Sophie and Kane are getting their own backyard

We will probably start moving this coming week.  I have a lot of things to do first, like cleaning out all of my parents furniture and stuff (that could take months lol).  The nice thing is I can really move at my leisure, because the house is mine, I don't have to worry about double mortgage payments.  We had an awful thing happen yesterday.  I went over to the house and found that a bunch of "crack heads" had broken in and had been going through everything and it appeared they had been sleeping there too.  They broke into one of the two garages and stole alot of my dad's tools, saws and things he wanted to give to his grandchildren.  I was horrified when I started to go in the front door and these people just started coming out with their arms full of my parents things.  Thank goodness we had removed all of the valuables from the house when we moved them to the retirement home, or it could have been much worse.  The woman I met coming out of the front door was carrying an expensive painting which I ripped out of her hands and kicked her out.  She wouldn't leave until I called the police.  I spent about 4 hours with the police going through everything but I was told there wasn't anything they could do, it was just a case of trespassing.  I said tresspassing, they broke into the main house and who knows what they took, and they stole tools, table saws, radial arm saws, etc. etc. from the garage.  The police said all they can do is try and track them down through pawn shop tickets.  I can't believe people would have the nerve to do something like that.  Well, we have rekeyed all the locks and luckily found the alarm codes to reset the alarms - so I hope it's safe for now, but I'm going get moved in as fast as I can.  I will be wonderful for the puppies to have a yard to play in though.