned, bleached, painted, bleached, and worked our tail ends off…did I mention the bleach? To sanitize our now beautiful, clean, doggie free home! And if you know me at all, you know that when I mention the bleach I do not mean it lightly...every square inch of the house…including the walls and windows...bleached and beautifully clean!!!
When we went to pick up Jackson from the Tueller's house..this is what we found...sound asleep. The only thing that kept him from going all the way under was the food storage under the bed! I had to wake him for his Dr's appointment right then and found that he had burst his other ear drum...poor baby! 
Thank Heaven for Modern Medicine!
...and shoes (we needed those for soccer anyway) the sandals were NOT cutting the mustard! 
The highlights of the trip were... #1, of course, the farewell where Eric spoke wonderfully and Alexa sang a beautiful song, #2 the night before the farewell when we went to their stake production of Beauty and the Beast where James was main stage crew and Jan conducted the orchestra pit, #3 running an playing with our cousins, #4 flying papre airplanes #5 going on long walks as a family outside #6 the Tulips in everyone's yards and #7 playing games and building things at Grandma's (then taking pictures to show her because she was ill in bed.) 
For those of you that will never actually make it out to our new home to see what we’ve
At least he's got the general idea...one egg, not bad for a first timer!
Clyde and Seth
Clyde-ster
Jack-et
Monte Birk
Adele, Reid, Bailee, Monte Birk, Grandpa, Clyde, Seth, Robert Jr.
This is Robert Jr.'s creation...
