The Saddest week of my life!

Well this was the middle of the week, but I hope everyone else had a good Valentines day, I however thought mine was going okay despite waking up to Orange Jello in my new carpet! I was not a happy camper with two little boys. And then to top all of that off i got the worse phone call of my life up to this point, they called to tell me my papa had passed away:( That just broke my heart. So we have been on the go this week, we had to do visitation on tuesday night and then we had the funeral on wed! The saddest saddest day i have ever had to face. I am hoping that all of my family will be okay and i know that hes in a better place it will just be hard at the holiday times, I am beginning to come to peace with it all, but its hard and i dont want it to be real anymore, I just want to be able to see him again, i have the pics and the memories and i will forver have them, i now have to open up my memories to my kids, they got to see him for a little bit of his life and although he has been sick for most of my life you wouldnt know it by the way he has always teased us kids and picked on us and joked around! he was very fun loving! My grandma is one very STRONG woman and i look up to her for that, i am not sure i could handle all she has in the past! I love you both mama and papa, and to you papa i will one day be your little girl again!

Let the fun begin!

Okay so the first pic here is actually the after!
This is the before but i forgot how it loaded them on here:)

Well it seems the time has come for us to start the clean up! A week went by with alot of people out of power and water and many other things. I know for us personally we were part of the VERY FEW LUCKY ones that only lost power for a few hours. However my hubby's grandma was without from Tuesday to Saturday and she is 83! so we made her come stay with us for a few days and then she went to the brother-in-laws house! We well some of the kids went over to her house on Sunday and started the clean up, I will post some before and after pics at the end or the beginning wherever it decides to put them:) She has some very large trees in her yard and very big at that. The back yard was much worse than the front yard so we are still working on it and probably will be in the weeks to come. The kids finally got to return to school yesterday:) I think they were as happy about it as i was. It was also the 100th day of school for them. So they got do lots of fun activities i think. During the storm our roof started letting water leak in the closet by the front door. Water got all the way into the living room floor and covered about 3/4 of it. But on the good side we are now getting new carpet and we don't have to pay for it! Really excited about that one. We have lived in this same apartment now for 6 years, we moved in in November of 2002 and we don't plan on moving until we can build the house that we want! Hopefully within the next 5 years sometime. Have to, well need to get both of our vehicles paid for first! Okay well that's about all i have for today!