Scary Week

I have no fun pictures to include in this blog post because life have just been too crazy right now. We are all doing pretty well adjusting to our hectic lives during the school year. Macalan and Sutton are having lots of fun playing with their daycare friends. Barb our daycare lady informed me that Sutton has started army crawling to where ever the big boys are playing! He is really getting around lately! Macalan had lots of fun at the Gustavus football game last weekend with his friend Carson. They got to run around on the football field after the game and pretend they were the big football players. Gustavus played Wartburg and that was the same day as the Iowa/Iowa State game. We felt kind of funny walking in all decked out in our Iowa State gear. We heard a few "Go Hawkeyes" and a couple of "Go Cyclones" as we walked around. Too bad they had to lose so horribly!

We had a pretty bad scare this week at our house. On Thursday a repair man had come out to fix our oven. He did a few things and left a note for Kyle that as soon as he could he should switch out the cord on the oven. Kyle was home alone with the boys that night because I had class. Thankfully he decided to do what the note said and he started changing out the cords. When he bent down to switch them he could smell and feel gas blowing in his face. He ran downstairs to shut off the gas and called the gas company. They said to call a plumber so that's who he called next. Our plumber came right over and was able to fix the problem pretty quickly. He determined that somehow the pipe had been snapped in half. We are wondering if when the repair man pulled it and then slid back in its spot if that's when it happened. I got home as soon as I could and according to the plumber we were very lucky. He said if we had tried starting the oven or lighting the burners there would have been an explosion. I couldn't help but get teared up on my way home thinking about this. I could have lost my whole family. Someone (probably Kyle's dad) was watching over us that night. The next day Kyle made a phone call to the repair company and they are waving the fee. I know none of this was done on purpose, but it still makes me angry!

Hopefully this next week will be a little more calm for us. We are headed to Ames on Friday for another ISU game! Hopefully they can pull out a win, especially since it will be Sutton's first tailgate! I will do my best to post some pictures of all the festivities!

So I have to include this! I am sitting here typing and Macalan is playing with his cars on the table by me. He just crashed them into each other and said, "Knock, Knock!" "Who's there?" "Calan!" and then he started having a conversation between his two cars! It was pretty cute. He has been really into knock knock jokes lately. The punch line for every single one when you get to the "Who's there?" part is "Calan Jophus!" He thinks it's hilarious and it's even cuter because he can't say Joseph, which is his middle name. Kids know how to make you smile even when things aren't the greatest!