Our blessing in disguise.....

So most of you know about our basement disaster...but if you don't I will explain. On June 20th Toledo had a terrible storm and our nice half finished basement began to flood. All of the sewer drains backed up on our street and actually in all of Lucas county. Our basement was filled with 8-10 inches of nasty drain water and we had to throw away our couches and our chairs. Luckily Adam's parents and brother had got there beds up on bed frames that day or their mattresses would have been ruined. It was a disaster! And a week before we left for vacation! I filed a claim and we couldn't get to it until after we came back from Colorado. We really didn't think that we would get much because we had a thousand dollar deductable but our insurance guy came to look at everything anyway. Before we left Adam tore out the carpet and we threw away the furniture. We had to scrape the floor because it had glue on it and we scrubbed in with bleach. It was a lot of work...but we didn't want it to start molding!

When we got back from our vacation we noticed on the news that Lucas County was considered a distaster area and we might be able to get federal aide for the things that our insurance wouln't pay for. So FEMA came out to look too. They both came to look on the same day and the insurance guy wrote me a check for $2000 and just yesterday FEMA deposited $3600 dollars in our account to cover the couches and valuables we lost!!! I am in shock!!! and I praise GOD!!!! He provides more than we could ever ask or think! Now we can redo and finish off the basement and get some new furniture down there. ISn't God Good!

We are back...

Our trip to Colorado was amazing and I can't wait to put pictures up on here... It will be a few days though and let me explain. We got home the 10th of July and had a pretty busy week of unpacking and such but we also had no internet until Thursday night. Adam left Friday for a wedding in Chicago...one of his good friends got married. Friday night I got deathly ill and I was running a fever and throwing up. ( I never get flu-sick like that!) The next day was aweful I couldn't even get out of bed and then my lower back hurt so I figured I probably had a kidney infection. I went to the ER Sat night at around 11:00 pm and they did a Cat Scan to see if I had kidney stones and I ended up having APPENDICITIS!! Aughh! So yesterday I had to have surgery of all things!!!! Crazy huh? I am home now and just a little sore but I could use some prayer for a fast healing. I found out that I have to have another surgery in about 3 months because my gall bladder is full of stones. He said it was like a coin purse. OH well! Anyway...that is why you haven't heard from me in a while. I hope all is well with everyone!!!! I will put up pics of Colorado soon!