Our crazy day

Yesterday was an exciting day for our family. First off, Dave won our ward chili cook off last night! Yea for Dave. He even got a cool little trophy. But the fact that we had no gas to power our stove until 6pm makes it even cooler.

On my way home from picking up Bethy from preschool yesterday, I had to pull over to let a blaring firetruck and police car go by, only to find out they had ended up on my street. They had hit a gas line and filled our homes with natural gas, and I didn't have my purse with me so we went and hung out at the park. Beth and Mayz were hungry and luckily we had some emergency packs in the back that I could let them snack from.

They ended up blocking us out for 5 hours. Dave was nice enough to bring me his debit card so we could get lunch and do some errands. Abby and Lyss did their homework in our car, and they finally let us back in at 4pm. They'd gotten into our house and every door and window was wide open. Dave was mostly frustrated we had no way to make his chili recipe.

Well, he wasn't going to give up, so he showed up in the backyard with the scout's campstove and started cooking up his bacon, sausage, hamburger and onions. Our neighbors wondered what he was doing! By six pm they let us turn our stove on, so I got all the rest of the ingredients simmering in the kitchen, and even though we had to show up 1/2 hour late to the party, he was pot #14 and he won. It was a happy ending to our crazy day. :)