Why I've been lacking in the blog area...

So, at first I was lacking because I was getting adjusted to a 2nd baby. But now there's so many more reasons it might get sporadic on the blogging front.

On the 20th, Emily, Elaina, and I left the house around 10 am for a full day of running around. We had Elaina's 2 week check up, I had to stop by work, we went to lunch with friends, and then that evening I had a pre-sale for a consignment sale. It was a fantastic day, that is until about 10 pm. I'm still in line at the consignment sale and Steve calls. He has just gotten home and says our house is flooded. I thought he was crying wolf, but then I heard the smoke detectors in the background and then I noticed the sheer panic in his voice.

I rush to my parent's house to get the girls and head home. Can I just say for once in Steve's live he was not exaggerating! Apparently, Emily had clogged the toilet before we left and the toilet was running for 12 hours straight. The entire house was flooded, except the kitchen. I was in shock at the amount of water in our house!

We called the insurance company - by the way, don't ever let your homeowners insurance lapse!!! They sent out ServPro to dry everything out. They came in and pretty much demo'd my house in 30 minutes! Dry wall, carpet, vinyl, toilets, and the list continues. I think I cried pretty much the entire weekend!

We have now met with the adjuster and feel much better. Our dear friend Jason is going to be the contractor and has already started getting the ball rolling. It looks like we are going to be living with Steve's parents for about a month or a little more.

Here's what it looked like when ServPro was finished with the drying out, just to give you an idea:

This is my laundry room. The washer and dryer are now in my garage. And there's actually a little section in the dry wall that is open to the garage and there's a section open to the section underneath my stairs, which is open to the crawl space.

This is our Master Bath Floor, you can see where the water stopped.

These pictures are of my closet. Yes, all my clothes and shoes were damaged. They are trying to salvage the clothes, but they don't know if they are going to be able to do anything for my shoes!

This is from our bedroom looking into the living room.

This is the ceiling in the downstairs hallway.

This is the top of our stairs. And the hallway upstairs.

This is the bathroom where it all started.

And this is the Bonus Room. There was even more damage in the garage, but I didn't get pictures of it for some reason.

Fortunately, none of our furniture was hit! And I keep all of our important papers and all of my scrapbooking and pictures in my closet! God was really looking out for us by not letting any of it get wet!

First Day at Church...

When we had Emily we took her to church when she was less than 1 week old, and so we wanted to take Elaina that first week too. Being at church is such an uplifting feeling to me that I didn't want to stay away! This little dress is the same dress Emily wore her first time to church, so I thought it would be perfect for Elaina although it was too big. She was great at church - slept the entire time! Hopefully she will keep it up! And the best part - we were there on time and no arguments about us running late!!! Now that's a God thing! :)

Happy Valentine's Day...

I know it's late, I do have a good reason (which I will be blogging about shortly). These were the morning of Valentine's Day. We went to the Adventure Science Museum with Kristin and Christopher. We had never been, and it was so much fun!!! Emily had a blast!! And so did her Daddy! We will definitely be going back!

It looks like my mom and sister had fun too!

More Visitors...

I told you we had so many visitors that I couldn't put them all in one post. It definitely reminds Steve and I just how blessed we are! A lot of my pictures from the hospital ended up blurry, so I can't download those, but we also had lots of visitors once we were home. Several of our friends from church brought us dinner that first week, thank goodness! I don't think I would have been able to cook that week! Lisa Baker brought dinner over on Sunday and brought Makayla and the Hines twins with her. We finally know how to tell the twins apart - which is so exciting because I never know which one I'm talking to! I think that's part of the reason God has not blessed me with twins - I'm not observant enough to be able to tell them apart! Then on Tuesday Michelle brought the girls over because they were dying to meet Elaina. Although, I think they were more excited to play with Emily. Caleb was a little jealous of Michelle holding Elaina. We've had lots more visitors, but some how I can't find the pictures. I'll update more once I find them.

Being a Big Sister...

I was pretty nervous about how Emily would do with me having to give my attention to someone other than her, but she has been a fantastic big sister. She absolutely loves her "sissy"! And I love the fact that she calls Elaina her sissy. I used to call my sister that and it brings a smile to my face to think Emily is going to have a sister bond with Elaina, like I did (and still do) with Candy.

I'm breastfeeding but Emily was dying to feed Elaina a bottle, so I let her feed Elaina some water. Elaina liked it and Emily loved being able to give a bottle to Elaina. Emily's reaction to me breastfeeding was hilarious! She looked at me with pure disgust and said "That's gross." I couldn't help but laugh!

This picture is so sweet to me! I love the fact that Emily was feeding her baby while aunt Candy fed Elaina.