Flooding

The basement flooded this afternoon. It came through the window and down the wall. The floor soon filled with water as it swept toward the stairs, the stack of new sheet rock and the boys bedroom. The water soaked the sheetrock, went under the walls to fill the bottom of the stairs, the first four feet of the boys bedroom and into the utility room surrounding the water heater and the furnace.

It was wet.

And messy.

I pulled out the carpet and pad from the bottom of the stairs, filled the wet dry vac a number of times and killed a black widow spider in the window well. A frustrating afternoon!

Splash

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The weekend

The children had the day off for District Development day on Friday. I took the day off of work too. I mowed the front and back lawn in the morning.

The family then piled in the car and went up to Payson Lakes for an afternoon of fishing. The boys caught 7 rainbow trout between them and my oldest daughter contributed three more to the stringer. We cleaned the fish lakeside and threw the entrails to the ducks who devoured them.

Came home to watch a dance program put on in back of the neighbor's house by my daughter and her friends (the girls of the three families) It included tickets to attend and a tribute to the new Hanna Montana movie.

We put the kids to bed and went back over to the neighbors house where we played Hearts with six of us. We all contributed treats for the game night. I made "cake like" brownies. There was also apples and carmel, various cheeses with a sliced beef stick with crackers, cream cheese with pineapple jalapeno salsa, chunky nacho cheese dip with tortilla chips.

Today, I helped my second son and his broken foot get to his football pictures in his pads and crutches. He and I then went to watch his team play their Saturday game without him. We sat on chairs by the end zone with a third chair propping up his foot and watched his Cowboys beat the Sky Hawks 14 to 6. My son could hardly sit still, he wanted to play and be involved so badly.

We returned home after the game and my oldest son and I continued the framing project until we ran out of wood.

My wife has now left for the General RS Meeting with her sister and one of the neighbors. We are glad that she could go and enjoy the meeting and get away from us for a few minutes. She looked really cute in a pregnancy denim skirt and pink top layered with a white shade.

She had dinner in the oven for us before she left (Yummy chicken and rice casserole with green beans, apple sauce and pears). I hope that she stops for ice cream before she comes home (peanut butter cup blizzards)

Church will dominate my day tomorrow. I have to be at the church at 7:50 AM and am slated to be there until around 4:30 to 5:00 PM right now.

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It has begun! (ominous organ music..da ta dahhh)

My son and I have constructed a rudimentary framework along one short wall of the basement. Those construction types might call this "framing!" I would not be so bold. Although, it does look a whole lot better then the "framing" in the boys bedroom. You learn.... you mess up... you learn....you mess up....you hire professionals.... you read a book. (The construction circle of life) I can almost see little pumba in a construction hat right now.

One short wall and window down, about 18 times the work still to go, including a bathroom.

Goal: Carpet installation before Thanksgiving.

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Mooooving Days

I am moved again.

Officially back into the Springville branch of Family First. I still have 6 boxes to go through.

I am still pretending to be a mortgage lender as Family First is still not able to do business lending.

I am glad to be closer to home. I even got the chance to run over to my daughter's school and pick her up for lunch on her early day. What a treat! I took each of my daughters out this week for a few minutes of one on one time in the evening. This usually includes riding in daddy's truck and getting ice cream. I love the few minutes to watch and listen to them.

I am determined to begin buying 2x4's tomorrow so that I can begin framing the basement.

Chau

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