Milestones

We have reached a MAJOR milestone--Monday we start to put things back together again.  It has been a long road, close to 2 months since the fire, but we are finally at the point we have been waiting for.  I am excited to post pictures of progress!

Here is a little walk down memory lane:

This is the side of our house that was struck by lightning.  You can see the hole in the siding where it shot right through our house.  The piece of siding flew down the street into our neighbors yard, two house down.  Mother nature is a powerful lady my friends!

This is what it looks like when someone takes your roof off :)  My husband posted this picture on Facebook with the endearing caption, "Going Topless"...too funny!  This picture REALLY puts things in perspective for me.  I can't recall if I have shared this yet or not, but my husband was outside when the lightning hit.  If you look closely you can see the mark down the tree that is there.  The lightning hit the tree, was drawn in by the electrical field of our house and went horizontally across and through our house.  My husband was standing at the grill letting the dogs out before the storm rolled in.  We are so very lucky...this could have been SO much worse!  The tree is mainly on our neighbors property, but they have graciously agreed to let us take it down.  It will be nice to not have that constant reminder there.

 This is the view from the front.  Sorry neighbors for the Port-o-Potty...not attractive.

This is our sweet little girl who is stronger, smarter and braver than she will ever know.  She is wearing a sweater my Mom had made for me when I was little.  when it came back from the dry cleaners she said she wanted to wear it, so on it went.  This face is what happens when you say, "Pose, honey".  She has been AMAZING through this whole ordeal.  She is completely in tune with what is going on and will tell you that our house is being upgraded, we are living at a vacation home and her room is going to be really nice when we move back in.  She will sometimes out of nowhere say, "I want to go home".  I will ask her if she means the vacation house and she will say, "No, our real home."...then she keeps playing.  She will ask for random toys that we no longer own, but she does not fixate on them, so I think we are doing alright :)

I just had to post...random "just because" gift from my wonderful husband who, even when our stress level is through the roof (no pun intended), always reminds me to stop and smell the roses.

Megan