Woke up, sore, and still tired. Got dressed and went to the house. Figuring my kids would know where we were and my teenager would figure out that she needed to get kids up and dressed and fed for the day. Later found out that she spent most of the day on the neighbors couch with fever and chills, and cramps and the flu. Really? Is this really happening? I forgot to mention that our puppy got kind of pawned off on the Tait family and they have fallen in love with him and we will probably have to pry him from their fingers when this is all over, which makes me so sad that I am missing his puppy days and he loves them back but ever so grateful that that all worked out.
Went to the house by 8am and started with a bright light at the end of the tunnel. The cabinet guy was there and he basically told me that my cabinets were the best ever all the way down to the hinges which were at least $50 each and I could basically come to his showroom and pick whatever I wanted! I felt like I won on a gameshow for a few minutes. Got to make some changes that I've always wanted to change and that was kinda fun.
then I remembered that the week before I told a Sun City friend that I would help her brother move into his home so I gather my son, daughter, and Lane Tait and off we went. It took us over 2 hours to unpack the uhaul and I was more sore and tired after all that, then everything else. But it felt good to server. You should have seen "ryan" laughing when I told him I would be back in a couple hours, because I had to go help someone move. He was like "are you serious?" "do they have any idea what your going thru?" "I said, nope, see ya in a couple hours"
Grabbed some lunch at our loved Bella Pizza and then reality hit when "linda" said, hey can you come here please......and walked me out to the "wet" storage pod and showed me basically every piece of furniture that I owned was wet and gonna be put in the dumpster. Dont get me wrong......I am D.i's biggest buyer and I'm proud of it, our beds are from D.I. but our couches arent. They were new about a year and 1/2 ago but started falling apart. We called the company but they were out of business so we have hated those couches all along, not to heart broken there. But my mothers couch, and heirloom dresser and MY TREADMILLL! NO!!!!! She assured me it would all be replaced and in the back of my head I'm like - yeah right - I know how this works - I get a prorated price of what they determine the value to be which basically means I gotta buy a new treadmill with 1/2 the money. she said that my ins. company is really good to work with so dont worry about it.......I'll have to keep you posted in the end about all that, but anyway.......on the spotlight part of that - my mothers very expensive victorian furniture did not get a drop on it! An angel got very wet helping us out there!
So as the crew finished up the downstairs packing and i tryed to sort thru all the "stuff" like wet backpacks, and shoes, and clothes, and stereo's, and wii, and dvd';s, and all of it has to be written down, and itemized, and basically I have a 60 hour a week job for the next 2 months cut out for me.....not cool at all. And the laundry? Ew! Stinky rotten water laundry, coming out my ears but yet another bright spot!!! My new washer and dryer are fine and getting their workout!
Stayed the night at virgin river, not impressed, but so tired and stiff and sore and dealing with sick kids, that are tired too. We didnt care. We took hot showers and slept hard.
I know I'm forgetting tons of stuff. Like how many phone calls and careing and concerned people are. Once again, we are very humbled, and proud to have such great nieghbors, ward members, family, and a caring crew, and a great ins. company. Still looking for a rental, no one will do the short term. But hoping to sweet talk someone soon.
So basically its all trashed, fine, I'm over it. Today, the crew packed out my whole upstairs, boxed up my whole downstairs and we made arrangemnets for hotel and started making calls on renting a home for 4 months. Lesson learned here: If I would have gotten the ball rolling on this sooner, I could have gotten us into a house by the time Christmas came but not only was I not even aware that Christmas was sneaking up on us but I wasnt aware of the time frame we would be out, or the fact that insurance was getting us a rental.
So - by thurs. night we
Friday, December 23, 2011
Flood - Day 2
Wednesday - Dec. 21 (normally I would be going to work, preparing for young womens, and this week is Talia's 12th bday and she joins young womens!)
