If It Isn't One Thing...

I realize it has been several days since I have had a chance to enlighten everyone... The last blog I wrote was talking about the possibility of snow. Well, it did. We got around 7 inches! Now, for all of the other excitement that has happened since my last post...




On Friday, we were planning to have my cousin, Dakota, a surprise birthday dinner. He turned 16 yesterday. He had surgery on his elbow 3 days before Christmas, bone graft, pins and all, and has been wearing a cast ever since. Anyhow, we were all supposed to be there at the restaurant at 5:30. It started snowing at 5. So, we made it to dinner... slipping and sliding. When we got home and closed the garage door, we decided we were not leaving the house until today. Yeah, right.

Saturday was mostly uneventful. We slept late. Ate all day since that is what you do when you are bored or snowed in the house. (Even though we weren't "snowed in".) Then decided to go sledding with the family. It was fun but, the hill was really steep and quite frankly, I am too lazy to hike it. Therefore, after about 5 trips down, I was finished. Ryan, on the other hand, toughed it out and in turn, paid for it today.

Yesterday is when all hell broke loose! Let me begin by saying we are new home-owners. We have been in our home for nearly 4 months. We have had a problem with our kitchen pipes freezing... and well, yesterday we had one bust. Ryan and I had been turning the hot water on every few hours and allowing it to run for, maybe, 5 minutes. Little good did that do. Anyway, after most of the day yesterday and 4 men working, it still wasn't fixed. Keep in mind that we had to keep our water turned off because if not, it was shooting out the wall. Luckily, the pipe that busted was behind our dishwasher and so, although the drywall had to be cut, it IS hidden. This morning, my father-in-law came to finish the job. Much to our chagrin, the cold water pipe was frozen. Three and a half hours later the job was complete. Don't worry, we now have working water, and thankfully, no leaks... That we know of.



In the midst of all of this, Knox is also cutting a tooth. His first tooth. It is just through the gum but, will hopefully be all the way in within a few days. I'll be sure to post a picture first thing. And then, being the terrible mother that I am... he fell over and hit his head on the computer tonight, while crawling. This resulted in a bruise over his left eyebrow and I determined that he will probably keep bruises from this point on because after all, he is a boy.