Christmas came a little early ..

Whew, we have spent all day getting McKay and Ryan's early Christmas present all ready. But, let me back track....First of all, we had a flood. We didn't think it was that bad, but when we were at church last Sunday, and we were in Sunday school, we were talking about the floods in the scriptures and little did we know, we were having a flood at our house. A hose had come undone from the washing machine and flooded that room, and our crawl space. Water ran for 2 1/2 hours straight, until my dad (who just wanted to come to our house and make dinner for us on Sunday), got there. He shut off the valve and came and got us out of church. It took over 3 hours to shop vac all of the water out of the crawl space. Our yearbooks, and home movies were ruined, as well as our luggage. We got through that ordeal ok, but then two days later, our flooring started curling up in our kitchen. So, we called the insurance , and they had us call Varney Clean care. They have been here all week, tearing up our flooring in the laundry room, kitchen, and dining room, and running big fans, heaters, and humidifiers all day and night. Cailee and I still taught all week, but it was a mess and so loud. They came again today, and it's still not dry in the wall behind where the washer and dryer were, so they are coming tomorrow to check. We really need get that washer and dryer hooked up!! Anyway, the insurance will replace all the flooring in the downstairs, because it's all the same and needs to match. They don't make this same color since we bought it at Costco 4 years ago and can't get it anymore. Well, we are going to put tile in the laundry room, even if we have to pay a little more. The one positive thing about it is, we will get all new flooring and trim, but what a mess and a nightmare. And we are out our $500.00 deductible, right at Christmas. But the reason Christmas came early, is our wall unit/TV stand thing came today, and we set it up with the new TV on it. Ryan and McKay walked in from the big Championship Game it was set up. ( I had help from the boys who do stunting with the cheerleaders) Of course nothing worked, but Ryan has been working on it for about 5 hours. With a little help from our Bishop and all of Ryan's hard work, the Tivo, internet, phones and cable all work. Ryan and I keep telling McKay, " Remember this feeling now, so when you wake up Christmas morning, just remember how you feel now..." Hope that works!! The bad thing will be we have to do this all again when we get our new floors. Plus, we haven't added the shelf above the TV because we will have to take it apart again.