Rain Storms aren't supposed to be in the house!!

Saturday morning at like 6:30 am, I hear Matt get out of bed, and then I hear him say, What the crap!! So I jump out of bed, run out into the family room, and there is water dripping from the arch way that seperates the kitchen and family room. There are huge paint bubbles just filled with water. Matt runs upstairs and the upstairs bathroom is flooding. The toilet had been overflowing for who knows how long, and had just kept running, which was making water just flow into the bathroom, through the floors, and leaking through the ceiling in the kitchen. The floor in the kitchen is totally soaked, as well as the carpet that seperates the kitchen from the family room. We are grabbing towels and coolers to have the water drip into. It is a total mess.
I call my mom and dad and have them come out to our house with fans. Matt ended up calling some neighbors in our ward who own RestoreMasters, they are kind of like Utah Disaster cleanup, and asking if we can borrow some of their fans.
She told us what we needed to do to start the process of clean up. She told us to get rid of all the padding from where the carpet is wet, and just throw it away, because it is no longer good.
So we had to lift up the carpet in the family room, cut out the pad, lay the carpet back down and have fans drying the carpet.
Upstairs, we didn't think it was that bad, but when we lifted the carpet in Alexa's room, where it connects to the upstairs bathroom, the pad is completely soaked, like you could ring it out it was so wet. So we did the same thing to her room.
The water even went downstairs into the basement. Thank goodness our basement isn't finished yet.
We have had the fans running all day Saturday, through the night, and have still had them on all day today. Our neighbor said that her husband will come out on Monday, and let us know the cost of damages. We really hope that it hasn't ruined the sheet rock, and that we will just have to repaint and replace the carpet pad.
So we've done all that we can do, and now we just wait and see what the next step is. I took some pictures of some of the damage on the ceiling, and archway.
We are just so happy that it wasn't worse than it was, and that we weren't out of town or anything like we were last weekend.

Memorial Day Weekend!

For Memorial Day, we went down to our cabin in Fairview with our friends, the Dabo's. We had lots of fun. It rained all day on Saturday, so we just ended up staying in the cabin playing games, while the kids ran around the house making up their own games. In between the rain, we were able to take rides on the fourwheelers, which the kids LOVE!! At night we would put the kids to bed, and Jamie, Tyler, Matt, and I would sit up playing games till way past my bedtime!!
We had so much fun having our friends come with us. I totally forgot my camera, but Jamie is so good, so took pictures for me!!

This is the cutest picture of Alexa!! I love it!
Alex
Hannah and Alexa
Liv and Drew
Makenna and Liv
Matt and me
Makenna and Liv again!
Matt with Hannah and Alexa on four wheeler
Tyler with Drew on motorcycle!!

There are no pictures of Jamie, I guess that's what happens when you are the one with the camera!! Thanks for coming with us Dabo's, we loved having you!!

Vehicle Day at School!!

At Makenna's school today, they had Vehicle Day. It was a career education activity where the kids at school had an opportunity to learn about different jobs and the "vehicles of that trade." They had asked for volunteers to bring cars/trucks that have to do with the parents jobs. They were asked to bring them to school for the kids to look at and learn about. Since Matt works with trucks, he took one of the trucks that they have on the lot, called The Lone Star to her school.
All the kids at school were able to get inside it and look around. Makenna loved having her dad come to school and show the truck. After the "Truck Show" was over, Matt brought the Lone Star home to show Hannah, Alexa, and me. It was huge. The tire was taller than Hannah. I was really glad that Matt was able to bring the truck and show it to Makenna's school. Makenna was so excited to tell everyone, that her dad was coming with a truck.
I took some pictures of the kids in and by the truck, when Matt came home with it!!

My little Shoe Princess!!

I just have to say, Alexa LOVES shoes!! It doesn't matter if they fit her or not, she wants them on her. From the moment she wakes up in the morning, she turns to her closet and says, "Shoe", then she goes and gets me two shoes to put on her. Most of the time they are the same, but sometimes she ends up with two different shoes.
Sometimes she has her sister's shoes on and sometimes it is even Matt's or mine. I just think it is so funny how much she loves them, and wants them on her all the time.
Here are pictures of her with Makenna's cinderella shoes on. I couldn't get a good picture, cause she wouldn't look at me, but these are cute anyway....

The Girls Finally Got Their Wish.....

...Well for 12 days at least!! My sister, Stefanie went to Hawaii and asked us to dog tend for 12 days. I wasn't sure how well I was going to like it, but Harley (the dog) actually did really good.

The first night was not fun, Harley woke us up 3 times in the night and we were trying to find out where to have her sleep. I think it was just the first night jitters, because every night after that, she just slept under Makenna's bed upstairs, and didn't come down till 7:00 am. We did end up taking off Harley's collar at night because that first night it was so loud when she would shake her head.

The girls really loved having Harley here with us, they played with her outside and loved having a dog. I think they are going to miss not having her at our house anymore. I am just glad that she didn't have any accidents on the carpet and she wasn't up barking all night. She really is a good dog, and we really loved having her.

Don't get me wrong, I am still not ready to have a full time dog of our own, but it was fun while it lasted, and at least now, I know that I could handle a dog living with us!!