I called work yesterday and the were very understanding and willingly canceled my classes so I had one less thing to worry about. Woke up early and headed to the house to prepare for the madness. And it was. The head guy "ryan" introduced us to "linda" my new best friend. They brought a pack out crew and basically told me they would be packing every square inch of the house up. 2 giant storage pods would be delivered within the hour and in each room, the dry and wet stuff would be separated. The dry would go in one pod and the wet in the other - to be gone thru to see what was fixable and what would be claimed on insurance. Our ins. had okayed a complete demolition of the bottom floor and 1/2 demo on the upper floor. I started boxing stuff and he said, you dont need to do that, they are doing all that, you come here and lets talk. And we did. We talked about the smells, the floors, the walls, the demo, the replacement, the time period, and everything. Basically they had it all under control and would consult us when they needed a decision made. We spent the whole day there at the house making decisions on this and that, and tossing lots of stuff. The entire upstairs was boxed by the end of the day. Even down to the empty tilex bottle......... dont ask.
At 4:45 the R.s. brought an amazing dinner to the nieghbors and fed both our families and then i remembers that me and the young women were suppose to ring the Salvation Army Bell at Smiths Grocery at 5pm. So off we went. It was so good to get out of that house and everything that ws going on and sing some carols and spread some joy. Later someone gave us a giftcard for Walmart to help us with our expenses. What a blessing! And the young women even came after to help us haul boxes down the stairs and into the storage pod. See you serve one and many serve you back, its awesome!
Well we split up the family and crashed at a few different houses that night. The insurance said we could get a hotel but we werent mentally prepared to make the decision during business hours and ended up wherever we could go. soooooo many people have offered us their homes, their food, their love and helpl and support and I am so amazed at the awesome community we have! With all the stress and for me, not being able to run or workout, we feel a lot of soreness, neck stiffness and a little bit of the flu settling in. We crashed pretty hard that night but Kev and I both woke at 3am unable to sleep and talking about what we were going to do about Christmas, Talia's bday, and other things like, WHAT COLOR CARPET were we going to put back in? I wanted to close my eyes so bad, go back to sleep and wake up and have it be 2 days back and this never happend.......but I wasnt so lucky........i did however remember to pray and thank my father in heaven that we were all safe and we didnt have to spend Christmas iin the hospital or anything horrible like that , and that we had insurance, and for the gospel in our lives to give us the understanding that its really all just STUFF.
I called work yesterday and the were very understanding and willingly canceled my classes so I had one less thing to worry about. Woke up early and headed to the house to prepare for the madness. And it was. The head guy "ryan" introduced us to "linda" my new best friend. They brought a pack out crew and basically told me they would be packing every square inch of the house up. 2 giant storage pods would be delivered within the hour and in each room, the dry and wet stuff would be separated. The dry would go in one pod and the wet in the other - to be gone thru to see what was fixable and what would be claimed on insurance. Our ins. had okayed a complete demolition of the bottom floor and 1/2 demo on the upper floor. I started boxing stuff and he said, you dont need to do that, they are doing all that, you come here and lets talk. And we did. We talked about the smells, the floors, the walls, the demo, the replacement, the time period, and everything. Basically they had it all under control and would consult us when they needed a decision made. We spent the whole day there at the house making decisions on this and that, and tossing lots of stuff. The entire upstairs was boxed by the end of the day. Even down to the empty tilex bottle......... dont ask.
At 4:45 the R.s. brought an amazing dinner to the nieghbors and fed both our families and then i remembers that me and the young women were suppose to ring the Salvation Army Bell at Smiths Grocery at 5pm. So off we went. It was so good to get out of that house and everything that ws going on and sing some carols and spread some joy. Later someone gave us a giftcard for Walmart to help us with our expenses. What a blessing! And the young women even came after to help us haul boxes down the stairs and into the storage pod. See you serve one and many serve you back, its awesome!
