Just this past week before it got really bad, I thought I would let Eli play in the rain. (This is the fun moment) Why not, all kids should get a chance to do that - right? He LOVED it. He would run out, laugh, run back...this continued for 10 minutes or more. He thought it was the greatest thing. When I finally brought him inside, soaking wet...he wanted to go back out for more. I love the innocence and freedom of a child. Little things are so fun and the highlight of the day and in the midst of it all, nothing else matters.
Here comes the not so fun part...by the weekend we noticed water in our basement, lots of it. So we quickly started finding buckets, shop vacs, towels and anything we could to stop the water. Bryan and I had a little "rigged" system going that seemed to help us keep up with the water a little bit, but by Sunday afternoon it was too much. It had been a long weekend...pulling all-nighters, running up and down to the basement to make sure it was not overflowing our "system". Some friends came over to help us and came up with an even more clever idea to by us more time in between pumping gallons upon gallons of water out of the basement. There were two rooms in the basement that flooded, our back storage room and one of the bedrooms. Thankfully, nothing got ruined just a few minor damages and repairs. At least out of all of this we found were the leaks are so we know what needs to be fixed and our thankful it was not worse.
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