Fire

About 12:30 am Ty and I were awake in bed.  We heard yelling at the neighbors house.  That was not an unusual occurrence.  It got pretty loud and there was a lot of commotion, then a loud BOOM (which we later learner was 2 oxygen tanks exploding).  Ty got out of bed and went to our window that faces their house.  He couldn't see anything (now we know because of all the smoke) so he went to our other window and stuck his head out. 

"Their house is on fire!"

I leapt out of bed and pulled up the shades.  Huge flames were bellowing out of their window.  I dialed 911 while grabbing hazel out of her room.  Ty woke the other girls and ran them downstairs.  As we were headed down the stairs, someone started pounding on our door.  It was our neighbor Brett.  I handed him Hazel and he ran her over to his house.  We got the girls coats on and followed behind.

I took this photo as we ran out before the fire department arrived  (Man, those flames are close to our house!!).  It's was pretty heart breaking.  You can see my neighbor and his dog in the bottom right with his head hanging.  

Thank goodness for friends across the street.  We sat glued to the window watching what was going on.

McKinlay was scared.  Eliza was hyper.

Brett put a movie on for the girls in the basement.  Thanks you Fitzners!  I'm so grateful we had a place the girls could be warm and safe.  Being able to hang out and watch movies in their "awesome basement" made it more exciting than scary.

We waited a few hours til it looked like they got all the flames out.  The firemen gave us the all clear to go back in our house.   This was the view from our window when we got home.  

This was our view the next morning.  So so sad.

Thankfully no one was hurt and there was no damage done to our house.  The neighbors house needs to be gutted, but miraculously she just got home owners insurance 8 days ago!!

I was worried Mckinlay would be traumatized.  She is actually just fine.  Her biggest takeaway is how sad it is that our neighbors lost everything.  She has such a soft heart.  I'm so proud of the little girl he is turning out to be.

Sew magical! Sew cute!

 The much anticipated Lalaloopsy birthday party finally arrived.  

It was so fun to plan and the girls had a ball.

By far my favorite part of the party:

 

I love these cute little BFFs.   

My 6 year old.

 She woke up this morning looking 6.  I can't believe how old she's getting.

As is becoming tradition, she requested a birthday Poptart.

 Eliza, Hazel and I checker her out of school for lunch.

She choose chicken nuggets and frozen yogurt -- with two cherries, of course.

 Then we got to bring in cupcakes to share with her class.  She wanted vanilla with chocolate frosting, then at the last minute changed to red velvet ("because everyone in my class LOVES red velvet.")

Ms. Tyrrell tried to give her birthday spankings, but Mckinlay was too scared/embarrassed.

Later that night we had Mac & Cheese (at her request) 

and she got the Lalaloopsy house she has been drooling over. 

Happy Birthday sweet, sweet girl!

Good bye 2012!

Happy New Year!