JANUARY HAPPENINGS!!!!

WOW!!!I can't believe it's 2011 and now January is over already. This year is already going by way too fast. As I'm looking through my January pics I see that I should have posted some of these a long time ago. So that just means a long post.

We had a pretty big snow storm at the end of December and beginning of January. It's been a very long since I have driven in snow, and so I just stayed home as long as possible. Our pipes froze on New Year's Eve. We didn't have water for a few days. Thanks to my cousin Sharilyn for allowing me to come fill up my water containers a couple of times. Byron was on call that Sat. When he got home he had to crawl under our home and see why they froze, besides the fact that temperatures were below 0 the previous night. Apparently, one of the electrical pipe heaters was broken, thus frozen pipes. So he went to Home Depot to buy another pipe heater. He bought two. He attached them along the entire water pipe under our trailer. Thus to prevent another water freeze. Landen was right under the trailer with him the whole time. What a trooper. By then it was after 5pm and the sun had gone down so it was REALLY cold outside. It was so cold and he was so worn out that he left a few things unfinished. So if I wanted my pipes to thaw out I was going to have to take care of it. Which was fine since Byron is so worn out. Byron has been working like a million hours every week and it is just killing him. He is so worn out. So to be working a lot then to have to fix the frozen pipes, it just took the rest of whatever he had left, out of him. When he walked in the house, he just plopped down on the table bench. He started to shake and act really weird. His tongue was hanging out and his couldn't really talk. I swear he was in like a hypothermia shock or something like that. So I took his boots off, his snow pants and helped him walk to the couch. I had him lay down and I got a really heavy blanket for him. I hated seeing him like that. I broke down and told him how I hated how he works so much and too hard and I didn't care if they fired him he was NOT going to work the following day. He ended up getting sick with a fever and a cold. And he did NOT go back to work until Tuesday. It seemed to take forever for the pipes to thaw out. I had to go to Sharilyn house to shower before church. Thank goodness our church time just changed to 11:30 or else I wouldn't have made it if it was still at 9. By Sunday evening, we finally had water again. YEAH!!!
Once it warmed up a little, I finally let the kids go outside and play in the snow. They had a blast. Mostly Landen. He loves it. He will walk out of his way just to walk in a pile of snow.