Well we split up the family and crashed at a few different houses that night. The insurance said we could get a hotel but we werent mentally prepared to make the decision during business hours and ended up wherever we could go. soooooo many people have offered us their homes, their food, their love and helpl and support and I am so amazed at the awesome community we have! With all the stress and for me, not being able to run or workout, we feel a lot of soreness, neck stiffness and a little bit of the flu settling in. We crashed pretty hard that night but Kev and I both woke at 3am unable to sleep and talking about what we were going to do about Christmas, Talia's bday, and other things like, WHAT COLOR CARPET were we going to put back in? I wanted to close my eyes so bad, go back to sleep and wake up and have it be 2 days back and this never happend.......but I wasnt so lucky........i did however remember to pray and thank my father in heaven that we were all safe and we didnt have to spend Christmas iin the hospital or anything horrible like that , and that we had insurance, and for the gospel in our lives to give us the understanding that its really all just STUFF.
Flood - Day 1
So its Tuesday Dec. 20th about 4pm and we started trying to get the water out. Scooping, sweeping, mopping and nothing was working. I told Keven to stop and call the insurance company, they were still open and took care of us right away. They called a company but they were busy at other jobs in Panquitch and Kanab and said they were pulling guys from there but it would be a few hours. They sent a guy that came and started sucking water up with his big machine but as the night rolled on we realized that wasnt gonna cut it. I pulled open my drawer in my kitchen and it was completly full, so was the next, and the next, and the next. Even the pans in the bottom cupboard were full of water. The ceiling was starting to fall and he looked at me and stepped out and made a phone call. I caught some of the conversation....something like "worse than we thought" and "your gonna need more guys than that" and "nope its a complete demo". So I realized, we were gonna have to leave for a while. I facebooked that my house flooded and if anyone had any boxes I would love them. Pretty soon like 5 ladies showed up with boxes and tape and started boxing up my kitchen. I was in shock, love, humiliation, I dont know. Anyway - i sent my kids and the puppy next door and got to work. Pretty soon, a crew showed up and kicked everyone out and basically spent the night ripping out all possible flooring. About 10:30 we decided that was all we could do for the night and we slept at the neighbors with the kids.
Note to self: Thank Tim & Sue for coming from St. George and taking pictures like crazy and helping me "think". They told me to pack for 3 months. Get what you need for work, etc. for 3 months. Well I thought I did that but now we dont have retainers, contacts, razors, and basics like advil & toilet paper. Also, thank all those women that came in the night and helped. And all the ward members that hurried home from stake temple night to rescue me. And thank the Tait family for willingly adopting our puppy.
Note to self: Thank Tim & Sue for coming from St. George and taking pictures like crazy and helping me "think". They told me to pack for 3 months. Get what you need for work, etc. for 3 months. Well I thought I did that but now we dont have retainers, contacts, razors, and basics like advil & toilet paper. Also, thank all those women that came in the night and helped. And all the ward members that hurried home from stake temple night to rescue me. And thank the Tait family for willingly adopting our puppy.
Wpw its been a long time!
Has it really been that long since I posted last. Darn it, and this was going to be my journaling. I guess I'm gonna have to catch up. I got on here today because I have had a big event happen in my life and I want to blog daily about it so I can look back later and see all the things I've been thru and be grateful. So here we go:
Its Christmas time which is always intersting.....waiting for the kids to be out of school, planning and preparing for christmas and the new year, thinking about what to make for everyone, and our upcoming life. For instance, our kids are getting bigger so the Fisher Price toys dont cut it anymore....well I guess for Kate it would. But Tara is going to college soon and Taner is in high school so our thoughts have turned to NEEDS rather than WANTS. Tara NEEDS money and all Taner WANTS is money.....Talia, well, she's turning 12 but still wants Lalaloopsy......
Santa did bring us a new teacup yorkie Dec 10th so that has been exciting for us BUT Long story short, we didnt get pd. till the 24th so we havent done any shopping which oddly enough turned out to be a blessing.
