Welcome Home!

So we arrived home last night around 8 pm from Canada. We unpacked the van and told the kids to get ready for bed. As Derek and I were listening to messages on the anwsering maching, the girls came up from downstairs (still in clothes) and I got mad at them for not being in jammies. Well, Katelyn quickly told us that their carpet in their bedroom was wet!! To which Maloree quickly replied, "I didn't pee on it mom, I promise!" So Derek and I right away knew that our basement had flooded. We went downstairs and sure enough their whole bedroom was wet! Luckily it had just started to seep out into the family room! We put all the kids to bed upstairs and then proceeded to remove everything from the girls room. Katelyn had left her wheat bag (a bag full of wheat that you warm in the microwave at night to stay warm) on the floor and it was sprouting wheat (kind of crazy), so we knew that it had happened during the big hail storm that hit Minot about a week earlier! Anyway, Derek and I spent the better part of the next 3 hours cleaning out the girls room, tearing out their carpet and throwing it away, lifting the carpet in the family room to try and salvage it, and mopping the girls floor to try and stop any growth of mold that may have began! I am so tired today and I think that it is unfair to have to come home to something like that after a fun trip to visit family! Oh well, at least we still have a house, and I get to go and pick new carpet very soon! I really should be blogging about our vacation to Canada but I am all too tired, so sorry no pics for now, just me whining about water damage!!