March 2009

Well the end of February/beginning of March was quite a hectic time at our house. Not only were we getting ready for our yearly sojourn to the Arizona Desert, but after two feet of snow and three days of 50 degree weather our basement flooded. What a mess! For about three days John and I worked in shifts of every 1 1/2 hours running shop-vacs to clean up puddles of water flowing into the basement.





Finally when the water receded a bit and after two days of drying out, we rented a jackhammer and John installed a sump pump in my pantry that is below the stairs. The pump ran for about three days to get all the ground water out from around our house. A little uneasy still, we left for our week-long vacation to Arizona.





It was so nice to get to the warm weather. The girls had fun in their sand pile. The weather was just perfect... 70s and 80s. We decided to take our pup, Bella, with us this year. We were not out of the car 5 min before she got into the Choia stickers. (The worst there are) but she held still and let us pull them out with pliers. This year, John's Mom and Dad had put a hot tub out on their bedroom patio. The girls thought this was AWSOME!. I'll send along pics. When we returned home, I was worried about the basement, but much to our relief everything was dry and really not as bad as was thought before leaving.
P.S. YOu will see Rhiannon in her new glasses. We told her that it only makes her look smarter.

Hope everyone had a good March. We are hoping for a relatively quite April.