Mr. Rooter to the Rescue

Sigh.  The plumbing saga continues:  Apparently our plumbing problem wasn't fixed and everything backed up again on Tuesday.  We already had a plumber coming on Thursday to re-plumb our utility room (to fix the many leaking/backing up problems we had with our washer when it rained a lot).  We were hopeful he could also assist with our upstairs plumbing clog.  Unfortunately not only could he not help with the clog, he tied our new washer drain into the clogged line so I was now without an upstairs bathroom and had no washer (with a sort-of potty trained almost 2 year old, that is not a good thing).  On Friday afternoon we FINALLY got the clogged line cleared and we got all of our plumbing problems fixed!  Hurray!  Unfortunately we still had a lot of work to do in our utility room to move our washer and dryer and rearrange the whole room.  Since I had to carry out all of our food storage and everything else we store in there - I decided to do some cleaning, painting, and sprucing up so it looked less like a crumbling jail cell and more like a usable space.  We are almost done with the room - I was able to start doing laundry on Saturday but I still have most of my food storage in my dinning room.  When it's all said and done I'll have more storage space and a cleaner room, not to mention no more water in there - so I guess it's worth it, right?

In other news the kids had a ballet recital in the playroom one night  - it was very entertaining.  We managed to fit dying Easter eggs and an Easter egg hunt in on Saturday in the midst of our utility room re-do and had a nice Easter Sunday. The kids are excitedly looking forward to their spring break this coming week.

Ballet  pictures:

For all those die hard Russell fans there are videos of the ballet dancing on You Tube.  To see Calvin dance with Lilah go here, to see Calvin dance with Anna Elise go here, and to see Celeste high-jack Madeline's dance with Calvin go here.

Easter Morning:

Our family spotlight this week is Mike.  He has been working, a lot.  The good news is that although he is still extremely busy the spring round of Home Shows is over and he won't be working (as much) on the weekends.  When he isn't working - he's working around the house - moving washers and dryers and shelves.  What an exciting life he leads ;).