$&@# Water!!!

"When it rains, it pours", right? I would agree 100%! A week and a half ago our water heater finally died and flooded my salon. Granted the thing had a very long life...18 years which is amazing I hear for a water heater. Anyway, Rob had to rip up the flooring to let the water dry up and then re-lay the floor. Meanwhile...as he is working on the floor, Fisher decides to spray the TV with water until it drowns and dies also! We had to wait a couple of days to get a new water heater(of course it happened on a weekend) when the guy came to remove and install, he accidentally left something on and water came pouring out of the hot water pipe and guess what?....flood all over again! So up came the floor...AGAIN! Thrilling! We had some uneventful days and then today came:/! Heston woke up on the very wrong side of bed this morning and decided to make my life miserable. He finds it amusing. I couldn't do anything right and when I wouldn't react to his fit throwing he plugged up the downstairs bathroom sink and turned on the water! YAY!!! I was doing my sis in-laws hair and just thought that he had found something to occupy him and was washing his trucks in the sink. Something my boys do a lot. Well, then Fisher walks into the salon and says, "Mom, there is a lot of water in the bathroom"! Sure enough...FLOOD! The water had been running for at least 20 minutes. What the Heck people? I didn't even know how to react. The fan is still going trying to dry out the carpet in the hall. And then tonight we had to tare out our counter tops and while Rob was unhooking the sink he left something on....guess what again? He was almost done when water came shooting out of a pipe and drenched him and the rest of the kitchen! I think the water gods have it out for us! So, out of all this we have gotten a new water heater, replaced the 32' TV with a 13"...see how the kids like that, gained more patience through the actions of my son, and by the end of the week should have new counter tops. I am thinking that usually after the pouring rain the sun shines and a rainbow appears:) I am waiting for that rainbow!

What a weekend!

We have had a busy holiday weekend. It may take a while to recover. I feel like I have a hangover from all the excitement and fun;) We were so lucky to have my G-parents and my brother and his cute family in Richfield. And we are always so lucky to have Rob's family here. It's nice to have family so close and they are always great about being to all of the family events! Gillyin was baptised on Saturday and it was neat to have more of my family able to be there. It was a special day for her. Saturday night she came upstairs and she crying. So, I said to her "You're tired. You need to go to bed." She said, "No mom, you know how you cry sometimes when you are happy?" and I said, "Yes, is that why you are crying?"..."Yeah, I have had the best day" she said. It was so sweet to sit there and spend a minute to reflect on her day. I then got my journal out and was thinking I might find something about the day I was baptised, but couldn't. I did find a letter I wrote to Gilly when she turned one. So I read her the letter and then we both were crying. She has grown up. I am so blessed to be her mother. I look at all my kids and wonder...why did they pick me? I guess I need to learn a lot more than I ever thought I did, because they teach me so much about life...especially about LOVE. My Gilly-girl is a keeper for sure...I am so proud of her and the young lady she is.
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My wonderful sister in-law took her pictures:) They turned out beautiful! Thanks, Em! Check out her blog...Simple Moments Photography!