The weekend of the 18th we went to Mesa to see a nephew come home from his mission and let the kids have a few days with the Mesa cousins. WE love it there and its always hard to come home. So of course we waited till the last minute to come home Tuesday Dec. 20th. We went to St. George to pick up our puppy before we came home to Mesquite and when we drove up in the driveway we immediately knew, something was wrong. There was a big puddle in the driveway and that doesnt happen unless there is a leak.........we jumped out of the car and ran to the door. Water was coming out of the seams of the walls and the front door out on the sidewalk and we knew we had trouble.
Our worst fears were confirmed as we opened the front door and stepped into 2 to 3 inches of water. We could hear water running but were sure from where. It was "raining" from the sheetrock on the ceiling so we knew it was upstairs. I ran up the stairs and the kids' bathroom was spraying water everywhere. After I got through the spray I found the hose behind the toilet was the culprit and reached down and turned the main supply for the toilet off. For a second I just stood there.....I could hear everyone freaking out and yelling and I just stood there in shock or denial or wahtever.
And then the mayhem began........
Its Christmas time which is always intersting.....waiting for the kids to be out of school, planning and preparing for christmas and the new year, thinking about what to make for everyone, and our upcoming life. For instance, our kids are getting bigger so the Fisher Price toys dont cut it anymore....well I guess for Kate it would. But Tara is going to college soon and Taner is in high school so our thoughts have turned to NEEDS rather than WANTS. Tara NEEDS money and all Taner WANTS is money.....Talia, well, she's turning 12 but still wants Lalaloopsy......
Santa did bring us a new teacup yorkie Dec 10th so that has been exciting for us BUT Long story short, we didnt get pd. till the 24th so we havent done any shopping which oddly enough turned out to be a blessing.
The weekend of the 18th we went to Mesa to see a nephew come home from his mission and let the kids have a few days with the Mesa cousins. WE love it there and its always hard to come home. So of course we waited till the last minute to come home Tuesday Dec. 20th. We went to St. George to pick up our puppy before we came home to Mesquite and when we drove up in the driveway we immediately knew, something was wrong. There was a big puddle in the driveway and that doesnt happen unless there is a leak.........we jumped out of the car and ran to the door. Water was coming out of the seams of the walls and the front door out on the sidewalk and we knew we had trouble.
Our worst fears were confirmed as we opened the front door and stepped into 2 to 3 inches of water. We could hear water running but were sure from where. It was "raining" from the sheetrock on the ceiling so we knew it was upstairs. I ran up the stairs and the kids' bathroom was spraying water everywhere. After I got through the spray I found the hose behind the toilet was the culprit and reached down and turned the main supply for the toilet off. For a second I just stood there.....I could hear everyone freaking out and yelling and I just stood there in shock or denial or wahtever.
And then the mayhem began........
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
I'm going to miss my Little Kate when she grows up....
When I picked up Kate from school today she said: "Mom i think Paola is my BFF.." Me: Why? Kate: Because her cubby is right above mine. Me: Oh, okay so that makes her your friend? Kate: Yep and tomorrow I want you to give me gum so I can put it in her cubby. And Oh, I think that other girl is my friend too but she pushes me sometimes, but its ok. Me: Oh really, why does she push you? Kate: She just does, but its ok mom, she is still my BFF too. Oh and by the way she came home with a $10 bill the other day and said that the boy that sits next to her gave it to her. His name is Manuel and he never says a word. I've seen her sitting by him and she just peeks over at his papers and takes care of him like a little mother hen and he just looks straight forward and peeks at her thru the sides of his eyes and never says a word. So I made her give the money back, she couldnt understand at all what my problem was. He probably had no clue how much money it was but oh well.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Has it been that long?
Wow my last post was at Christmas? Yikes, that tells ya what my life is like. Or maybe its just easier to load picts on face book and forget the blog. Either way, I'm here now. and I have to post these cute picts. Today was Kate's kindergarten field trip to Hafen ranch....wow one thing I hate about haveing a great camera is I can never decide which pict is my favorite.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Christmas !
Its been a long time since I have blogged.... a lot has happend. But I'll start with Christmas...
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