pure chaos.

remember when this happened back a couple years ago?

well...

we had a little deja vu of it last night (err early this morning). 

except this time, everyone was peacefully sleeping (except for me. sleeping without a husband, plus a wiggly toddler equaled not great sleep for me) and it was 4 AM. i had just rolled over onto my stomach when i heard a really loud fuzzy sound, almost like static on a tv. then, with a vengeance, water starting spraying out of the ceiling with the force of a hose on a fire truck. i scrambled to pick brooklyn up, throw off the covers, dodge the water, and get out of the room all in one swoop. i calmly told my parents that a pipe had burst and that water was going everywhere. 

the next thirty minutes were pure chaos.

the water was freezing cold and i got to work setting up plastic totes and buckets so as to catch as much of the water as possible. i also laid towels out to kind of fence it all in to just one area of the room. my parents were scrambling to turn off the water but were unsuccessful. my mom and whitney joined me in running back and forth from the flood to the bathroom shoveling buckets of water out of totes and into the bathtub. all the while, my dad was still trying to get the water turned off. it was outside and it was freezing cold. he called for reinforcements and not a second too soon, had the water turned off. we ladies were drenched and absolutely frozen. gosh that water was frigid. (haley also woke up during the chaos and entertained brooklyn until the water stopped.)

after the fiasco, some of us went back to bed (in a different room), while others had to be up for work shortly anyway, so going back to bed wasn't an option. 

i was one of those who got to go back to bed and i still feel like i've been hit by a train. definitely a surreal experience. luckily, we've all been able to laugh about it since. some took naps. some of us went to lunch in park city (whitney and i) and it turned out to be a pretty ok day. 

it was chili and cornbread for dinner and then we were all in a zombie like state for the rest of the night. but hey, great experience to share as a family. am i right?!

(brooklyn and olivia peacefully sleeping while their mommies went to park city)

and another...

from olivia's blessing on sunday.

p.s. happy 4 years to my bro and SIL. 

thank heaven for plumbers!

what does THIS and 6 oclock am have to do with my morning...

was i being super homemaker and canning before the sun came up?...

nope.

i was bathing out of it...

see, last night...

we had a flood.

james & i were just chillin on the couch, thinking how lame our monday night was going

when all of the sudden there was a loud noise upstairs and then the sound of water gushing.

james thought it was someone flushing a toilet upstairs...

but oh no.

it was a waterfall at our front door.

water was pouring in through the ceiling and in through the carpet.

holy moly we didn't know what to do.

i'm running around yelling at james to fix it while i'm grabbing buckets and other things that could hold water.

james is pulling at a gazillion levers trying to shut the water off to the house.

i call our landlady to let her know of the flood going on in her basement and luckily the landlord was just walking in the door as james ran up into their house to look for whatever was causing the flood downstairs.

it was pure chaos for a good 10 minutes.

and then...

the process of getting it all sopped up.

we stepped on towels, rung out towels, switched out towels for the next 2 hours.

so much for a boring monday night.

needless to say, my husband got to shower me this morning. we decided cold showers just weren't worth it. so james got up super early and showered himself, then boiled more water for me and more than willing...he helped me get my hot shower in for the day.

a plumber is coming in today to fix the pipe that burst sometime later today.

thank heavens for plumbers!




(after all was said and done, james thought he needed this as a reward for all his hard work :) )