Fun Time in Beerleyland

Sorry that I don't have any pictures for this post, we accidentally forgot the camera on our adventures this week. And I say adventures because we had two separate ones. Jay headed out to San Diego for a youth minister's conference, while Andrew and I stayed in Dallas with Nana. Jay had a wonderful time. He said that it was very smokey from all of the fires. I'm glad he got out before it got too bad in San Diego. Andrew and I also had a wonderful time with Nana, but Andrew got sick while we were there. He was running fever and pretty whiney the whole time. Jay flew back Monday night, then we went with Nana yesterday to go get Aunt Mindi from work and then headed home. We got here at about 5:30 and it was pretty cold in our house, so we turned on the heater and then these little wall heaters in the bathrooms because they don't have vents. Well, the carbon monoxide monitor went off so thus begun our crazy evening. Andrew was already asleep, so we just opened all of the windows and doors and let the house air out. I then called the gas company and they said they would send someone out shortly. An hour and a half later (10:15 p.m.!) the guy showed up.....we were freezing by this time. He said that those wall heaters were putting off an insane amount of carbon monoxide and he wanted to shut our gas off altogether. He checked all of the other gas-run things in the house and since the wall heaters were the only things putting off the CO he had mercy on us and made us sign our life away saying that we wouldn't use the heaters anymore. Like he had to convince us! Today the church sent out a plumber today to cap the things off so they can never be used again. I guess we'll just have to get some electric heaters because let me tell you it's almost unbearable to go in there and it's only into the 40's at night right now! But I am thankful that we had a CO alarm in the house. If you don't have one and you have anything run on natural gas....GET ONE!
On a quick side note, I decided to take Andrew to the dr. today since he cough had worsened. It turns out he has a double ear infection!! No wonder he was so whiney at Nana's!