Random Happenings

 Well, we are still here even if I have been a little slack on my blog updates.  January has been full of everyday happenings as well as some real crazy moments.  The biggest thing to happen was our basement flooded.   We woke up Friday, January 14th, ready to start packing for our trip to Frieberg.  Hyrum had a four day weekend because of the Martin Luther King holiday and we had a few fun things planned.  The boys were the first to discover the lake in the basement.  I believe they went down there to hide one of Julian's toys (they are always hiding his favorite toy.)  They came upstairs and said, "mom, we have a swimming pool in the basement!"  I thought the worst and ran down looking for a broken pipe or the sound of running water but I didn't hear or see anything out of the ordinary that would explain the 5 inches of water in my basement.  Hyrum came down and we decided it must be ground water seeping in through the basement walls and floors.  Bavaria had about 39 inches of snow in December when the average snowfall is about 8 inches.  Then January came along with warm rainy days and all the snow melted at once...not good.  Our landlady who grew up in the house we are now renting said the whole time her family lived here the basement has never flooded.  The good news is we didn't loose anything too precious other than a few framed pictures and some books.  Most of the things we could just take to the laundromat and clean up or hang outside on our front porch to dry.  Still, it ruined our whole weekend and we usually get to explore something new and fun on a four day weekend!

You really can't tell how high the water got from this picture but just look at the sides of the cardboard boxes to see how high the water rose.

 

Here is Townsend showing off the gingerbread man house he made for his classroom gingerbread village.  Yes, I know it's made out of cardboard, but it had to last the whole month at school!

Do I really need to add a caption to this cute photo?  

OK, so the second crazy thing to happen in January (gee, the month isn't even over yet and we have had two major upsets!)  Yesterday I was making Julian a very nutritious and well balanced lunch (OK, so I was opening a can of spaghettios) and I sliced my finger on the open lid of the spaghettios can.  At first I grabbed a paper towel and applied pressure (thank you Girls Camp for the first aid lessons!)  The bleeding didn't stop and so I called Hyrum at his office and told him I was on my way.  Lucky for me he was on his lunch break so I wasn't interrupting his schedule.  When I got to his office he decided the best course of action would be stitches.  Those of you who know me well know I am the biggest wimp when it comes to needles so I wasn't too happy about this but I also wanted my finger to stop bleeding.  Hyrum's very nice nurse took Julian for us (she bribed him with gummy bears!)  Hyrum had to give me about 5 injections of numbing medicine to make sure my finger was nice and numb and then he proceeded to sew me up.  I was very brave but also very nauseous and light headed when it was all over.  I am posting the G rated picture because I can't even abide looking at the stitches and I didn't want to expose anyone else to the gore.

So there you have it.  January has had some ups and downs but we are still here!