A little inside view

Here are some pictures I took with my phone of the inside before they started boxing everything up. Sorry the picture quality isn't so good, there is no electricity and I don't have a way to download pictures from my camera onto my parents computer right now. Everything in the house is covered in a layer of black soot and if you touch it you will be covered. It also reeks inside and then you will reek even if you spend just 5 minutes in there. If you look at the ceiling you can see where all the beams are from the smoke pattern.
The hallway is pretty black because they said smoke was just pouring out of the vent in the middle.
Poor family room, everything in there is destroyed because of the smoke-the door into the garage did a good job of containing the flames though! The fish did survive and are now happily swimming at my parents house!
All the food in the kitchen has to be thrown away even if it was unopened and wrapped up.

Friday Fire

It isn't every day that a police officer comes to your work to tell you that your house is on fire, but is what happened to me on Friday morning. I had only been at work for maybe 50 minutes when I got the news that a significant fire had broken out in our garage. When I arrived at the house the fire had been put out and they were able to contain it for the most part in the garage. I was told that Charlie had escaped from the garage and in fear took off running and a firefighter had rescued Chico but they couldn't find the other cat. When Jorge was given the go ahead he did find Coco hiding under my nightstand, safe but scared. The fire investigator is still unsure exactly what caused the fire, but we are forever grateful for the speedy response of the the Salem FD. Unfortunately the house is not livable because of all the smoke damage to the inside of the house and the fact that all the electricity, gas and water were shut off. Our insurance was super speedy and had someone over later that evening boarding up the house and starting the paper work to get everything cleaned and repaired. It looks like we will be hotel living people for 3-4 months which is upsetting especially with a baby arriving in less than 2 months. Jorge and I look pretty snazzy in our Wal-mart sweatpants we bought while we wait for them to wash our clothes, it is amazing how badly the stench of smoke can infiltrate EVERYTHING. We are so happy and thank GOD that the animals all made it out alive, we weren't home and that more damage wasn't done. Things could have been much worse.
This picture ran in the statesman journal, our big boy is famous! We were also on the 11 o'clock news Friday night.
Our house was the highlight of the day, we were going to start charging all the people who slowed down, stared and yes even took pictures!
Some things were recognizable, some were just blobs. Now we get the fun chore of trying to write down everything that was in there for insurance purposes.
Pop and I getting ready to have a look inside the house with our face masks and green gloves!

Tomatoes on Sunday???

Today I got to pick my very first tomato! I have a lot of green tomatoes and one more that is getting close to being ripe. If the weather gets bad before they all turn red then I guess fried green tomatoes will be what we have! I am going to enjoy my very first tomato with some grilled cheese sandwiches! Yummy!!!

Baby and Bump at 31 weeks

It was really fun to be able to have another u/s today and see how much he has grown and see him moving around in there. He waved at us and showed us how well he could do the sucking motion and then he showed us his super long legs which have been spending some time lately up in my ribs! We could even see his hair on the screen, maybe that ol' wives tale about hair and heartburn is true! Profile

Here's lookin at you kid!

Are you ready for some football?? Charlie is!!

At Petco today Charlie refused to leave the store without this football. Jorge tried everything, and Charlie would not move. He planted his paws and made it clear that he would go home with that ball....and he did. So when we got home I put him in his jersey and off he went to the backyard to play some fetch. Fall and football are finally here!