The Roof

This project doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. Last week when we had a lot of rain we noticed a what we thought was a little leak. Before Blaine came to bed he and his dad poked a hole in the spot where the water had built up. Funny thing about this entire situation is we got a new roof on during the summer so you wouldn't think this would happen. The next morning the rain had stop and the dripping also had stopped. Through out the day I noticed the ceiling drooping more and all the dry wall was pretty wet to the touch. I kept thinking to myself that thing is going to fall I just really hope my kids aren't under it when it does. Sure enough that night I think this was on Tuesday night Linda was helping me in the kitchen with Baby Graice's cradle bedding and I was sitting at the table. Cameron was in the family room eating Cheetos and thank goodness Ryan was in bed but all of a sudden you hear this woosh sound. Drywall or in our case wet wall came crashing down along with a bunch of insulation. All I could think and say where is Cameron where is Cameron as I got out of the chair and ran into the family room. Cameron was sitting about a foot away from where the main very heavy wet piece of drywall came down. He was really scared and he had every right to be. The room was full of dust and insulation particles. Gary had gone out to do some Christmas shopping so I yelled at Danny to come upstairs and call his dad to get home.

This isn't a great picture but this is what it looked like when it first fell.

This is what the hole looked like that night. You can't tell but the drywall close to the door opening is just kind of hanging. Thank goodness my brother in law had a super nice shop vac and some plastic and came over to rescue us. I wish I got a picture of it but they concocted a way to hold the rest of the ceiling up using a box and a long piece of wood to brace it up. The good news was dinner was at Ellen's this week so we didn't have a ton of kids running around this board in the middle of the room.
this brings us to today's pictures we are now at two weeks almost and still no good news. The guy has come twice to fix what they thought the problem is even getting a piece made to go around the ac unit where the leak they say is coming from. He had another guy com out and help him do a super crazy water test and it is still leaking. The new plan is to replace the "jack stand" (the thing that the a/c unit sits on cuz that is where he thinks the leak is coming from.

He did open up the roof in the house since he thought he was going to be fixing it today and when that happened more drywall and insulation fell making the hole bigger. We new that was going to have to get bigger to fix anyway.

The good news is that since he took down more of the drywall we don't need the stick to hold up the roof anymore. With the house going to be full of people this weekend that will be nice. I doubt that we will have drywall fixed before Christmas like they where hoping but at least the stick is gone. There is new plastic and we will start over once they get the new piece built.

Funny Dec Pics

Just had to share some cute pictures that I got during the month of December.

Ryan came home from school with this very cool hat. The cooler part was that he had it on his head. It has taken him till now at 1st grade for him to actually put these hats that they make on his head. He has always had problems with this so it is fun to see him doing stuff like this on his own.

Cameron decided that he was going to an attack me he thought it was funny however his baby sister who is in my tummy didn't think it was that fun. Thank goodnes I saw him coming and turned on my side.

Everyone get Daddy. Yep Papa even got in on this action. Blaine was trying to get the boys to walk on his back. It didn't turn out so well. Ryan is sitting on Blaines head poor Daddy I bet you he wishes he was at school now.

Cameron loves taking care of his Baby Gracie. He is going to be such a good big brother one the real baby Gracie comes.

Christmas 2011

This year Santa went to Gma Birds house. Since we are living with Blaine's parents it was just easier to have santa come there that way things wouldn't get confused and we normally have Gma Bird over for Biscuits and Gravy after we open presents. We had our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve with Gma Bird. This was the loot that Santa left for our kiddos. We got up Christmas morning and headed over the boys got really excited.

Thank goodness our kids don't care if the stuff they get is new or not. Ryan told me that he wanted Super Mario Brothers Game for the Wii for like 3 months. He had gone to Flagstaff with Gma Matthews to take apples and Kenny had the game. Ever since then anytime we would walk by it at the store or he saw it in the ads he would make sure I knew that he wanted it. I figured since the game was a year old that it wouldn't be so expensive but I was wrong and I didn't want to pay $50.00 for a game. Thank goodness for Game Stop and them having used games. It didn't come in the fancy case but we don't keep those anyway so he was super excited when he pulled that out of his stocking.

Ryan got this super cool new radio control truck with a trailer. To bad daddy broke it later that afternoon but daddy also got a remote control car so it was a good thing his still works.

Cameron is addicted to Angry Birds. So he thought that this pig was the coolest thing ever.

Don't worry we didn't leave out Gma Bird. Her DVD player stopped working so we got her a new one and set it up for her and she was super happy.

Flagstaff Family Visits

A few days before Christmas Janna, Madison, Buddy, Kenny, Kaylee and Tenley came down for a quick Christmas. Even though they only stayed one night all the kids had fun. Ryan was so excited to see Kenny. It was fun to watch them open all the gifts they got then all the kids went to play in there different directions. Cameron thought Tenley was cute and gave her toys to play with.

Then Cameron decided that he need some popcorn. Now Cameron does not share his popcorn and if you think that you can sneak one you are wrong. Tenley saw that he was eating something so she came over and wanted some. Lets just say that didn't turn out so well. Cameron threw a major fit so we made Tenley her own bowl. Audrey gave her some popcorn and it was the first time she had it and loved it.

Blaine was eating some stuff in the kitchen when Tenley came in wondering what he had. That little girl can eat. It was so cute to see Blaine with Tenley can't wait to see him with our little girl.

 

Trains

Every year we go to the train house. The Serrines in our stake has a huge train display and every year we take the boys

This year there was a super long line and we got there 45 minuets before they opened. We took Papa Bird with us.

They love looking at these trains and it is always super crowded.

Hall of Flame

Papa Bird came down from Colorado to bring Christmas presents. Nana was going to come but she got the flu so she ended up staying home. I had gotten Hall of Flame passes at Island Fest and they expired in Dec since I have never been there and my dad use to be a fireman we thought it would be fun plus it was free. I will say it was really cool to see all the really old firetrucks however there is not much for little kids but we got through it. They did have one truck that the kids could climb on as well as a little kid area with some toys. Like I said it was free so it all worked out. My dad on the other hand thought it was super cool to see firetrucks/wagons from 1800's plus newer ones. We did get some cute pics so all in all it was a good day.

Tree

We finally got a tree last weekend. We always get a real tree cuz we love the smell. Since we are living with my in laws I figured that we would use her pre-light tree but Blaine said something about getting a real tree and she said that we could. So that was nice but we waited a couple weekends to go and get it really cuz Blaine had Clipper weekend and that is always super crazy. Also with it being a real tree we figured waiting till the 2nd weekend that it would help the tree not dry out so while I was at work Saturday the boys went and got a great tree. We put the tree on top of the coffee table once cuz the table is pretty big and with everyone that will be here for Christmas we needed more room. So they got a 5 1/2 ft tree set it on top of the table and it looked perfect. Ryan helped put up the ornaments but when we where all done he was bummed that we didn't put our ornaments up. Our family's tree is a miss mosh of handmade ornaments and some from places where we have been plus one that my brother and I had on our tree growing up at my Grandparents house. Ryan begged for the train ornaments so Blaine told him he would go and find it for him. The bad news it was in the far back corner of our unit but he still found it. So we have gmas perfect matching ornaments on the tree and our train ornaments that only works for a 1/4 of the time since it is over 20 years old.

The boys still had a lot of fun hanging all the balls on gmas tree so all in all everything worked out good.Hopefully next year will be back to normal and we will have our own place and own tree.

Ryan is such a little cheese ball