Oh No!

Ivy’s screaming woke me up on Friday morning at 2:30 am. As I came out of my sleep I realized that there was some sort of alarm going off as well. I rushed downstairs and looked in her room where she had her hands clapped over her ears, but the sound wasn’t coming from there. I grabbed the carbon monoxide detector, but when I messed with that, I just added more noise to the clamor. I then turned to Peter’s room, where he also had his hands clapped over his ears. His smoke alarm was blaring, but there was no smoke. Low battery? (don’t get me started on what their reactions to smoke alarms should have been). I ran upstairs to get the step stool so I could shut it off and when I ran through, I stepped into the pond that used to be my kitchen.
One of the hoses that feeds our freezer leaked and spewed water all over my kitchen, down through the floor and through the smoke detector and light in Peter’s bedroom. When we stood in his room it sounded like it was raining. Bryan’s office floor which is adjacent to the kitchen was quite swampy too. We mopped up what we could, which was basically the wood floor, put buckets in Peter’s room to catch the dripping water, moved him to the couch and went back to bed. But it wasn’t easy to go to sleep since I couldn’t stop thinking about all the horrible damage to my new house.

Needless to say, my once pretty house is no longer quite so pretty.

Before

Current (we don't have the after pictures yet)

Bryan's Office.

It's so sad.

Pikes Peak

We went to the top of Pikes Peak while Jeana was here, and you could actually feel it getting harder to breathe. We worried that Jeana was getting altitude sickness, but after we stopped for a break and she seemed better, we concluded that she was probably just car sick.

The problem with slide shows is that it really reduces the quality of the pictures.

Garden of the Gods

We went to Garden of the Gods on the July 4th weekend and again when Jeana was here. When Jeana was here there was this random guy up on one of the monolith playing bagpipes so we hiked up to find him . . . even little Simon.

There were too many cool pictures so I had to do a slide show . . . and I still left a bunch out.

Home Sweet Home

It's not exactly how I would like it, but it's coming along. We still have pictures to hang up and a few other things, but here are some pictures of the house.


The front . . .


The back . . .


The entryway


Living room / dining room


The kitchen


Half the family room


The other half. It's a really long room, which is great for the kids to run around in. So there it is. If you want to see more . . . come visit.

Another One Bites the Dust!

I do realize I should post pictures of the house, but this is urgent (not really, I just want to wait until the house is unpacked to post pictures). Ivy, being the daredevil she is decided to ride her bike down the side of our house.

Well, it didn't go as planned. I heard her crying and came out to see blood dripping from a gaping hole in her forehead, down into her eyes. I quickly removed the helmet, tried to comfort the neighbor girls who beat me out there, and applied pressure.


We rushed to the ER (thank heaven's I knew where it was) where she received five stitches in her forehead and two in her cheek. The forehead wound was too big for glue or anything like that. They had to pull the canyon back together. I couldn't bring myself to take a picture of the forehead uncovered, before the stitches. It was a little traumatic. And the people in the ER waiting room who had horrified looks on their faces when they saw it uncovered didn't help.

As soon as we got home she asked if she could go outside and play.