My first Mexico Waterfall

Ok I wrote this post over a week ago and thought I posted it. Well I didnt so here it is. Ill try to read through it really fast here and see if I need to make some revisions.
So last week I was privileged enough to get to see my first waterfall and guiser (sp?) all in one day. This experience was not quite as exciting or fun as I had hoped it would be. Mainly because it wasn't in the mountains instead the waterfall was going down my stairs and the guiser was on my back patio.
After a night of wonderful rain fall I woke up to a flooded house. Each morning after rain we would have random puddles in the house and the trail from where it came had dried up. This morning when Issac was giving my my good by kiss he said, well we got enough rain to see where the water is coming from. Its coming from the door to the upstairs patio. Oh I thought half asleep well at least now we know, Ill wipe up the puddles later and find something to clog the door.
Little did Issac know from walking through the hall that all the water from the patio door had actually diverted itself into the girls room, with a small trickle going down the stairs and also filling the play room. When Joslin woke up I went plowing into at least a full inch of water in their room. I had no idea how bad it was at first but when I pulled their full comforter off their bed and threw it under my feet I knew I was in for it. The blanket just filled with water and sank to the bottom and I was still standing in a lot of water. As I'm walking down the stairs holding Joslin I notice a medium size trickle of water that is flowing down the stairs. Wow I think that must be alot of water in their room. Once downstairs I see that the trickle is not going out the front door but into the play room. I take a quick peak and realize that there is about a 4-5 foot area that has also almost an inch of water. My kitchen was also flooded but not as bad and was from the back door.
Once I fed and dressed the girls I shut them in my room with some toys. This may sound a bit cruel but for one my room is always off limits for play time so they thought they were getting a real treat. And two it was just dangerous to have them running around anywhere else. My heart sank as I went into the girls room and remembered that Alanas book shelf had broke a few days before and all her hardbound books were on the floor close to the window. At this point I wasn't sure how that much water got in so I was a little anxious. For about 2inches around her books the room was dry, the rest was soaked. That was a huge sigh of relief. Thankfully we don't keep a lot of toys in their room so the floor was pretty clean, she did have a cloth basket full of dress up cloths that got soaked and I threw it in the wash. After up turning the couch in her room so it could begin to drain I got the squidgy. I figured since the water was naturally going down the stairs thats where I would put it so here came my first waterfall. It took me a little over an hour to get all the water out of her room. Every time I would get the floor dry a new puddle would form. Finally I realized it was still coming in through the door even though the rain had stopped. Upon investigation I see that the small patio area has about 3-4 inches of water that was being relieved into the house. At first I saw no drain but when I did find it it was clear but had no water draining. So I went out to the back porch to find the outlet. This is so odd the pipe obviously was originally set under the ground of the back patio to go somewhere out side of the house.But I assume it got clogged past repair and since it was now under a concrete patio they just smashed a whole in the plaster to show part of the pipe and put a small whole about the size of a squished quarter. This little whole appeared to have a a rock in it. So I get a stick and poke it out, then a little trickle of water starts but there is what appears to be a huge hairball there. Oh yes so gross, but I continue to poke and silly me Im squatting right in front of it. I then get sprayed head to toe with gross who knows whats in it water. But it was actually really funny so even standing there alone I had to laugh at myself. I didn't have to clear the whole at this point the water did it for me. Here is a picture of that lovely spray of water. When Issac came home he made the whole into a baseball size and we have had no problems since. Well you know the little puddles that are inevitable in houses in Mexico but thank God no more flooding.

My hodgpodg week.

