Philly, House Drama, a birthday party and lots of snow!

Yesterday we were able to go to Philly and visit with some of Laneah's birth family. We saw the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and ate lunch at Jim's Steakhouse (very famous, not that great though). After our touring, we went to Laneah's aunts house where we enjoyed a delicious dinner and had a good time laughing and playing. Laneah's two little cousins were there too and were so cute. Laneah also got to see her grandmother for the first time since she was born. It was a fun trip!


House woes: 1) about three weeks ago I was at the kitchen sink and for whatever reason I looked up at the ceiling and noticed a bulge. Yep, I pushed it and water came out. Jason removed the damaged water-soaked dry wall and said that the upstairs hallway bathroom was leaking but that he would be able to fix it. Three weeks later....it is not fixed and there is a giant hole in my ceiling still. However, in Jason's defense he was still helping his grandpa's company and so he was gone all the time. 2) Another leak. A week after the ceiling incident, I opened the cabinet underneath the kitchen sink to get some dishwashing soap and realized there was a leak. This time it was the garbage disposal. 3) Electrical problems. For about a month now, the lights in our bedroom have been flickering. It is annoying, it is like having a strobe light in your bedroom! Last week, the lights completely went out as well as the outlet next to the light. Then two days ago, Jason plugged his cell phone charger in one of the outlets in the bedroom that worked, and the lights came back on. We figured that it just needed a jolt and it was fine. But yesterday, before we left for Philly, we smelled something burning in our bedroom. The outlet had caused a small electrical fire! Luckily we hadn't left yet so we turned off the breaker and it was fine. However, I am back with no light in my bedroom...for now.....

Saturday was our nephew Anthony's 4th birthday party. The theme was a Monster Truck party. Anthony and one of our other nephews, Blake both have little four wheeler type cars and the kids raced them at the party, it was so funny. Laneah didn't want anything to do with the games or the people there. She clung to me until she saw all the balloons, she is crazy about them right now. She wouldn't calm down until she had all the balloons in her possession:)

And last night and today it snowed and snowed and snowed! I took Laneah outside this morning to let her play in the snow. We were outside for about 3 minutes:) She was happy until she stumbled in the snow and as soon as her face got wet, she was done. She looked really cute all bundled up though:)