Thank goodness for insurance...

Last Friday after I put Eric on the bus, I headed up stairs to talk to Andrew before he left for work. That was around 8:50, an few minutes later Andrew headed downstairs to leave. I heard him yelling for me, I came down stairs and saw Andrew walking through about 1/4 inch of water. The water was coming from our insta-hot water tap. Andrew shut the water off from under the sink. The water traveled from under the sink into the kitchen floor, bathroom, dining room, entry way and through some of our carpet. Thank goodness we were home, if it had be just an hour later we would not have been home and it would have been much worse. Andrew had a shop-vac from work, and so for the next 3 hours I was on my hands and knees with my face about an inch off the floor.

Our thoughts were if the hard wood floors look good after getting all the water up, we wouldn't need to do anything. Well, by the evening the boards were starting to pucker and the carpet was still damp. We called our insurance company Tuesday morning after getting the price of our deductible. Wednesday morning the floor company came out, and we just thought it was a simple, yeah your floors need to come up or a no they are fine. Oh were we in for it! Or this would be a long wait time once the estimate was made... nope. They said the floors needed to be removed, and fans would be brought in, THAT DAY! The damage was way worse that we expected it to be. The damage is thus... Hard wood kitchen floors,  pergo in the dining room, about 1 feet of laminate in the bathroom, the cabinet under the sink (which means the counter tops have to go in order to replace the cabinet.) Luckily they are able to save our carpet! So while we're at it, we are going to replace another corner cabinet, dishwasher (which was leaking) and our sink. Because I don't want the old insta-hot faucet taunting me everyday, because we are not replacing it. Insert extremely sad face -> HERE!!!!

So we are now sitting in a fan induced hot house, and the slight sound of industry fans will be here at least until Monday. Then picking out new flooring and counter tops, it's going to be about a month process. Thank God for insurance!!!

22 months

Tantrum...

Yesterday was a normal, walk to the boys to the bus and home again. Abbey wanted to go back outside, and when I said no, she started sliding backwards and ended up doing hand stands. And not just one hand stand but several; can we say she's following in her mommy's foot steps! Again I see a gymnast in our future!

Eric's Baptism

Follow up to our last post...

video of Eric's Baptism... (sound isn't the best, said by Auntie Diane (recording the video!))

Welcome to the Family... Of God!!!

Our oldest son Eric this past summer accepted Jesus into his heart! (that's a whole other story in itself!) The church children's leader Marta asked when we would like Eric to baptized; Eric's response was "I would like Uncle Scott and Auntie Diane to be home, so Uncle Scott could baptize me." As the schedule unfolded we knew that Dec. 30th would be the best day for this event! You see Scott and Diane are IBM missionaries in Russia and haven't been home in 14months. Thus scheduling was key! What a great way to start a new year! Andrew and I prepared Eric, went over what he would say, how he is now the light of the world, an example to his brother and sister. So last night we prepped his clothing and the speech he would say in front of our church family. I woke up this morning early to sing on our worship team to find Eric up and fully dressed! Mind you I get up on these days at 6:15am (yes it's a very long day, but I love it!) Andrew wanted to spend the morning with just Eric, so I took Ethan and Abbey with me to practice and first service. So with almost all Andrew's family, our church family, and great friends in attendance Eric was baptized. Showing to all what had transpired in his heart! Here's are the few pictures I could take through the happy tears...

Here is the speech Eric said before he was dunked... Hi I’m Eric, I just turned 9 last week! I became a Christian this past summer after seeing a skit at Kid-venture. The skit scared me, and made me THINK I might miss out on being with Jesus, my family and friends. I am glad I’m being raised in a loving Christian home, and have a wonderful Church family to hold me accountable. I’m not perfect and I’ve got a lot of growing to do, but I know God will not give me more than I can handle.

Questions from Uncle Scott before the dunking!

I just love the look on Uncle Scott's face in this shot...

Merry Christmas...

As always we had Family over for Christmas eve, dinner and presents! Last night was different, the boys as we were putting dinner on the table were trying not to fall asleep; it was about 6:30pm. After they finished their dinner they grabbed their blankets and plopped on the couch until we were ready for presents! Finally it was present time; and it did not disappoint them! They quickly ran up and put on their new jammies, and at 7:59 Eric came into the room and said it's bed time; good night! WHAT, who's kid are you??? The one night a year they want to go to bed! My mother in law, and Andrew's Aunt offered to help us wrap the kids presents because I was due at our church for the 11pm service to run the computer. HUGE help that was! I got home from church and the dishes were done, thanks to my wonderful husband. Kids were asleep, well until we got our toes in bed that is! They started stiring and finally came and slept in our room with us! I heard them get up around 7 and wait until said time of 7:30 (so Abbey could get her sleep!) No sooner did their alarm clocks go off did I hear the little girl knock sweetly on her door! SANTA came, after the tornado of lego's, wrapping paper, candy, and instructions a family nap was in order! Andrew and the boys were putting lego sets together the majority of the day! While Abbey and I snuggled of the sofa watching the Disney parade and Cinderella!