So far behind....

Well, I've been procrastinating in posting a blog b/c I think that they are boring w/o pictures, but I guess I'm just going to have to do without for a while. Unfortunately, the storm of the decade that happened on June 19th affected us too! We lost 2 huge tree branches in the front yard that fortunately fell towards the road and miraculously missed our house, Derek's truck, and the power line! Our basement was not so lucky. Derek and I have NEVER had water in the basement in the 8yrs we've lived here. We have a sump-pump pit, but no sump-pump. We've never even seen water in the pit before that night! Well, after the storm hit, water starting coming up through the pit. We were able to stay on top of it for a few hours by sucking the water up with a shop-vac and carrying up buckets of water, but soon the water took over and we lost the battle. By the time we "gave up" it was around 3:30 am and we both extremely sore and exhausted. We moved as much as we could off the floor, upstairs, or to the far side of the basement. The next day we borrowed a pump and fans and tried to dry out. We lost all the carpet in the basement, it was amazing how quickly it started to smell!! Luckily, I think that's about the extent of it. We recently found out that our insurance is going to cover some of it, so that's a huge blessing b/c we thought they wouldn't! Unfortunately, Derek spent his Father's Day weekend doing ALOT of manual labor! We certainly couldn't have done it w/o the help of our family and neighbors! Derek's dad and brother and our neighbor Rob were over right away the next morning with chainsaws, ladders, and a chipper to clean up the trees. It took them most of the day to get it all cleaned up! I was so thankful! A lady who lives down the street even stopped and volunteered to her sons to come help, so they used them too! It was kind of funny the next morning I went outside to take pictures when we got up and all I could hear was the sound of chainsaws running! There were trees down or uprooted throughout our whole neighborhood. It was really quite storm!

The reason for no pictures, is b/c our computer is in the basement and we had to take it all apart and off the floor so it wouldn't get ruined. We still have a lot of work to do down there so Derek just hooked up the bare essentials so I could at least have internet access, but things I need to be able to upload pics are in a pile somewhere so sorry this is just boring words. Will try to post pics soon! Hopefully we'll be getting a check from the ins. co. this week or next and can get going!! It makes me very anxious b/c this is a major set-back in getting Ethan in his new room and big boy bed! This baby will be here before we know it and NOTHINGS READY!!!!!! AHHHH! Okay, deep breath, every thing's going to be okay.....I hope!!