Thanksgiving in Rewind!

What a week! Spent most of it in the car but such is life. First (Nov. 22nd) we hit the road to Seguin and saw Ryan's family for two days. Reese enjoyed her time with her Oma and Opa. We got to visit with the great-grandparents and Ryan's Omie had Reese figured out. She pulled out the old kitchen toys from when the boys were little. Reese had a field day cooking hot dogs and iced tea for Omie and Opie. When we saw Omie again on Monday for a family funeral, Reese remembered Omie right away and said she wanted to go to her house and cook. I think she made Omie's day.
We hit the road next and headed to Kingwood. Got to visit with the fun Gertz/Judson crew and Chips. We also of course saw Nana and Pop-pop and Grandma and Grandpa. Once again Reese kept them all entertained and we're all ready to see each other again in a few weeks for X-mas. Nana bought Reese some Elmo underwear and my child is in 7th heaven. Next it was off to College Station for the football game. We got to tailgate, see our friends, and hang out with that crazy Chips in the hotel room for the game. Leslie and I made it the entire first half before we had to turn off the TV and all the lights to try and get Reese to fall asleep.
Unfortunately our trip got cut short as we got a call from our house sitters that our water heater broke and flooded the house. We headed home Friday morning for day 5 in the car and did some damage control. We thankfully found a plumber Friday afternoon who had the water heater we needed so we were back in business. Yesterday we got the fans and dehumidifiers to dry out the place. We lost a bunch of Reese's books to water, but we'll hook her up with some new ones. Other than that we were REALLY lucky that our good friends cleaned up the water for us and were even checking on the house to let us know what had happened. I don't want to think about what would have happened if no one had been by. It would have been standing water for at least 2 days before we would have arrived home.
Reese made a bed for herself at MiMi's house.

Reese and Chewie. Sadly the day before Thanksgiving we had to put Chewie down. As some of you know she had gotten really sick, and was not getting any better despite all our efforts. She dropped ten pounds since Oct. and was just not herself. It was really hard but she's not suffering anymore.

What happens when you ask your two year old to smile for the family Christmas picture.

The current state of my house. Baseboards are gone and we're in the "drying out" process. It POURED today. I'm talking monsoon. Notice I am also utilizing the fans to dry off my shoes. Might as well kill two birds with one stone.

The Dehumidifier. Come to my house this week and you're have AWESOME hair days.

The blowers!