Cold Days and Frozen Pipes

We have been enjoying the snow that fell on Monday. It is VERY cold here today. With temps not rising above 25 degrees today, we are experiencing wind chill temps close to zero! Unfortunately, these cold temps caused frozen water pipes last night that left us with no water this morning. When Sean went out to check on the problem at 5:00 this morning, he found that the door to our crawl space was wide open. We have had some guys here working on putting up new vinyl on our soffits and fascia around the house and they evidently left the door open yesterday. Maybe they closed it, but didn't close it well and it blew open. Either way, it was wide open which is not good when it gets as cold as it did last night! Sean put a space heater down there to try to warm the area up slowly, but while we were gone on a quick trip to McDonald's to grab some breakfast, the pipe burst! After a few trips to Home Depot, he almost has it fixed! He is such a wonderful handyman! He works so hard to fix anything and everything! My mind always starts racing...thinking how much will this cost us? If we had to call a plumber, I'm sure it would be close to $300! But I think we have spent about $22 at Home Depot and if all goes well, we will be taking warm showers in an hour or so! We love you Sean! You are the best husband, father and plumber we know!

Helen is modeling her new hat that Auntie Mame made for her! Isn't it cute?

Getting ready to sled down the hill!