6 months today!!!

Isabella is 6 months old today! I feel bad that I have not posted in a whole month!!! Bad, busy mommy! We have our 6 month check up on so I will update then with stats!! Here is a quick picture that I JUST snapped on the phone....



There is so much to catch up on...life has been crazy! Let's see....

Monday, 11/22/2010

I worked all weekend and woke up at 5:30am on Monday, looking forward to a quiet, relaxing day. I had planned to do some laundry and a little tidying up around the house. I went to the bathroom and then went back to bed. I noticed it was 5:30am and that DH had already left for work. Some days he does have to leave at about 5/5:30! Well, at 9am, Isabella started to stir & her voice coming through the baby monitor woke me up. I rolled out of bed and when my foot hit the carpet....YIKES!!!! Cold, soaking wet! Water! In my carpet! I look up to see water just flowing out of my master bathroom! There was 2-3 inches of standing water in there!! I run in, soaking my Pajama pants & manage to turn off the water at the toilet bowl. Yep, the bowl itself was just steadily overflowing!!! I am in panic mood now! Peyton was still soundly asleep & Isabella was happily cooing in her crib. I peel off my wet pajama pants...and am running around in a tank top & underwear, like a chicken with its head cut off! LOL! I think I called Shane 1st...not sure how I even described the situation...something like " House is flooding, water everywhere, 3 inches at least, carpet in bedroom soaked, you have ro leave work NOW!" and then, as i went downstairs.... "Oh my goodness! Water is running down the wall on the stairwell, through the ceiling! OMG! The wood floors down here are covered in water!!" Then I round through the family room & go to the front hallway downstairs...I flip on the light...the hallway is flooded...2-3 inches of water & the light fixture, which is kinda like a hanging bowl...filled with water, over flowing with water! I quickly turn the light back off! So, our laundry room, bathroom, hallway & garage...all under our master bedroom & bath, are flooded and leaking! The garage is BAD!! I called our awesome insurance company...State Farm...and they quickly refer me to a cleaning/drying/restoration service. They were not going to be able to come out for like 1 1/2 hrs. I spent the rest of that time running from room to room panicking more & more by the minute as i saw more & more damage. I finally pulled myself together & put on some jeans & a shirt, fed Isabella, got Peyton up & dressed. Shane never did leave work...they were short handed that day & he couldn't!
They brought in about 5 million heater/fans...cut holes in the drywall, tore down the ceiling in the garage, tore out our carpet upstairs in our bedroom, the hall, the loft/rec room & Isabella's room and they plan on tearing out all the hardwoods downstairs and replacing them! Craziness! Here are a few pics...






So, 3 days before Thanksgiving, at 10pm, we had to put our dogs in a kennel & move into a 2 bedroom suite hotel. Fun times! The 1st hotel was in Southpark, a nice area, but 40 minutes from home and the kids schools! We stayed there until yesterday when we decided enough was enough...and requested something closer to home. So, now we are here....a tad closer to home and schools...definitely an easier drive. They say they hope to get us back home by Christmas eve....I am not too sure yet. The guy has almost finished redoing all of the drywall in our garage but thats it. Nothing else has been done. Supposedly on Tues & wed next week, they will pack up all of our furniture etc & move it to storage so they can get busy on fixing the inside drywall and repainting walls and laying new floors.....

By the way... Shane admitted to me that the whole debacle was probably, ok, WAS, his fault...he clogged the toilet at 5am, but was in a hurry & just LEFT it!! Left it for me to unclog later!! NICE!! Well, at 5:30am when I got up to pee, yes, just pee!!!, I didn't notice anything odd about the toilet. I guess when I flushed it & went back to bed, that is when the water started to flow.....