Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Hi! We're new to the neighborhood, please don't think we're criminals!

Nearly a year ago, we closed on our first home!  It was such an exciting time, our families joined us for the first tour of our new home that evening.  Afterward, we locked up, a little too well, and were leaving for the night.  On our way out hubby noticed we'd left a light on inside, so he went to go back in the front door to shut it off.  We had only taken the key to the front door with us, because all 4 doors to our house take different keys!  Well, I had locked the storm door from the inside to keep the kids from running outside while the door was open.  When we locked up, we shut the front door not thinking a thing about it, and we went out through the garage. 

We were locked out of our own new house!

Well, we left the light on and decided we'd figure something out Saturday morning.

Saturday morning we armed ourselves with a plan and our break-in tools to get those keys out of our house!  Fortunately, I had remembered that I couldn't get the kitchen window locked while we were there.  We used a flat piece of metal to pry the window open.  We knew the keys were laying on our "island" across from the kitchen sink, and the window is above the kitchen sink.  We carefully placed our ladder to reach the window around our air conditioning unit, and climbed up armed with 10' of PVC piping with a sturdy metal hook electrical taped to the end of it.  Our window isn't big enough for a full size adult to fit through, and I didn't trust putting one of our 3 year old boys inside.  I foresaw getting them in and stuck inside running around an empty house with us still locked out!  We very carefully feed the piping in through the window, hooked the keys that were laying on the counter across the kitchen, and pulled them out to safety! 

In our new neighborhood at 7:30 in the morning on the first weekend we own the house, we were quite worried our neighbors would think we were robbing the neighborhood and call the police!  And we wonder now why so few of the neighbors talk to us...!

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