This past week I, Jess, worked on my plumbing skills. Of course I am merely limiting those skills to dismantling and unclogging toilets.

First thing last Wednesday morning I carried Anna down stairs and heard the upstairs toilet flush. Jack was standing in front of the toilet. I asked if he flushed anything down the toilet. NOW this is a reasonable question since about a week before he and a friend (Lily) tried to flush loofahs down the toilet and they didn't succeed, more on this later. Jack said he hadn't flushed anything but that “Blue car play hide and seek”. One flush of nothing but water confirmed that blue car was indeed playing hide and seek.

Apparently its time for your monthly update from us. In the last month its been a bit quiet here. Well, except for the fact that Damion has spent a little over two weeks traveling for work and the most recent trip was 8 days. During that time it was less than quiet here.  A quick warning, this is a bit long but informative.

This morning I was looking at the websites of some friends and noticed that most of them hadn’t updated their sites for several weeks and was a bit bummed by this.  While we are all Facebook friends and get updates that way and through phone calls, it is still nice reading what they want to share with the world at large.  That’s when I looked at our website and realized we hadn’t updated our site in a while.  So, “Hi Kettle, I’m Pot!”

Last weekend started like I'm sure everybody's did.  We purchased a new range and fridge and then proceeded to head home, put the kids to bed and started to take our kitchen apart.  What?  That's not what you did?  Oh...well, you have no idea all the extra sleep you got then.  Because I don't want to bore you twice with all the details, go on over to the January 2011 gallery folder and see and read what happened in the course of 53 hours at our house.  I realized i didn't mention the fact that we had some super helpers.  Adam & Nicole gave up a bunch of their weekend to spend it with us.  Damion & Adam took instructions from our foreman Anna while Jack joined Nicole and I running some errands and picking up meals.  Thanks for the extra hands!