A failed sump pump

Who doesn't love to come home after being gone for five days to find your basement looks like this:

Joe's work files in storage...bottom half ruined. Check.

We didn't get home from dog-sitting my in-laws two dogs while they were out of town until yesterday evening. When we got home, we put Ryder to sleep and unpacked. Just before checking out for the night (yes, that would be like 930pm...ryder had been choosing to wake up really early while staying at grandma and grandpa's house) when Joe was going to quick check his emails and noticed the internet was out. So he ran downstairs to reset the wireless internet thingy when I hear him yell up the stairs, "Carly, come down here". I knew something was wrong in his voice--and I found out what that was when I came down the stairs. BLAH! Luckily we're so handy when it comes to fixing stuff.....bahahaha, just kidding. So D&S plumbing came down. AKA: donn and sharol bartlett plumbing came down and my dad installed a new sump pump---our motor on the old one failed. Awesome. So he put a new one in, and alacazam the water starts draining! Of course, not without a great deal of a mess. Thank goodness we do not have our basement finished or this would have been an even greater disaster!! Also, thank goodness I didn't get called into work last night because we were up till past midnight trying to clean up some stuff and I think I would have blown a fuse if my cell phone started ringing at like 2 or 3am to tell me to come into work.

My dad said it perfectly, "Welcome to being a homeowner". That's why we bought a new house, so we wouldn't have to fix stuff. haha, dang...he is so right....