Flash Back Friday

THE FLOOD OF 2007

This is going to be a long one :)

One year ago we were at Grey's River in Wyoming camping with my family. We were about 5 1/2 hours away from home with no phone reception. It was a great trip, the weather was wonderful & we just had a ton of fun. It was Saturday and we decided to pack up and head home. As soon as we got reception my phone started beeping like crazy. I had a ton of texts and a ton of voice mails. After reading and listening to all of them we found out that there was a terrible rain storm at home on Friday and our basement had flooded. The Jorgenson's (our next door neighbors who always look out for us) had looked over the fence and notice that our backyard was flooded and it was going into our window well. They told us at one point there was at least 5feet of water in our basement, the water ended up settling at around 12 inches. Tammy Jorgenson started calling anyone she could to try and track us down. She got a hold of my office who gave her the phone number to my in-laws. Tami & Wes called everyone else in the family and everyone was over to our place in no time ready to help. The Jorgenson's waded through the yucky water and were able to save some of my pictures and other important things to me before it got too bad.

Kennecott is building "Daybreak" right behind our house. They had been excavating the area to get ready for a new subdivision. There was no draining system set up yet, so when it started raining, the water had no where to go. I guess our house is the lowest elevation on my street so all the water went into our backyard. We were the only ones on the street that flooded. Kennecott took full responsibility for the damage and hired a disaster clean up crew to get it taken care of. By the time we got home on Saturday everything was out of the basement and they had huge fans drying the cement. All of my pictures where laid out in our spare bedroom drying, and all of our stuff was out on the grass drying. Most of the pictures didn't make it, and we threw away a lot of other stuff. I had just bought a brand new treadmill (not cheap) and had only used it a few times. They tried to clean it up, but it didn't make it :(

All of my in-laws were there helping clean up everything, including my messy house. When we got home on Saturday my house was spotless and the basement was clean. We just had to go through and decide what to throw away and what to keep. I am so grateful for our family. The whole drive home I was thinking how horrible it was going to be, and then to get there and they had done everything for us. We are so lucky to have family & friends that would drop what they were doing to help us. We love and appreciate all of you!

All of these pictures were taken by my Tami & Michelle.

Pictures

It's a good thing other people take pictures of my family :) I got both these pictures from my mother-in-law Tami.


This is Aunt Michelle on the wave runner with Halle and Beckham, don't worry Beckham didn't go for a ride :) but Aunt Michelle took Halle out and she loved it!


This is my cute husband acting like he's 18 again floating the river :) I'm just jealous I wish that I could have gone.

Lazy

I'm using the pregnancy card to justify my laziness!! Sorry I haven't been to up on my blogs lately. Work has been busy, I know weird huh! And I'm so tired by the time I get home. So... tonight I forced myself to blog, sad I know. You really didn't miss much, just two weekends :)

Hyrum Cousin's Party

This last weekend we went to Hyrum again. This time for my mother-in-law's family "Cousins Party." Her mom, Grandma Sherrill, was born and raised in Hyrum. It is such a beautiful place. We went up on Saturday morning and spent half the day playing at Hyrum Dam on Russ & Kimi's wave runners. For some reason I didn't get one picture while we were there, but we had a blast. Then we headed up the canyon to meet up with everyone else. There were a lot of people there, and a lot of kids. Halle absolutely loved it! She cried when we had to leave. They had so many fun activities for the kids to do. Halle painted some rocks she found, made a bead necklace and decorated a cute little visor to wear. The funnest part for her was the Pinata. First of all,it was a giraffe, her favorite animal and second she was first to hit with the bat. She loved it! I almost forgot, Wes, Russ & Kimi took tubes down the river. My father-in-law dropped them off a little ways up the river and we all waited for them to come floating down. Again, I don't have any pictures of that either. What was wrong with me this weekend! These are what I do have:


Halle swinging at the pinata


a nice follow through


Grandpa, Grandma & little Beckham, soooo cute!

Camping at Soapstone

This is our family trip to Soapstone. We normally do this camping trip in Wyoming at Grey's River. With gas prices as high as they are we decided to camp somewhere a little closer to home. It was so beautiful, and had lots of trails for Wes to take the ranger on. On Saturday Wes, my brother Jim and Halle went on a ride. The sun had just gone down so it was starting to get dark. I was surprised to see them back so quick until they told me they saw a bear! You have to hear Halle say it, it's is so funny. She holds her arms out as far as they go and says "He was this big and he said ROAR!" The bear didn't really roar, but Halle loves saying it did. Overall, it was a great trip!


Halle in the back seat of the Ranger


Me and Halle hanging out by the fire


Makayla, Wes & Halle catching butterflies


Wes & Halle on Tim's dirt bike


Tracey, Chantelle, & Jeremy in their ranger.


Halle just hanging out by the fire, she's such a dork!


Halle driving her jeep around the camp.