This week has been quite out of the ordinary for us. First off on Tuesday we headed to Guadalajara to drop of the paperwork they requested the last time we were there. My Suegra stayed the night Monday night so she could go with us. The girls were so excited she was here that they both stayed up past their bedtimes. Mi Suegra is a wonderful Christian lady and is so good with my girls. As with any mother in law we have our differences and by the end of our time together I'm usually on edge (a little). Even though both Christian we grew up in totally different worlds and now have completely opposite perspectives. I am always looking for the short cut and she just takes the long way around without even thinking about it. This made it quite interesting when I was holding the baby and she the umbrella. Seriously I'm sure we were a riot to see. Anyway with her help with the girls, immigration went quite smooth. Her, the girls and I waited inside the office for Issac to go pay our fee and make copies of all our papers. (sometimes it must suck being the dad. lol) There was almost no one there so once I got a number we were second in line. The lady asked for all our papers one by one and then stamped them all and gave us our originals back. She didn't ask for the itinerary for my flight so we brought it up to her and she agreed we needed it. This is one of those times you know its a good idea to read your papers yourself to know what you need to turn in. So that is it for now on immigration we are to go back after February 9th and hopefully pick up my book.
Also on Monday something truly wonderful happened. Issac and I were reminded that when God brings friends together few things can break that fellowship. I'm sure I'v mentioned this before but Issac and I are very social. We love to be surrounded by friends and family. When we both lived in the states everyone knew if there was nothing else to do our house was open to them. We also would have friends over for the holidays when we were going to be in town, a lot of our friends at the time didn't have family close and so we would be each others families. With our church, fellowship meant more than saying hi and asking how people were doing on Sundays. We were there for each other when we could be. Everyone tried to help the others with house or yard projects, or just plain old meeting up and hanging out outside of church. We would even get together to pray together is someone was having a hard time. To be honest after we had lived here long enough to realize we were probably not going to find this here we were quite aggravated at God. Why would he give us such a great community and then take it away not to give it back again. We have I think over the last year or so realized that he is trying to show us that there are many types of fellowship and just because we don't live in the same town as someone doesn't mean he has taken them away. A couple who are friends of ours from that church wrote to my husband telling him they want to help us out in their own way. I don't want to go into the details of how they are going to help us because to be honest that's not what this is about. After receiving the e-mail and us discussing it and what I spoke of above we were both in tears. We are in need of assistance and would never have asked for it, but God always knows and will provide when needed. Also although we have been keeping up with them from time to time on facebook I had no idea they read my blog. It is nice to know that friends haven't forgotten you and not only that but that they still care. We pray for and are seeking spiritual fellowship here in Mexico. I have managed to get some through my skype bible studies but as for my husband I am it. We do get to hang out with a couple of our good friends on a weekly basis which is absolutely wonderful but usually this is more to catch up and hang out and nothing spiritual. So in short after that long paragraph we are so thankful to God for showing us more and more what love is and how great it feels.
The only other reason this week has been off is because of the rain. We are on day 5 today of constant rain. It was so nice the day before the rain started that people were wearing shorts and now its getting colder each day. My laundry is like a mountain in my room and apparently its not suppose to let up until after Friday. This is pretty odd for this time of year here in Mexico. Last year it might have rained once or twice all winter. That is why they call it the dry season. Poor Alana is so ready to go out and play. During the summer I let her play in the rain so shes a little confused at why we have stayed inside the whole time. I try to tell her its to cold and she tells me she can put on her boots and rain coat. lol Im thinking this should be good for the farmers or at least I hope so. I hear the coffee production will be low this year because it actually reached freezing in some areas of Mexico in mid January. But around here we survive on the farmers who grow corn and tequila both of which I would think wouldn't be bothered by the freeze and will be helped by all this rain.
Today is the day we go find out when our appointment with the surgeon will be, so hopefully I will know in a few days when we will be getting it done. I'm so ready for it, yesterday we couldn't even figure out what made it hurt so bad. I ended up on the couch while Issac had to cook dinner which we decided would be better off if I didn't eat it. I guess one good side is I have already lost all my baby weight thanks to nights like last night where I only eat carrots for dinner. But for real Id rather be fat. lol Well all thanks for reading and sorry this post went here there and everywhere but I figured I might as well put it all in one post since it all happened within a few days.
Rain Rain go away come again another day...
Rain Rain go away, We want to go out and play. (and do laundry)