Decorating for Christmas 2007

This year we are living at Taylor's parents for the holidays. Taylor and his brother decorated his parents house the day after Thanksgiving. Cooper and Taylor decided that this year they were going to do red and clear lights outside with toy soldiers. I went to the store to get some goodies for dinner while they were busy working in the yard. Taylor's mom was going to make her yummy wontons for dinner and we were going to put up the tree after the boys were done decorating the outside of the house. While I was at the store I decided to call the boys to see if there was anything special that they wanted from the store. The conversation went kind of like this....

Taylor - "Be careful when you come home. We had a bit of an accident."

Jess - " Oh no! What kind of an accident"

Taylor - "Well when I was putting the metal stakes into the ground to tie the toy soldiers to I might have hit a water main."

At this point the only thing that can go through my head is that the basement that we are currenty living in is completely flooded

Jess - "How much is damaged?"

Taylor - "Oh nothing is damaged. Just be careful coming home because the side walks are all frozen now from the water."

When I got home I found out that the water had been spraying up higher than the house. The only thing any one could think about was who was going to tell Taylor's dad. We all knew he was going to be mad. When Taylor's dad got home from working at the temple that night he walked in the door laughing. Cooper had told him the entire story and he thought it was hilarious! And it really was looking back on it. Here are some pictures of Taylor and Cooper's hard work. They were quite proud of themselves.