Pictures of my problem...

This is my piece of crap house. Please acknowlegde the HUGE size of it. I know. It's really ugly. But now that it is falling apart even more, we are completely redoing the outside in a couple of weeks.

(The house is not sinking.... I don't know how to take pictures)

This is the problem, see the crushed metal. That is not a good thing...

Nice close up of the top of the poarch falling down.

This is the support thing that Brian made.

We have a problem.... another one

This morning around 4:30 am, we woke up to our house shaking violently. We had an Earthquake! A 5.2 Earthquake! With all of the shaking and twisting that the house was doing, I thought that the house was going to fall in, which really is a possibility. As soon as it finished, Brian and I got up to check the house for cracks or any other type of damage, didn't see anything so we went back to bed.

After Brian was ready for work, we went outside to check for damage, we checked the back, the chimney (we were really worried about that) and ventured to the front of the house.... OH MY GOSH. The middle column that is holding up the balcony on our front porch is twisted, crushed and leaning towards my big bay windows. The balcony is sagging about 6 inches lower than what it should. The front of my house is falling off.

Now this is a really really BIG issue. If it does fall, three stories is going to come down and I won't have a house! Well, Brian called State Farm and put our claim in. I really hope that we don't have any issues with the claim. This needs to get fixed immediately! Brian is going to get some wood so he can brace the column, mainly so the house doesn't fall and kill us while we are sleeping.

I really think that this house hates us and wants to be destroyed. From floods to the leaks and now a crumbling support column, I think that it has made it's point...

Trip to the Zoo!!

Yesterday Reese had a Field Trip to the Mesker Park Zoo. I was actually able to find a babysitter for the other girls so I could with her. When we got there, she could not stop running. She was so excited about seeing all of the animals we had to run to every exhibit! The only downside of the Zoo was that her eyes were itchy. But other than that it was great!

Since Evansville is the nastiest place in the world for allergies, Reese has had a really bad case of Hay Fever for the past 2 weeks. I have been pumping her up with Claritan and it really hasn't made any big improvements. I just switched her to Zyrtec last night, hopefully it will work.