Welcome Home

We were welcomed home from China with a nice surprise... Our sewer backed up and flooded the basement.  Awesome.
It's a $1,000 deductible we pay to our insurance who will pay for the basement repairs.  Insurance doesn't cover the sewer line 7 feet deep in our front yard, which runs $3,500 to $7,000 to fix.

I thought for sure we'd just bought ourselves a new sewer line for Christmas and our next 2 birthdays!!

Fortunately, Todd's mad skills prompted him to just fix it himself, with a little help from a professional.

It ended up costing maybe $500, and it looks like we'll be able to do some work on the basement to "take care of" the $1,000 deductible.  Yesss!!!

Here's our used-to-be-beautifully-completed laundry room.  (Toilet is from bathroom, not a permanent fixture in the laundry room ha ha.)


And what's left of the bathroom:


Todd learned the ropes on the excavator.


And Nat ended up helping too.


Our new best friend Tom

Thanks everyone for your help!!