Are You Kidding Me?

I am more and more convinced that the saying is true: "when it rains it pours." And it has been doing a lot of raining here in Utah. So much raining, in fact, that Davis County has been on flood watch for quite some time now. The water table is rising, the reservoirs are filling up (and being drained in hopes of keeping up), runoff is rushing out of the mountains, and some of the snow pack hasn't even started to melt yet. Which is why this happened:

I've seen this before, but unlike the previous times, this was not caused by the stupidity of a neighbor leaving the sprinklers on all day. This was coming out of the ground. Luckily we caught it before it completely invaded the kitchen. Some got in under the door, which is not surprising, but Josh and EJ went back to the house just in time to see the water.

We (and by we I mean the men and my mom, since I'm the pregnant one that can't be of much help) set to work trying to install a pump to flush all of the water out. It was quite the humorous process, but it worked beautifully in the end:

Thank goodness the sun is out today and the heat might dry things up a bit. It might also make this dry a bit faster:

Which brings me to why we were away from home when the flooding started in the first place. Sunday night we discovered a slow leak under our kitchen sink. Yippee! And along with the water damage to the cabinet underneath? Mold. And quite a bit of it. We spent the night at my parents Sunday so that we could have a professional look at the damage on Monday. Luckily it wasn't too bad, and they just had to tear out the boards under the sink and replace the faucet (pretty new faucet for me...which I haven't seen yet, since I am banished from the house until the mold and mold cleaner is all clean and dry).

I am ready for some dry weather and sunshine. Two separate water-related incidents in 12 hours is a little too much for me, thank you.

In Honor of My Inner Nerd...

Today is international Star Wars day! I'm not sure why. I just know it is. So, in honor of one of the best movie sagas ever created, and also in recognition of my very nerdy side, which hasn't had an opportunity to shine in awhile, enjoy this picture of Jedi me with the real live original Yoda!

Home Alone...

...with no idea what to do today! So far time's a wasting because it's 11:00 and I haven't even managed to get myself ready for the day. I'm sitting here on the couch doing nothing instead, with Shena laying on my feet (a funny place for her to be, since she isn't technically allowed on the couch) and Toby by my side. Josh is off helping Sterling film his final project for school. So what shall I do? I SHOULD clean the house. It is such a disaster - especially after Toby helped himself to the paper that was inside the diaper bag I bought yesterday. He loves a good paper-shredding session! The one thing I know I have to do is laundry, at the very least.


I would love to work on the nursery some more, but at the moment I think I've done about everything I can. I have to wait another paycheck or six before I have the money to buy anything else. Yesterday we did take the closet door down (it took up too much space) and replace it with this adorable curtain:

And I can't wait to get the rest of the wall decals up either. Love that elephant above the changing table!


I'm feeling very frustrated by "work" right now. It is work. It's just work at home. I really enjoy it, for the most part, but at the moment I only have one consistent client and the articles they want are so boring! They take all creativity out of the writing process. Ridiculous. I really am trying to find more clients, or at least an occasional fun job here and there, but I guess I need more patience for that.


Josh is currently enjoying some freedom from school, though he has to decide tonight whether he wants to take summer classes or not. He has procrastinated the decision, and the summer term starts tomorrow. The problem is that finals week happens to be the same week the baby is due, and we're not sure how well that will work out. If he doesn't do school, he may try to find a second, temporary summer job to help earn some extra money. He is on the job hunt for a more permanent job as well, since the church decided to merge the distribution center and Deseret Book (which is not owned by the church) and all distribution center employees are being laid off at an undetermined point in time (by the end of the year). We're keeping our fingers crossed that he can find something good.


That is about our life in a nutshell right now. School, work and baby! It's not much but we love it anyway. Aside from the work part...would be nice if we were independently wealthy and didn't have to worry about that. Who doesn't want that though?