What a week!

Wow, this has been an exciting week! Tuesday morning I went to get a shirt from the laundry room and discovered the water heater had sprung a leak overnight, and was spraying water everywhere. We were leaving that night, so it had to be fixed immediately. I turned off the water (I thought), called the plumber and asked them to bring a water heater and install it. He came pretty quickly, turned off the water to the house, and replace the water heater. When he turned the water back on, our kitchen faucet blew up! I spent the afternoon replacing the faucet. I'm sure glad this happened before we left town!

We came down to Mesa Wednesday morning to watch Emily's kids while Emily and Geoff went to Utah for Geoff's brother's wedding. We had a great time taking care of Jackson, Natalie, and Staci Wednesday through Sunday. What great kids! Staci turned 4on Tuesday, and Jackson turned 9 on Thursday, so there was a lot of partying going on. Jan and I hit the bed hard every night, exhausted. There is clearly a reason why we have children while we are still young.

Saturday night we all went over to Andrea and Tyler's apartment for a taste treat - bacon cheeseburgers with grilled Krispy Kreme donuts for the bun! We had heard of these treats before, but had never eaten one. The secret is in splitting the donuts in half, putting the unglazed side over the grill, then putting the glazed side next to the meat. It wasn't too bad (Jackson said it wasn't any weirder than putting ketchup on graham crackers), but I have never finished a hamburger before with sticky fingers. Thanks, you two!

Tomorrow is Labor Day, and we get to go home. Amazing - you spend a week with your family and you can't wait to "go home." If home isn't where your family is, where is it?