Oh the adventures you will go on...

It has been a crazy few days here in the life of the Waglers...I will fill you in! 

Wednesday morning Finnean and I noticed some water on the kitchen floor.  I went over to check where it was coming from (as it is not unlikely that something spilled!) and couldn't find a source.  Then I stepped closer to our washer (which is on our main living floor) and my foot squished into a whole lot more water.  I start to panic and open the laundry room doors, water everywhere.  Go into the bathroom, water everywhere.  I call Michael freaking out about there being water EVERYWHERE!  He didn't believe me as he has just talked to me about 15 minutes before and there was no mention of water being EVERYWHERE!!!  I went into our bedroom, more water.  It sounded like it was gushing through our return air intake.  Went downstairs, light fixture filling up with water and dripping on the carpet.  Boys bathroom, water.  Boys door jam, dripping water.  It was everywhere.  I could tell that the washer was full of water but could it really make EVERYTHING wet??

Yes, we found out indeed a washer can ruin a great deal of stuff in your house.  We first thought, we will just borrow a wet vac and get some fans, it will be fine.  Nope.  That is not the case.  Michael called ServPro (they have been amazing!) and they came out to check it out for us.  The last thing we need is to have mold in our house if we tried to just do it ourselves.  So Brian took out his little Ghostbusters looking meter and showed us that there is water everywhere.  The flooring, the ceilings of the lower level, the garage, the boys' room.  Sub-floor, kitchen cabinets, carpets, linoleum....all possibly will have to be replaced.  Okay-great.  So our house is going to be under construction.  Nope.  He tells me we will have to move out for 3-5 weeks to dry it out, demo it and then rebuild what needs to be.  WHAT!?!  So we spent the next 6 hours packing everything we thought we might need for two little boys and ourselves for our extended...vacation!!! 

Thankfully we have amazing friends and family.  Stephanie brought us supper, Keith and Jessica (Miss Kendall's mom and dad)  took the boys and Kelcee came to help pack.  The Matt and Kelcee put us up for the night (and cooked us an AMAZING breakfast the next morning) and then we headed to Bloomfield on Thursday.   Grandma and Poppa so graciously opened up their house to our craziness.  Michael has spent much of the last few days on the phone with the insurance people, the contractor, housing people, ServPro.  He has been amazing at coordinating everything not to mention all the times he has moved our stuff around. 

The good news is that we are officially in our "new home."  The housing people found us a long-stay suite at a hotel.  It has two bedrooms.  Finnean got to pick out his room last night and put all of his toys in here.  He thought that was pretty cool.  He finally went to sleep last night about 1015 after he continuously said, "I am not going to sleep!"  We have a little living area with a kitchen table and a little kitchen.  It has miniature appliances, they are kind of cute!  Thankfully the kitchen has some basic dishes.  There is also a bathroom.  One of the perks...complimentary breakfast!  We are also on the first floor, close to an exit for the little Jerry dog.  If anyone wants a mini-schnauzer for the next 3-5 weeks...call me!  I will get some pictures posted soon of our "new house."  We are trying to get Finnean to name it so he knows that it is not our real house but a safe place that we will be staying at for the next few weeks.  He keeps saying..."this is our new house??"  He is quite confused but also has been saying that he "doesn't want to go back to Ankeny."  He definitely knows there was water in our house and when he left it was in quite disarray.  I just want it to be put back together before he goes back there.  Hopefully...soon!

Michael meets with the contractor tomorrow to find out what they will be doing and how long it will really take.  We are hopeful but trying not to get our hopes up by any means.  We will keep you posted of our adventures.