Seasons Greetings!

We have had a very exciting holiday season so far, full of suprises!  We started our Christmas festivities with Erik’s parents and brother Travis who stopped to visit us on their way down to NC to visit Erik’s other brother.  We had a lot of fun spending time together.  We played some fun games and Erik made us some delicious dinners!  Just before they left we had quite an adventure when one of our pipes burst in our FINISHED basement!  It flooded almost the entire basement, so we spent the day cleaning up and moving furniture!  Eventually we had to call a professional clean up crew who pulled up our carpet and took out all the padding from underneath.  They also had to tear out a few baseboards and some piecesof drywall.  Thank goodness for insurance.  Lucky for us my dad is an excellent plumber, so he fixed the pipes for us.  Then we got to spend a few days with my parents and Rhys had his FIRST visit from Santa!  He got toys, clothes, fruit, and  his own nutcracker (a Nieman tradition started by Erik’s parents!)  Rhys had lots of fun opening his gifts, and he loved playing with the wrapping paper and boxes!

We all enjoyed the visitors, and it was great having Erik’s family there when our basement flooded!  Seriously!  It wasn’t much fun, but 5 pairs of hands is a lot better than 2!  Now we are just waiting for the insurance adjustor to come decided what it will cost to fix everything.  Then, let the fun begin…haha…it is going to take a lot of work to fix our basement   We still have all our carpet ripped up and can’t put any furniture back until things are fixed.

I have plenty of pictures of the festivities and the chaos, and will post them shortly.  Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and a less eventful Holiday week than us