Thanksgiving Weekend

This year for Thanksgiving we stayed home as per usual. Trevor, My brother and his wife and kids came over. I had baked 4 pies! YUMMY. The turkey turned out so nice. Chris spent four whole days at home and we have done Nothing! Chris is getting antsy and has no idea what to do with himself. He is not very good at doing nothing but he is getting the hang of it. I have done a little sewing, reading and watched a few movies. I burnt my arm last week so the first few days of our vacation I was on drugs and had a tendency to fall asleep. It is threatening to snow and the weather is supposed to be in the thirties all week. I will be locking myself in the house!!! Yeah! I don't do cold. Hopefully, Derek will email me a couple of Thanksgiving pics and I will post them as soon as I can. Oh yeah, other big news is Christian served as an Alter Server for the first time at church last night. He is growing up so fast. I should be getting pics of that soon too. For now I have to go help Chris do nothing.

Jonah and The Priests

Jonah recently participated in his First Reconcilliation. Before he went to Church, I could not get him to actively participate in cleaning his room. After asking him several times to hurry, I decided to change tactics and apply some of that good 'ol Catholic guilt. I said "Jonah, if you don't listen to me and clean your room you will have to talk with the priest about that sin." To which he replied without an ounce of hesitation, "Don't worry mom, I already planned this one." It is good to know he was getting in as many sins as possible because he was pretty pleased with himself after being "absolved." Stating that they "forget what I tell them as soon as I say it" as if that was the coolest thing he ever heard of. Jonah is all about "the confession."

Flood part three....(read in order)

This is a view of our street from Mrs. Tubbs yard. At this point the water had already started to leave. FUN STUFF.
I got in the house about 10am, I was so happy to be home. The house smells a little musty and the yard is messed up with debris. I spent the morning cleaning up with My AWESOME friend Kim. If you see her tell her she rocks. Trevor, surprised me by pulling up shortly after to help. He checked out the furnace and got the heat going. He also changed out my themostat which was older than me. Everything is slowly going back in order. Thanks to everyone who called, sent messages. I really appreciated the support.

Flood part two

This a view from the neighbors house the next day after some of the water had gone away. A little blurry but you get the idea. That night we all stayed at My friend Kims house, who by the way was totally awesome and we are so blessed to have her and her family as friends. When the dealer called he let me know there was a good chance our car was toast. (lovely) We had no idea what had become of the house either. I was paniced. Fortunately, our neighbor who stayed called and went into the house to make sure there wasn't any damage. Thank God, the water never went in the house but stayed at the door. Then a few hours later Kim and I went into town to get a few things out of the car. When we got there the car was in the parking lot. I was a bit irritated that they weren't working on it. When I went into the dealer they told me they had just finished the car! Yeah. I brought the suburban back to Chris and he was very happy. Later that day, we drove down through town and Chris waded into the house and got out a few things we would need for the night. When woke up this morning the water had receeded enough for us to go home yeah!!

The flood part one

The first thing I have to say is I am amazed at how quickly the water rose. We new the flood was coming but had not heard anything specifically about our neighborhood. Others had been notified to evacuate but we had not. I walked the neighborhood at 9pm and all was well. Ihad a feeling we would get water but not this much. At 10pm there was a lot of vehicle comotion outside so I went out to look. I then realized the wate was already quickly approaching and we needed to move Chris's car. Within an hour we had tried to get the cars moved to dry ground. We came back, called a friend and decided to leave. 11pm. We got everyone loaded and tried to head out. No luck, the only option was to try our luck through the water. The suburban stalled about half way through, with Claire and McKenna in the car behind us. We pulled the kids out through the windows and walked them to a truck waiting on the other side. We then waded back into waste high water and pushed the Suburban through. AGGHH. Chris went back for Claire who was stuck with McKenna on the other side. They tried other routes with no luck. The water was coming from both ways out. I called a tow truck and my friend picked up the boys and took them back to her house and put them to sleep. She then came back and waited with me for the tow truck. I got the car towed out and then we went back to try to pick up Chris and Claire. About one o'clock in the morning we got the Sheriff to go in and get them. They put Chris, Claire and Mc Kenna in our canoe and then drove them the rest of the way out. When Chris left the water was knocking on the door!

Halloween

Before I talk about Halloween I just want to say it is very difficult to keep up a blog. I have taken to clicking on my blog in hopes that I will find someone has posted for me. It never works, I guess I have to do it myself.
Halloween was a lot of fun. Max was a robot which turned out awesome. I loved it. Jonah was Harry Potter which is shocking I know. Christian finally got to be something scary.....A vampire. The boys looked adorable. We went to some friends house and trick or treated the local neighborhood. I had a lot of fun and as always think my kids were the cutest.
It was a crazy day, I had to grocery shop for class party supplies, make 50 sugar cookies, take Jonah to acting, dinner, and then Halloween but it was a great time.
Today I am recovering, I didn't sleep to well last night because of all the wind. Yikes! I will work today, then off to piano lessons and boyscouts. Fun Fun DAY. Now you know why it is hard for me to keep up the blog. I got the kids school pics back and I will be posting them soon. I swear. Happy Halloween, now I just have to get ready for Thanksgiving!