Our Last Couple Days...Our Next Couple Days

We have had a CRAZY chain of events the last two days...

It started with pulling a load of laundry out of the dryer and all the clothes looked like this:

Brick red crayon creeped into the laundry and scattered its waxy color all over our clothes - it looks as if someone was bleeding everywhere from some horrible crime. But it all came from one darn crayon.

Which prompted a quick call to mom and an internet search of how to get melted dried crayon out of clothes and off the inside of my dryer.

So a little (actually a lot) of this...A cup of this...

Throw it all back in the washer with these:

And walla, we should get clean clothes again ... I hope! Oh - the dryer came clean with a lot of elbow grease and a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.

I don't know if it worked yet though, we are just barely getting to the washing of it all, because of this...

Until this afternoon we had a four foot long and 2-3 foot deep hole in our front yard! We have had a soggy spot in our yard since we moved in. We mentioned it on our walk through and it was brushed off because of recent rain. Despite many other efforts to have our builder follow through with their warranty (the builder has since gone under leaving us with a useless 2 year warranty) - we still had a soggy spot in the yard. We had a landscaper (figuring it was the irrigation) come out to look at it and fix it. They found no leak the first time they came, but they came again yesterday and found the problem. A puncture hole in our main water line. Landscapers arent plumbers and are not allowed by law to fix it. So...three trips to Lowes later at 11:00 at night we were still trying to fix it (and along the way the line was cut - so we were completely without water). I had already begun treating the crayon stains with the in anticipation of the leak being fixed, so I had clothes soaked with WD-40 and it was all over the kitchen floor where I was working. We needed water! We drove to the closest friend that we would dare call that late and loaded up as many big containers of water as we could. It was enough to soak the clothes with the Dawn in my bathrub and have a glass of water and brush our teeth.

Brandon was up and at the plumbing store at 7:30 this morning, and then a second and a third. Apparently the type of pipe they used on our house isn't too common. He attempted again to fix the leak, however it left him frustrated, muddy, and late for work without a shower to shower in. He thought he'd fix it enough to take a shower, but that resulted in flooding the yard. So, I called a plumber (the third place he visited today - props to Miller and Miller Plumbing in Denton) and they came out at 1:00 this afternoon to fix it. Brandon almost had it, the pipe just needed to be shoved in more before tightening down the compressor. Thats okay though - because - WE HAVE WATER NOW!! Hooray. Now I need to finish the stain treating and clean up the last days worth of dishes that have piled up and get ready for our next couple of days while we get to spend time with my sister and her family.

Yeah - we are so excited to see Aunt Amy, Uncle Will and Baby Aiden!