Chistmas Clothes

To my dismay we lost the Christmas dress and vest were lost. I made these for pictures and a festive Sunday. I had just finished them a few days before the fire. They were covered in the filmy soot, but downstairs. The dry cleaners brought them back to me "unsalvagable" still smelling and discolored. Here are the before pictures. Evelyn would have looked wonderful and Egan so debonair.

You can't tell from the pictures but the lining was black and the ribbon was sparkly silver. Under the dress, there was another puffy layer of tulle. The back buttoned with silver buttons.

I had just washed Evelyn's Easter dress, you can see coming out of the basket. Unfortunately this was obviously lost as well. I have not been able to take Pictures or send out Christmas cards. I am apologizing for my negligence. Maybe we'll send out new year cards. =)

Hero Daddy

Aaron was burned a bit from grabbing Evelyn off the top bunk, this is the day after.. His hair was singed everywhere, he lost half of his left eyebrow, his face was burned like a sunburn, his upper lip, tip of his nose and the top of his left ear got burns. A few days before I burned my hand on the stove, and my burn is still healing, but Aaron's are now completely gone. Another blessing.

Fire Damage Pics

Here are a few of the long awaited pictures of our house fire aftermath. Just finally got our computers and Internet back. Enjoy. =)

Our beloved upstairs smoke detector. Thank You.

Smoke and water damage in the upstairs bathroom.
Yuckiness dripping from upstairs.

Debris thrown outside from the kid's bedroom. Evelyn's strawberry shortcake dolly. Below the dolly on the bottom is their tv... crazy melted.

The food storage in the kid's closet survived. Though for safety reasons, they said for us to get rid of everything in the bedroom and bathroom.

The kid's bedroom door, luckily was open at the time of the fire. Their doorknob at the time was broken and when shut was very hard to open.

You can see the outline of where their bed was.

Everything in the house was covered in a filmy residue from the smoke, most everything upstairs was not savable including our washer and dryer (right next to the kid's room). Downstairs, nearly everything is save able, but has to go through a rigorous cleaning process. We are slowly getting our things delivered as they get cleaned. We have been greatly taken care of by our ward family and family in the area, so all our needs are met. We our continually counting our many blessings.