--In February Stony and I worked and bowled during the Wheel Tournament. I didn't work that much...it was weird not having my dad there! But Stony and Daryl put a team together at the last minute and so we got to bowl. I bowled better than I ever have during the tournament, but my team didn't do very good at all. It was weird. They are all great bowlers and the first game, only one of the guys beat me and it was only by 1 pin. What the heck? Whatever. I love the Wheel Tournament and we had fun anyway.
--We have tree roots growing in our main drain from the house to the street. We knew this. We had a very expensive plumber come out a few months ago and he is the one who found them. He told us he thought it would be about $2000 to have the pipe cleaned or about $7000 to have it replaced. We asked him how long he thought we had before either one of those things had to happen...of course he couldn't give us a definite answer (because of liability issues and such) but I pushed him pretty good and found out we could wait a few months to a year. So Stony and I decided we would start saving as much money as we could and then start praying about who to call to do this and who could possibly do it for a more reasonable price.
Well, this weekend, our drain backed up again (it is such a horrible gross mess when it happens). We knew we needed to at least have it cleaned. I fretted and worried all day on Sunday about how we were going to pay for it, who would do it, what was the best option, and on and on. Stony told me to just stop worrying, there wasn't anything we could do about it then, we would wait until Monday and make some decisions.
So we waited til Monday and literally overnight, we got some answers. We found a company that would come and clean it out for $175 and they could be there that afternoon. Praise God! They ended up working a little over 2 hours and charging us a little more--but it wasn't $2000 so we were still happy. They told us our drain is a mess, but that we can get away with having it cleaned once a year for a while. Plus, they guarantee their work for 3 months. Thank you God!
Deacon was completely entranced with the snake machine. Even after we brought him inside, he leaned over the back of the couch and watched them through the window.
--We love to take the kids swimming. The Chilson Rec. Center in Loveland just redid their whole facility and it is awesome!! The kids area is huge! They have a lazy river with fountains, a branch of the river with bubbles that come up from the ground and a whirlpool. They have an area just for water basketball. They have a baby area that goes from basically no water to mid calf on an adult. There are water squirters, flower waterfalls, buckets that fill and dump and a baby slide. Then they also put in a big kid slide, an indoor hot tub and redid the steam room. It..is...fantastic.
Well, Kizzy can swim...not well but well enough to go in the lazy river by herself. I worry some, but we have been there a dozen times or so and she has always been fine. Well, we went last night and Jenny took the kids first while Stony and I were in the steam room. Then Jenny and I switched.
I was standing in the kiddie area with Deacon and Kizzy was in the river. After a few times around, she came over and played with us and then decided to go back. When she walked in, she didn't go in the river. She went into the basketball area. There were lots of big kids and the water doesn't push you in a path. I thought I should go over there....but I didn't. I didn't realize that it got really deep really fast. All of a sudden I hear this tiny, "Help. Please help me." I knew right away that it was Kizzy, but it was so surreal. I couldn't pick Deacon up and run over there fast enough. And before I could even think to do it, because everything was in slow motion, the lifeguard took off his floating thing and tossed it to her to grab onto and then he jumped over the wall and into the pool and picked her up and swam her to the side. He got out of the pool with her in his arms and set her on the ground.
She was embarrassed. So was I. He probably felt heroic, but I felt stupid for not being right there that she would even need to be saved. She didn't come toward me. She went directly away from me. I picked Deacon up and went to her. She was sitting in the hot tub.
"Brit, I have to talk to you."
"I know. I have to talk to you too."
"The lifeguard had to save me."
"I know. I saw that. I'm sorry I couldn't get there for you. I didn't know it was that deep."
"I didn't know either. He probably saves a lot of people."
"Actually, he probably doesn't. You are a lucky one with a story. You're not going to go into that part of the pool again right?"
"No."
"I'm glad you are okay. You're not scared to go back in the water are you.""No. I'll get back in the water, but just not that part. I love you, Brit."
"I love you too, Kiz."She seemed fine the rest of the night. But I was extremely nervous to let her out of my arm's reach.
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