#1- We had something going on every day/night this week! Which was nice for me because it went by quickly and was a lot of fun! (FHE, missionaries, playgroup, yard work, watching 24, and helping friends move across town)
#2- Tuesday evening after we fed the missionaries, Jason and I went for our nightly run! ( I am training for a 5k we have coming up (my 1st one), so Jason is kind enough to run with me even though I'm a snail) After we got home and were ready to take showers, we discovered that we had no water!!! After trying every faucet in the house we decided to go check our line outside.
{of course since we are first time home-owners we have no idea what we are really looking for...except like someone digging up our yard where our pipeline is or something} Thankfully the neighbor was out checking her mail and told us what was going on. *Someone had hit a pipeline for the parish and lost 18 feet of pipe!! Thus the water shortage. It happened as we were feeding the missionaries apparently...less than an hour before our neighbor told us what was going on. Since that time...people dashed to Walmart, Winn Dixie, etc. and bought all the bottled water and jug water in Laplace!!! I had to go to Kenner the next day to get water. Thankfully we had some water the next morning for showers, dishes, and laundry, but we were under a boil water notice until last night!!!
#3- Thursday there was a shooting in our parish at a parking lot that was used to commute Valero plant workers back and forth to the job site. This parking lot is next to a HUGE trailer park where the shooters lived. They have 7 suspects arrested in this shooting. There is still speculation and no real reason stated in the news about the cause, but 4 police officers were shot and 3 of them passed away. One of the officers was not even on duty, but was close by so responded to the call.
*It makes me so sad and so confused at how someone/ some people can do things like this. I don't understand in your mind, how you could do something so awful and just know "hey I'm taking a life, I will probably go to jail for this or get the death penalty, but I am ok with it". I don't understand how someone can justify their actions enough to do something so terrible.
#4- On a happier note! This weekend has been so nice and relaxing and we have had a wonderful rain storm! I love it when it rains all day! I know we have needed it too since we are in the middle of a "drought" here in Louisiana hahaha. And, we broke our "piggy- bank" today. We decided to go out to Walmart and buy "The Hunger Games" movie (and Jason hasn't seen it yet), "The Lorax", and Keaton a spiderman comfy chair. He loves it! He has seen that his friend's Ben and Beth have them and he loves them so much we gave in and got him one. :) It looks like this rain won't keep us down! Movie weekend!!!
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