The Joys of Home Ownership

Being a homeowner is so fun, right??? Most times it great until something breaks. This past Sunday morning this is what we had at our house around 8:20 in the morning...


So not really this truck but we did have to make a fun phone call to 911 Sunday morning. We were all smelling gas. I called to ask my Dad about it and GG said "Call 911 RIGHT NOW!" They told us to immediately get everyone out of the house. We latched Jack up, got our coats on and came outside and the fire truck was turning on our street. A serious perk to having the fire department about 2 blocks away- they get there fast when you need them! After a few minutes they found our problem. Our furnace was lighting but not catching so gas was leaking out. Lovely. Turns out we need a whole new furnace and we should have it by Tues. afternoon. We do have a home warranty so we get about 50% of it paid for but still we have a huge chunk we have to pay out of pocket. We just love spending our $$ on things we can't see!!  It wasn't bad last night but today it as been super cold and raining here so it's very cold in here now. We're all wearing our jackets. I have on 2 pair of pants, 2 pair of socks, slippers, a long sleeve t, a short sleeve t, sweatshirt, and a jacket!!! Luckily GG and Pop offered to let Gracie stay with them. It's just too cold. We've had the fire place going and small space heaters so we're fine. I feel sorry for Ji. It's his last night with us and all this stuff is breaking! Ji is going back to his apartment again and will no longer be living with us but we will still see him. I said he's probably ready to have some peace and quiet!!



So this picture is in the Walmart parking lot where we saw the fire truck after church. Yes, Gracie has a balloon in her mouth. She'd been really good in the store so she got balloons. She loves blowing them up! Seeing the firetruck made me realize I was so frantic that morning that I didn't take a picture of Gracie by the fire truck that came to our house. The funny thing about Gracie is that she really didn't go crazy that the fireman were at our house. Probably most boys would be going crazy with excitement. She was just concerned about her babies. She had grabbed 3 on our way out the door!!  

Our house has 6 lovely sky lights. We knew they were the originals and would have to be replaced. Let me just tell you that sky lights are NOT cheap. We did get pretty decent prices on them and got 3 new ones this weekend along with tons of work done on our roof. Not shingles but roof work on the pipes. The men were here 4 hours on Saturday doing this stuff. The new sky lights are really pretty. We can actually see out of them now...



Sunday night we had storms roll in so along with new heat we were up hearing the storms. Then we come out to get ready and see one of the new sky lights has leaked. Lovely. We are just full of luck I tell you. Not easy fixes for this either.

And this next one... Just to remember where she is right this second. She's completely obsessed with these footie pj's of Maxum's. She found them in the closet at my parents house a few weeks ago and refuses to wear anything else to bed!!



And this is the greatest... doesn't ever Daddy with a daughter have a pic like this???


 Gracie dressed up her Daddy with her dress up clothes. She kept saying "Daddy, you are a fairy!" Ha, we were dying laughing!!!


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