8/25/14
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| Dawn Wright alerting neighbors that help is needed! |
Been a super busy fast week. After we talked to you Monday afternoon a big flash flood came through our town. Several homes got major amounts of water in their homes. Do you remember the Olsen's from Pioneer Circle (truck drivers that lived behind us, Felicity Olsen's grandparents)? They had recently redone their basement from a flood a year ago and they got hit again. Not happy campers.
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| Flooding yards in hobble creek |
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| Keith Jones yard, across the street from us |
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| Ali Lane became Ali River |
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| Holly Lane and Ali Lane |
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| Carnevale's driveway is in the street |
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| Sister Rae working hard to clean water out of the house |
Also the Carnevale's (our primary president's family). They just moved in to Hobble Creek in March and live up against the dog park almost...next to Clark's house. They got the whole of Washington City dumped into their home. It was awful. I'll send some pictures in a separate email. So we were going to have a swim party on Monday night. The storm cancelled it. So we were going to go to Grandma's and make Jelly and the storm cancelled that too. Instead we spent hours at Carnevale's house sweeping water out of their house and trying to clean and dry the mess.
They had to remove all the base boards and dry wall up to about knee high. And all their carpet and pads. Probably $15k worth of damage. Sickening really.
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| Carnevale's backyard |
I got to go to the dentist this week and got out without any cavities (of course Dr. Hall didn't even come in so maybe I have some but nobody saw them!) My appointment was 8 a.m. and they said he sometimes has a hard time getting there for the early appointments. Silly, huh.
Marlee came over for her birthday for a little while. We got her some "grown up girl" presents for her birthday. Some of the grab and go laundry soap tablets, dishwasher soap and dish soap. Not really fun at all but I think she needed all that stuff for her apartment. She was excited and nervous. She was leaving the next morning to go up North. I'll have to ask her how she's doing. I saw her post that she made it up but haven't talked to her to see how she likes the roommates and stuff. Should be a busy day today. First day of school.
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| Nice pool if you like murky water... |
Dallas' first day of school too. He seems pretty ready to move forward with education and stuff now. He has his schedule worked out so that he can work 8 - 2 every day and then has classes from 3-9:30 (not every day...) He is signed up for 18 credits but I think he'll drop at least 1 class. He is just trying to decide for sure which one. He has to take 12. And he has to get good grades to get $500 scholarship from Discount Tire. They pay at the end. So he has to put out the $ first and if he does well get paid. His grant is paying for his tuition but he has to buy all his books, parking pass and like $35 of tuition or something. So not a free ride completely. He is signed up to take Math, Philosophy, Photography, History, coop (work study), and an online computer course. They are all 3 credits each.
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| Barefoot Holly working hard with Sister Rae |
Holly just started working on the American Eagle Award (didn't you earn that?) Do you remember, was that really hard to earn? I found some songs on the internet that sing the constitution, declaration of independence, Gettysburg address, states and capitols, presidents and the star spangled banner. They are like mostly 2 minutes each. I told her if she'll listen to them every night before bed she should have everything memorized in no time. She loves to sing anyway.
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| Andy working outside with the guys |
Katie is a reading fool. She is on book 7 of that Ranger Series she was working on and every time she finishes one she can't wait for the next one. She read for 4 hours yesterday morning.
The young men and women went to the temple Saturday. They had a really good turn out. Like 20 with adults and kids. Last day the temple is open for 3 weeks so a pretty busy afternoon.
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| Crew hard at work |
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| Katie and Genesis |
Grandma and grandpa are doing good. Did you hear about their a/c leak? They had to have their whole inside living room ceiling torn out, dried out and replaced. Holly found it the day we left her there to take you to the MTC. They just this last couple of days finally finished cleaning up that whole mess. (Carpet cleaning, re doing the ceiling, painting etc.) Can't even tell anything happened although it was pretty big mess for a little while. Lots of dust and stuff.
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| Fire Department came to help out too |
Well I hope you are doing great and working hard and staying happy. We love you and miss you! Really enjoy being facebook friends with Nakita Cuevas. She rocks. Tell her thank you so much for sharing pictures of you. That has been so fun to see you hard at work!
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| Assessing the damage |
Can't wait to hear about your week! Love you XOXO mom.
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