Happy Thanksgiving

So we spent Thanksgiving at Marks parents house. It was fun, had some good fun playing games, watched man vs. food almost all day. The kids swam with grandma every morning, we also watched toy story 1 and toy story 2.

However things changed come saturday. I got a call from my neighbor that our garage was open and water was coming out. My heart jumped, I had her run over and go in the house. She said there was a big flood! I hurried and gave the phone to Mark so he could tell her how to turn the water off. We immediately left (without our kids) to get home. Called the insurance on the way.

When we got there it was like walking into a water cave. There were sounds of dripping , and stalactite (normally cave mineral deposits that come down from the ceiling) made out of paint hanging from the ceiling, it was crazy! It was so bad we just didn't know what to do?? So we did what anyone would do, we videotaped everything and went to dinner. Well we also called the insurance to see what to do and what we can do. Because it was saturday it took about 5 hours before a person that could do something responded. By that night at 7pm there were 7 or 8 people tearing out carpet pad and putting fans and dehumidifiers in our house. They had to call somebody to fix the furnace, it got covered in water.

My brother in-law Dave brought our kids and minivan up, Thanks!! He also tried to fix the furnace but it had a fried mother something? So we ended up staying at our home teachers house. Now we are staying at the Kelli's house, also known as Hunter and Savannah's house. It is really good because our kids can play. If we were in a hotel or something I don't know what the kids would do but I know I would not survive.

SOOOOO.......A pipe broke in the upstairs bathroom and must have run for a long time. It flooded all of the floor upstairs and anything on the floor. Caved in the ceiling in the office, garage, and laundry room. Flooded the basement so everything on the floor in the basement and upstairs...well lots of things got ruined. But like Travis Pastrana said "For as bad as it went, it went really well" We didn't loose photos, hard drives or anything that is not replaceable.

I will try to keep you better posted...whoever reads this.

State Parks of Utah Tour

Since we were going down to Panguitch anyway for my brothers wedding we decided to use our state park pass and go see the parks in southern Utah. It was tons of fun. We took Mark's parents RV and saw Red Rock canyon,  Kodachrome Park, Anasazi State Park, Escalante, Yuba Lake, and several others.      

Hiking Red Rock and a bridge in Capitol Reel

Jack always got really hot and loved to have dad dip him in the river.

Mom testing the fridgid water while Jack imersed himself in water.

Of all the places we went the kids loved the water places the best. One was a waterfall just on the side of the road by capital reef and one was on a hike to a cave we found a stream to play in. They loved the water and though it was freezing had a great time.

Kodachrome was our favorite park. It was really neat had tons of little hikes and was not crowded. This was a self guided nature tour. Abby read the entire pamphlet to us as we walked and looked at everything.

Kodachrome at dusk.

The kids found this old abandoned chicken coop and went inside and pretended to be chickens.

It was pretty funny and adorable.

This was the highway. It was very high up with sheer drops on both sides and just went along the ridge of the mountain. It was barely wider than the road. Needless to say I fear heights and did not enjoy this part.

Swimming at the waterfall. It was a really cool place and the kids swam for

 a long time even though it was cold.

This is a GPS malfunction result. We put in "no dirt roads" as an option and look were we ended up!!!!

Yuba lake was cold and not half as fun as we thought it would be considering

how much fun they had at streams and waterfalls.

    Overall we had a blast, spent very little money and have

 tons of memories to look back on. Yeah for the state park pass.