Fire

So A few weeks ago we had quite a scary mishap. I accidentally left a burner on low after breakfast which caused a kitchen fire a few hours later because i had put Embry's high chair try on top of the stove after I cleaned it. We were all upstairs and thank God the fire alarm went off. The boys and I rushed outside and Wes went in and found the fire. He ran back outside calling 911 with the scariest look I have ever seen on his face. He went back in and turned off the burner while the 911 dispatcher yelled at him to get out. We ran across the street to a neighbors and prayed and prayed until the firetrucks came and put it out. When they opened our back door, smoke billowed out from the kitchen so we had no idea how much damage was done. God truly spared us and our house. We had only minimal kitchen damage and a big mess to clean up. The firemen were even surprised at the minimal damage. They brought in huge fans to air out a lot of the smoke and removed our oven which was demolished. My parents came and took the boys for the rest of the weekend while Wes and I cleaned up every inch. We decided after some advice from a fireman we know to do all the cleaning ourselves. I think it was more physically and emotionally exhausting than even moving ever was. There was dust and soot and ash all over our kitchen and had spread to cover everything in the living room too,
so we had to clean, blinds, curtains, our couch and remove everything and wash it from all our cabinets and drawers. We could not complain one bit because we were constantly shuddering at what it could have been. I still cannot believe how God spared us. Anyway, today we finally got our new microwave installed so I wanted to blog that the clean up is officially over! It took awhile but we are just so thankful and so glad to have our kitchen back. Unfortunately with the boys allergies, we can't just eat out likemost families so we knew we had to have our kitchen working asap. We finally got the oven installed last week but I was amazed at how much we could do with an extra microwave we had on hand, crockpot and grill! Here are a few photos so we can remember the damage and a photo of the boys enjoying our new oven when we made Easter cookies last week.The door has a window so they love to watch things cook now!

Embers 12 mos

Boys enjoying the chairs in our living room until our couch was cleaned

Embry one morning-he looks so old!

I love that A is able to feed Embry now when I am needing some extra help. He's such a goof pretending to eat the food. Embry isn't too happy about it. He's become pretty grouchy about his food lately.

Kiss from Collin.

Painting in the bathtub later. I absolutely love this photo!