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We made it through another week ... Barely The first thing that I recall was on Tuesday night Alison was feeling absolutely awful and we took her in to the emergency room and found out that she had a kidney stone. She was discharged at 1 AM and full of enough pain killers she was fine on Wednesday.  Thursday at 3 am she woke up again and felt enough pain that she needed to be taken back to the hospital. They finally found a medicine that worked on her (either that or the kidney stone passed) so we went home at 1 PM On Saturday we went to see Dracula vs Henry Botter at the OBT. It was super fun. We need to buy tickets for Christmas Carol II, the next play they are putting on Saturday evening we went to the Ward's chili cook-off. The chili was excellent and we had a fun time. We then remembered on the way home from the chili cook-off that Alison and Mike had both been asked to give talks on sunday, and with all of the sickness we totally forgot about it, so we spent the rest of the e

These past few weeks have been fairly difficult. We all ended up sick we discovered bad news about our house and Gideon stepped on a goat head. As you all know we have been out of our house for about 4 months now because we have been having a home addition put on. We recently discovered that the contractors that we hired are involved in government investigations because they seem to be ripping people off and not completing their houses. Once we discovered this we immediately stopped paying them and also told them that they need to finish our house before we pay them anymore. We got a lawyer also.  We discovered that they never got a permit for construction, so everything that they have been doing has been illegal. We are currently giving them one last chance to get a permit and finish the job without us paying them and if they fail to do that we're going to have to find a new construction crew to finish the house. This has been very stressful and annoying to us. Grandpa Mike also g