December

Out with the old

And in with the new

The transmission was starting to go in our old washer (it's only 30 years old) so we had to get a new one. So far I have really liked the new ones, they clean great, but it does take soooo long to wash.

We had a bit of damage from the wind storm but nothing too serious. We lost some sections of our fence, some shingles from our roof and some other edging and pieces from our roof and porch. Our power was only out for about 10 hours, so it got a bit cold but we were grateful to get it back after only 10 hours. My grandparents waited a day and a half to get their power back. Aidan was a little upset by all the noise and howling (some of the pieces of our roof were banging against his bedroom wall). Once the sun came up he enjoyed watching out the window as the shingles and debris flew around outside. Calder (who is usually a terrible sleeper) managed to sleep through all the noise and got up at his usual time. Grandma suggested we make him a lullaby tape of howling wind and things banging into the house to help him sleep since that seems to be the only thing that helps.

Driving around the neighborhood everything looked like a disaster. There were plenty of people who had worse damage than ours and there were trees down all over town. A giant evergreen (maybe 20 or 30 feet tall) was across the street in our neighborhood and the homeowner had draped some tinsel on the top and added a sign that said "Free Christmas Tree". I should have taken a picture but I was driving and when we went back it was already being cleaned up.

Molly enjoyed some extra freedom while the fences between our yard and our two neighbors were down. She loved playing with all the kids!

This is the roof over our garage. We can see the sky from inside our garage now!

These is where the pieces of trim on the room were pulling off and banging against the house, right outside Aidan's room

This is the part of our roof that got the worst of it, right over poor Aidan's room.

Luckily our insurance is covering the damages. We had to wait over a week for an adjustor to come out but now that is done and the roofers are up working on the repairs right now. Hopefully they can get it finished quickly before it starts snowing again!

Random picture of Molly and Aidan looking out the window together

Aidan helping decorate the Christmas tree

Calder just wanted to take the ornaments off the tree

Aidan in front of the tree (can you tell how happy he is to be taking this picture?)

The boys wrestling