Ups and too many downs

Let's start on Tuesday. I get Rylee up and dressed and ready to go get her picture taken with Santa. She's in a rotten mood and is not cooperating. I figure I'll try anyway. So we get to the mall, wait in line, finally get to Santa and what happens? Rylee refuses to get even close to Santa. No pictures. Fine, whatever... We're at the mall though so of course I have to look around. By the time I leave Rylee is VERY ready for a nap. So I change her diaper before I put her in her carseat because I know she'll fall asleep on the way home, but I didn't put her tights back on because I didn't want to fight with her. We're in the car for like 2 minutes and she's asleep. We get home and she's in her cute little Christmas skirt, but I don't want to wake her up to change her clothes, even though she only has her skirt on and nothing over her diaper because I had taken her tights off. Anyway, we were having a Christmas party with our friends that night at our house and I knew that I should have 2-3 hours to clean while Rylee is sleeping so I start to clean. Then, like 30 minutes later I hear Rylee in her room and I think "NO WAY!" So I leave her in there figuring maybe she'll go back to sleep. Then 20-30 more minutes go by and she's still fussing in there, but then she really starts to get mad so I finally give in and go get her. I open her door only to be greeted by the wafting scent of poo. I look in there and she had taken her diaper off and gotten poo on her pretty little Christmas skirt, her shirt, her hands, her hair, her legs, her crib, her sheets and even flung some over the side. I kinda start to gag because my reflex is already sensitive thanks to Baby #2 (which at this time I'm wondering why I wanted another...just kidding). Rylee goes straight into the bathtub while I try to clean up the nasty mess. Well, I get it clean and I get her clean. She's still so tired and needs to sleep but I realize that we're out of milk and she has to have some to go to sleep when she's in a mood like this. So I put her in the car with her hair still a little wet and no socks on and take her to the gas station that's like 2 minutes away. I get her home, get her milk, put her in bed and she finally really goes to sleep. It's like 3:00 already and we're supposed to meet our friends at Dion's Pizza at 5 and then people are coming over at 6:00. I haven't cleaned, gone grocery shopping or prepared the snacks. I get things mostly cleaned up, wake Garrick up (he worked the night before) and told him I was going to the grocery store and to listen for Rylee. I call our friend Rebecca on the way and tell her that we probably won't make it to Dion's and to tell everyone sorry, but we'll see them at the house later. Anyway, I finally get everything done and our friends come over and we have a really fun Christmas party. I love Christmas and I love parties so they're such a great combo. Here's a picture that I stole from Rebecca of us playing White Elephant Gift Exchange (thanks Reba!). The party turned out really great! We had fun hanging out, talking, eating and exchanging fun, random, and inappropriate gifts. Haha, gotta love white elephant right? :) By the time everyone leaves I'm tired and so I figure I'll clean up tomorrow. So Wednesday comes and Aubrey comes over so we can go walking like we do in the morning (most of the time). We end up hanging out for a while and so cleaning gets delayed a little longer. Oh well. It's like 10 or so and Garrick decides that he'll go collect the honey from the bees. Yes, there are bee hives here. So he gets all suited up...how hot is he??? Anyway, he's out in the corner of the yard smoking the bees to get them off the honey. When he comes back he says that he thinks there's a pipe broken back there because there was a lot of water. He goes back to check and says that he think one of the caps was busted and so he needed to turn off the water. He figures that it's not too big of job so he doesn't get to it right away. So like 3:30 rolls around and I'm leaving to go see "Enchanted" with my mom and sister. (Such a cute movie, by the way. I totally suggest going and seeing it). I get home from the movie only to hear that the damage to the pipes was way worse and more extensive than he thought and we still didn't have water and wouldn't until the next day. WHAT??? Having no water is really sucky...I don't think I would have faired well before indoor plumbing. So it's Thursday and I still don't have water so I stink because I haven't had a shower and there's still dirty dishes from the party because I haven't had any water to clean them with. YUCK!! Garrick fixes what he can for now so we can at least have water. Okay, it's hard to explain the pipe situation without showing you a pic first, so here you go.Basically what happened is this whole PVC pipe thingy that controls and distributes water to the whole yard was not deep enough or covered so it froze and that whole thing to the left of Garrick is cracked and a big mess. Garrick just ended up cutting the PVC pipe that brought the water to that whole mess and capping it. We have water, YIPEE, but now that whole little thingy needs to be rebuilt. Hmm...any volunteers??? So anyway, this has been a ridiculously long blog entry, but I just thought all the stuff that happened the last couple days was too funny to not share with you all. So I hope our misfortunes can make you laugh a little! :)