Holiday Flood and a break in

This weekend Joe, Seth and his dad decided to go ice-fishing. It had been pretty warm here the past few days, so they went to Vernal. I had choir practice in the morning and then Makenna and Maddie and I decided to go to Sandy to visit Grandma Helen and Anna's kids. Anna and Cody had gone to Memory Grove for a Wedding luncheon and so Helen had her kids. When they got back from the luncheon, Anna said that someone had shattered her side window and stolen her purse from the car. It had everything in it, of course. Even her social security card and temple recommend etc... She was supposed to go the wedding later that afternoon, but couldn't. Well not an hour after Anna had her incident, I got a call from my mother telling me that a water pipe had broken at my house. I was in a panic. I was a half an hour away from home and Joe was out of town. I jumped in my car and while I was on the way, my dad called and told me that the storage room window had broken and there was about 2 inches of water throughout the entire basement. I was not a happy camper. Here I am 9 months pregnant and pretty emotional anyway, so it was not good news to get.

I have wonderful neighbors that showed up and turned off the water before my dad got there and were over with their shop vacs when I got home. They are seriously so great. I think I would have had a nervous breakdown if I had been all alone. There were toys, clothes and crap from hell to breakfast, and it was all swimming. It was so bewildering. Thats the best word to use to describe it. I just started picking up what I could and we were vacuuming up what we could. Lucky for me Anna had the 2 girls for me. Makenna would have had a heart attack seeing all her stuff wet. It was hard for me and it wasn't even my stuff.

I have been thinking for the past few days that I needed to get rental insurance because of that family in Orem that lost everything in a fire a few days ago. My agent was out of town and so I thought I would wait until Monday. Well isn't it always how it works? We get the idea and then when we need it the most, we don't have it? I have to say that we were really lucky. Most of the stuff was just toys and crap that weren't all that important. I am so grateful that it wasn't worse. It can always be worse. Thank you neighbors and family for all your help. The disaster cleanup crew is here now and that is good. Anna also has the kids for the night so that takes a ton of stress off my shoulders. All I can say is that I am glad that my dad has insurance. It would totally suck for him. He just finished remodeling the entire house. What a pain. His famous line is that if is worth doing, its worth doing twice. I guess thats what we have here...