Just some pictures from memorial day as it happens.

This is my new obession. It’s a game on the iphone called stick wars. It is really well done and is a classic flash game I used to play in the pc when I worked the long boring in the rec office. I’ll admit I actually paid for this one. Only 0.99, but so worth it! If you have an iphone, check it out. I think they have a free version, but you will get hooked and buy the full version, just warning you! Oh, and I’m using the cheats, so if you play and wonder about my scores from the screenshot… I’m a cheater.

Videos and Pictures from the last Cross Street Live until fall.  The cast (especially that awesome lady who plays Cammie!) did a great job, as did Michael and Nate.  Great time of worship for kids and their parents.  Awesome time.

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Kayce has long wanted to get rid of that large ugly portable dishwasher, and the big black microwave.  Both worked, but just didn’t go.  So, for her Birthday/Mother’s Day.  I decided to go ahead and do it.  The dishwasher invlolved getting someone to redo some of our cabinets since we didn’t have anywhere for a dishwasher to go.  That’s what stressed Kayce out and the reason we hadn’t done this yet.  We got a friend of our, Chad Anderson, to look at it.  He did a great job.  It’s not easy to make a 17inch deep cabinet into a 24inch deep cabinet.  He did it very well. 

I surprised Kayce the Saturday before mother’s day, and took her out to pick her appliances.  She was surprised, which doesn’t happen much.  She picked out a GE over-the-range microwave, and a Fridgadaire dishwasher.  I like the dishwasher very much, it has buttons on the top of the door, so they are hidden from little fingers, and the handle on the front really makes it look nice.  Well, Chad built the cabinets and did the plumbing, and I did the electrical (I got the easy part).  So, if you need any home improvments, call Chad Anderson! 

I added a couple of pictures of the painted cabinets now.

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Here’s a video I put together for Kayce last year for her 25th. I don’t why it’s taken me a year to put it up, but enjoy the next 11 minutes of pure Kayce!

Just some random pictures from our lives.  These seem to all involve Parker.  The rocks inside the gas door was pretty funny when I stopped for gas one day.  It really made me laugh out loud.  People looked at me weird, especially when I stopped to take a picture of my gas tank.  The dandelions are a Parker specialty.  He asked me one day to make a wish on one that he was about to blow, I said, “That we wouldn’t have anymore Dandelions in our yard”.  He heard, “That we would have more dandelions in our yard”.  So there you go.  We have more dandelions. 

Well, according to the National Weather Service (NOAA), see maps below, we are somewhere between 5 and 8 inches above our normal rainfall for the month.  Considering the month just started.  That seems like alot.  Anyway.  I always thought it was suppossed to be April showers bring May flowers!  Not May rain floods my house!!  Last night, Kayce and I were up late watching the storms.  About 3:00am, we started to head up stairs and Kayce noticed the floor at the base of the stairs was wet.  Not only was it wet…  It was saturated, sqwishy even.  So, with great trepidation, I looked in the garage.  Flooded. 

After the intial, “ARG”!  We started to move things out of the flood path to the center of the garage.  It wasn’t fun.  The water was coming in through the hole in the wall where our water line enters the house.  We have had this issue before but it a few years ago, and not this bad.  The water was FLOWING in.  Not a drip, not a trickle, flowing!  It was running under the wall into a storage area under our stairs and then out in the finished part of the downstairs.  What a mess.  I’m very thankful we had our clothes in plastic containers.  Everything in cardboard boxes (Kayce’s I Love Lucy memorbilia, and random books) was ruined.  We managed to get all of that out of the crawl space, which had about an 1inch of water in it.  And I set off to try to slow, if not stop, the leak. 

This leak is only a problem when the ground is completely saturated, which 8-10 inches in 14 days will do.  I had some plumber’s goop (silicon sealant/adhesive), and some rags at my disposal, so I got to work.  I pumped the hole around the pipe full of goop, and then shoved the rags into it.  The leak slowed, and after the goop had time to setup, it stopped!  Hallelujah!  So, we went to bed. 

This morning, most of the water had “gone” away.  I still have to mop up what’s left, and I’ve turned a fan on the crawl space to try to dry it out.  Only a small patch of carpet at the base of the stairs  was wet, so we may not need to replace it all.  Not that we love our carpet anyway, so this would be a good excuse.  Well, that was are night.  Now, everyone at once… “Rain, Rain, Go Away, Come Again in JUNE!