December 2009

So after our house got all finished and we were all moved in, the plumbing decided that it did not like the carpet in the basement, and backed up to flood the basement. Ugh... hard lesson learned. Every time when Hunter would use the bathroom, he would use baby wipes, and then flush them. I had no idea that you were not supposed to do that so apparently 198 wipes later, the plumbing backed up, (just secondary water), and flooded the basement. Russy and I left on one great Saturday to go have dinner and do all of our Christmas shopping SLC. We got home at about 10:30, walked down stairs, and SQUISH! Yuck... the floors were all soggy. We had to call rotor-rooter, a water restoration company, and the contractor back out to the house. They ripped up the walls and all of the flooring in the basement... we JUST had everything painted and walls done down there. The following week they had 5 great big air movers in the basement drying everything out.

Christmas was quickly approaching and in all hopes that the basement would be completed by then fell through but we still had such a great time. Christmas Eve we went to Aunt Debbie and Uncle Bob's house to spend time with Stu and the whole Wilde side. We had a such a great dinner and played games. We got home at about 11 put Hunter in his Christmas jammies and put him into bed... once he was asleep "Santa" came and loaded under the tree up with gifts... at 6:30am we woke Hunter up and surprised him with, "Santa came"!!! He was so excited and jumped up out of bed and ran out to the living room. He was so excited and the first thing he saw was his peddle fire truck that Santa brought him. He sat in it and opened most of his presents in it. The last gift that he opened was his new train table from Pippy and Poppop. He was so excited but was so bummed when we told him that it would be a couple of weeks until we could set it up because his play room was broken from the flood. So then we got ready and went down to Provo to see Sheryl, Andy, and Scott. Russy's mom Sheryl was so sweet and had gifts there for all of us to open as soon as we arrived and made a great breakfast. Then we headed over the Grandma and Grandpa Wilde's house for breakfast again and gifts. After spending a couple of hours there we went over to Russy's cousin Kati's house for Christmas luner with Sheryl's family. There were so many kids for Hunter to play with and he had a blast. Kati's house was so adorable and everyone was so much fun. Grandpa Vern and Grandma Dawn gave us all some wonderful books and really enjoyed visiting with us. After we left there, we went back over to the Wilde's for a bit, played some cards, and then went home. Saturday we rested for a while and then headed back down to Provo to spend time with Stu before he had to go back to OR. We had such a great Christmas and can't wait for next year!!