While We Were Away

I've had a bit of writer's block since we returned from our Mexican vacation. Turns out, the mundane details of life seem less blog-worthy when you've just spent five days by the ocean where people waited on you hand and foot.

Not much new around here since we returned from our trip. Our office in the basement is back to normal after the pipe burst inside the wall the week before our trip. It was a cluster dealing with the clean-up company, as per usual with those sort of things. It's all said and done so whatever, but I did learn a few things about dealing with contractor-type people. (AKA: get every word they say in writing, less one worker tell you one thing and another one completely jack up the estimate days later because "that guy shouldn't have told you that"). I felt embarrassed Andi had to call and complain to the company after they were giving me the run-around because he asked me to handle the project but whatever, it's done and over. I will be writing an Angie's List review on our experience since that's how we discovered the company in the first place.

In other flood-related news, we returned home from the cabin yesterday afternoon to find our entire garage flooded with water. Somehow a pipe valve got turned "on" while were were away this weekend (??) and when we opened the garage door, water poured out of there. Thankfully the water was contained to our garage only (strange) and the valve seemed to have just been turned on (even stranger since no one was here and our garage was locked) but no harm done. February shall now be renamed "Floodageddon 2013."

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In other more adorable news ...

Andi dumped photos off his camera last night and found these gems of Tory, Grandma and Grandpa while we on away on vacation. It makes me happy to see how Tory spent her days while we were on vacation. Honestly, it wasn't hard leaving her for a few days because I knew she was in such capable hands with Andi's family. We're so lucky to have them in our lives.

Here is Tory's weekend in photos while Mommy and Daddy were away:

Painting a new water color picture she received in her Valentine's gift from Mom and Dad

Cheese face

Playing outside in the snow with Grandpa Jim

Sledding in her pink cowboy boots - Ha!

Reading the newspaper, as one does on the weekend

Typical Tory face when she doesn't want her picture taken

Welcome home Mommy and Daddy!