Floods, PR's and Quick Trips

This has been a big year of "firsts" for us.  First time 2 major appliances have broken down at the same time, first time our car has broken down in the middle of nowhere and this week was the first time we have ever had to have a cleaning restoration company at our house. So many exciting events, so little time.

 

Tuesday morning I ran down to the storage room to grab something, but when I stepped in and turned on the light I knew something was wrong when my feet got wet.  I could hear water gushing into the room so I ran upstairs to get Adam.  We could see the drain in the storage room was not draining and found the water only gushed in when someone flushed a toilet.  Further investigation revealed there was also water in the utility room and it was starting to get into the cold storage room under the front porch. Long story short we had a pipe 17 feet down and away from the house that was partially collapsed so when someone in our house flushed a Thomas the Train toy (could have been any of the 10 young boys that have played there in the last week) it got caught where the pipe collapsed and caused a sewage backup.  Even though we caught the backup almost right away the fact that the water coming in was sewage meant that a full professional cleanup was required.

 

There is nothing like having a couple of guys in hazmat suits hanging around your house for a couple of hours.  I was kind of waiting for someone to say "E.T. phone home" but realized my kids were a little young to know the reference.

 

They had to cut the carpet around the 2 doors which means that now we will have to get new carpet in the entire basement.

 

On a happier note Britton ran in the Region Cross Country meet on Wednesday at the Cottonwood Complex and had a fabulous race.

The start of the JV boys race

He got a PR of 17:51 for the 3 mile course.  At first we thought it was only 2.9, but the official results said it was an even 3.0.  Whatever the case Britton was thrilled.  He finished his freshman year on a high note and even beat a few boys on the team he hasn't beat before.

 

RHS Cross Country Team

Ridgeline swept Region in all 4 races.  They took first place in JV boys, JV girls, Varsity Boys and Varsity Girls. Britton has really loved running cross country.  How could you not with such a fun team?

 

We made a quick trip to Boise this weekend for Terrika's "missionary opportunity to speak". We couldn't leave until after Britton's Saturday morning soccer game, but we still fit a lot into our overnight trip.

 

 

Korinne holding a pet bird on her finger.

 

Adam's sister Kirsti has 3 girls, the youngest of which is Sarah who is 15. Being a lot older than Jameson didn't stop them from getting out their big tub of toys and playing right along with him.  In fact, after finding them all deep in their play I wondered who was having more fun, the older girls or Jameson.

 

They all played together non-stop. They played soccer and volleyball outside until they got rained out, then came inside for games.

Britton, Korinne, Cassidy, Sarah and Jenna

Jenna, Korinne, Britton, Sarah and Jameson

 

They even had cool coloring books and design stencils.



Terrika and Jenna

Terrika was called to Russia the same week the news broke that Russia no longer allowed religious proselytizing and that missionaries would essentially become "volunteers".  A lot of missionaries who received calls to Russia have been reassigned to other countries.  Terrika is still going to Russia, but 2 weeks before she was scheduled to enter the MTC her mission call was changed to the Samaria Mission instead of some Mission that started with a V and had a super long name that I couldn't pronounce, and her MTC date was pushed back 3 weeks.   She now leaves Oct 26th.  She did a great job on her talk and we were glad we were able to spend some time with them during our short trip.

After church on Sunday Sarah was showing the snapchat app to my kids.  They were laughing hysterically at all of their funny pictures.

 

We are talking hours of entertainment here.

 

Sarah LOVES playing with cousins.  When Jameson was concerned that there wouldn't be any cousins his age to play with I assured him that Sarah would be more than happy to play with him the entire time and she did.  She really loved having Jameson around and wished we lived closer so she could play with him more often.

 

Sarah took Britton and Jenna with her to a stake dance Saturday night and they had a great time.

 

We were back on the road at 2 p.m. Sunday but were really glad we had made the journey especially since we were the only ones from Kirsti's side of the family who could be in attendance.  We wish Terrika well on her next big adventure in Russia!