The Geek Life!: September

Our baby boy turned 11 years old!! I remember the drive home from the hospital over the newly opened Frog Bridge, sitting in the back seat clutching onto the car seat for dear life (The entire 6 min ride) with this little baby. Now I have a preteen, HEAVEN HELP ME! Thank goodness he is a good kid and to bad he has to get dumb for a few years. I can't imagine that in just 8 years he will be on his mission. It doesn't seem like it as it is happening but time really does go by fast. Victor had decided that there are two things he would like to be when he grows up....A Master Lego Builder or to work for Apple and possible be the next Steve Jobs.

Wish I could say that with Victors birthday that everything got better but alas I can't....

We got power back the day after his birthday party, after 9 days without it.I took the kids to the fair and we had a pretty good time. But of course the fun was just starting...We then woke to the fridge cooking our food and lame Sears not being able to sent someone out to look at it for a week, which turned into 3 more weeks with out a refrigerator in a house of 6 people, 3 dogs and a cat. Needless to say add the 9 days we had spent without it and the food lost between the two episodes and you have a nightmare of planning and organizing and coordinating.
Then a week before we were to close on the house we got the call that our bank had resent out the appraiser to check for storm damage to discover that the finished basement had flooded and was now ruined and full of mold. They would no longer be willing to lend us money to buy the house unless this was all fixed and of course the selling agent who couldn't really speak for the bank was so helpful with what they were going to do about this that after much thought and prayer and argument and debate it was decided that we were going to walk away and start all over....You can guess that if I wasn't crying before boy was I now.
When the tears ended and the numb set in we started to look all over again (For the 3rd blooming time!). Kel humored me and placed a bid on a house our first time out but we didn't get it. So we headed into October homeless and hopeless....2 B continued......But first some more pics....