Freezin' Our Buns Off!!!

This was Reese when she was about 2 1/2 months old. And I'm pretty sure this is exactly how she was feeling again just a few days ago.

Our furnace went out Sunday afternoon while we were at church. Thankfully, our handy-man friend Ryan Mattinson was able to come over that night to diagnose the root of the problem. Unfortunately though I had to wait until the next morning to actually do anything about it.

This is what our thermostat read all day Monday, and I honestly don't think it shows any lower than 60 otherwise it would have! I was freezing even with my extra layer or two of fat, so it made me so extra sad to see poor little Reesey shivering away (she really was). She must have inherited some of my used-to-warm-weather-Vegas-blood.

I swear it was warmer outside so we just left the house to run errands for the whole morning. Then in the afternoon we stayed warm by taking warm baths then snuggling upstairs in my bed while watching tv.

This was her outfit after her bath. The bottom layer consisted of a long sleeve onesie, thick cable tights, and socks. Then her outer layer of course was these fleecy pj's and her winter coat.

So my other job on Monday other than trying to keep my daughter and myself warm was to track down a new little part for the furnace, which of course no regular stores seemed to carry. I called a ton of different heating guys and finally found one that didn't want to rush right out and charge me $100 just for the visit. He instead told me a super simple way that would hopefully fix the problem and what I would need for it.

So I tracked down the stuff to fix it (only $3) and later that night, my typically not so handy-man husband came home to see if he could put it back together and get it working. I have to be honest and say that I had maybe 10% confidence in him, and was pretty certain that we were going to have to pay to have a heating guy come out the next day. But oh wifey of little faith was proven wrong...

He did it!

By the way, have I ever mentioned that my daughter has NO FEAR? With people yes, but when it comes to doing anything by herself...no way! I had to chase her down countless times from making her way up the ladder to go "help" her daddy out.

Okay, now for some of you this may be no big deal and may have been something simple. But for the Bjorkmans to not have to pay an arm and a leg to get something fixed..................was cause for CELEBRATION!!!

So we headed out to Sonic to pick up some freezing cold ice-cream that we could now enjoy back in our toasty warm house.

And enjoy we did! And in only one layer of clothing!