So, over the last few weeks, we have had an anything but "normal" life! The last week of August found us camping a couple of nights...as we were close to being able to live in the house. The carpet in the family room got installed the last Wednesday of August. We got TV hooked up the next day (Thursday) and decided to camp on the family room floor that night. (We brought over our hide-a-bed couch and the boys slept on/in their sleeping bags.)
Interesting things about our first few days...it was 100% humidity and pretty warm temps the first several days. But we still managed to feel comfy at night...in sleeping bags. We had a toilet that mostly worked (a couple days later we were able to find plaster debris in the pipes which was causing the random back up of water in the toilet and the tub). We showered at the high school or at Jack and Debbie's for the next 5 days until we had the water softener and a hot water heater working.
So, we slowly found ways to feel "settled" among the massive amount of mess around us. Joe managed to take naps...wherever we could find a place to lay him down. He found this spot on his own one day as Josh and I spent the afternoon digging in the mud for a pipe.
In other news...
We didn't have clean water the first several days we were in the house. So, we brushed our teeth on the front porch (spitting out into the yard...lots of fun for sure).
The boys enjoyed playing with toys...and built this microphone stand and guitar (to mimic Josh playing at church)...except they thought to add a box for people to throw money into.
Jake and his critters...
One afternoon we headed out to search for worms to put in a jar. We were also trying to attract ants with some honey on some crackers. So, Jake is watching patiently for ants.
We have praying mantis's all over the place.
Here is the toad/frog we found in the garage...
We finally found worms (after digging several holes around the yard)
The boys and Daisy!
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