Monday, November 26, 2007

100 Gallons of Water

After a wonderful week with my parents for Thanksgiving, Brian and I walked into our house and discovered that our basement had flooded. Yikes! One of the sprinkler pipes broke in four places (thanks to the people who owned this house before us... they did a good job of jerry-rigging the system and had pipes above ground). Anyhow, we walked in and saw about 2 feet of water in the window well of our office and buckets of water flowing all over our computer and our desk! Not quite how we had invisioned coming home.

Well, Service Master has been at our house for the past two days (great guys!) and have done a ton of work to help us! They vacuumed up 100 GALLONS of water from our basement!!!! All of the carpet padding is gone, along with both bathroom vanities and a number of walls. We had to move everything into our garage... thanks to all our friends here! And we probably won't be able to move stuff back down for a month!

God really has given us both peace about this whole situation though, and I find myself strangely calm. I just look at our family and feel so blessed that we are together and that we have sweet Avery. Our house is just "stuff" and I know it will all get taken care of. If you are reading this, I would love to ask if you would say a quick prayer for us and this situation. We found out that insurance will probably not cover any of the costs... which may be anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 after all is said and done. You can pray for three things: Peace, Provision, and Thankfulness to be true of our lives.

Here are a few pics of our basement which is a total disaster area right now...



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Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Tummy Time

Avery rolled over from her stomach to her back on October 31st! Brian and I were so excited to see her learn something new and were cheering loudly while she just stared at us blankly like, "What are you guys so excited about?" She continues to hold that head up high too... so fun.

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Reading Together

In the midst of exhausting sleep training (which we started today... yes, I am crying a lot and trying to distract myself by doing various things around the house)... there are some sweet moments with my daughter that I cling to. I know she doesn't know what the heck I am reading about, but she seems to enjoy looking at the pictures. Brian snapped a couple of shots just before bedtime.

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Grammy's Visit




Brian's mom came out for a few days last week and had a great time! I think Avery was a little thrown off after she left not having someone around who would play with her all the time. Pin It