toilet in a box

So this is a countinuation of our plumbing problems. The rotto ruder guy came out monday night and stuck the snake through our pipes apparently there was tree roots that had grown into the pipe so he cleared them out. We tested everything before he left and it all seemed to be working fine. then the plumber guy left and Jared had to put the pipes all back together. It wasn't to hard but it did take him a little while. Once the pipes were put back together we did some wash and everything seemed fine, but then when Jared went to go take a shower the toilet started to bubble and then over flowed. So Jared made the plumber guy come back last night to try again. Since Jared diddn't want to have to redo the piping in the wall yet again they decided to go through the toilet but when Jared was movong the toilet out of the way he slipped and dropped the toilet and it broke into peices. This is where the toilet in a box comes in. Jared had to go to Menards to buy a new toilet since I was not about to go all night with no toilet since I need to pee almost every hour. At menards they sell a toilet in a box it comes with everything you need to install atoilet and lucky for us it was on sell. So I now have a nice new clean toilet and hopefully we won't have anymore plumbing problems.

I am a published scientist

The following our 3 papers that I was a co-auther on. The first one was published in Human genetics last month and the other two were published in Human Mutation. I don't think any of you care about reading the paper but if you do I can send you a copy.

Genotype–phenotype correlations for SLC26A4-related deafness
Hela Azaiez • Tao Yang • Sai Prasad •
Jessica L. Sorensen • Carla J. Nishimura •
William J. Kimberling • Richard J. H. Smith

SIX1 Mutation Screening in 247 Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome Families: A Recurrent Missense Mutation Associated With BOR
Amit Kochhar1,2§, Dana J. Orten3§, Jessica L. Sorensen2, Stephanie M. Fischer2, Cor W. R. J. Cremers4, William J. Kimberling3, and Richard J.H. Smith2*

Branchio-oto-renal syndrome: Novel mutations in the EYA1 gene and a review of
the mutational genetics of BOR.
1Dana J. Orten, 2Stephanie M. Fischer, 2Jessica L. Sorensen, 1Uppala Radhakrishna,
3Cor W. R. J. Cremers, 3Henri A. M. Marres, 4Guy Van Camp 5Katherine O. Welch,
2Richard J.H. Smith, and 1William J. Kimberling

Poor Tito!

I was feeling really faint and weak today so I came home early from work and took a nap. I wasn't really in the mood to play with Tito despite his pathetic cry to get my attention so he finally left the bedroom and found his own fun witch included nocking down a thing of assorted donuts opening up the container and eating the only chocolate donut in there. Well last time tito got a hold of chocolate he was crazy hyper and the vet told Jared to give him hydrogen peroxide to make him throw up or his heart could give out and he could start having seizers or go into a coma. So not wanting anything bad to happen we forced him to drink the hydrogen peroxide which he did not enjoy and then took him outside so he could throw up. It took about 5-10 min but he eventually throw up but then he couldn't stop throwing up. I think he threw up at least 6 or 7 times out side and then he threw up 3 more times after we came back inside. It looked like the chocolate donut wasn't the only thing he had found to eat. I think Tito is a little mad at us for making him sick but he will forgive us in the morning now he is curled up in my blanket hiding his head asleep. Poor Tito I hope he feels better, I know I don't like to throw up so I am sure it isn't any fun for dogs either.

home improvements

Jared been doing some home improvements to our house which includes a need wood floor which is my Christmas, valentines and birthday present all in one. It looks great and is much better that the dirty looking linoleum and the nasty carpet. We also painted the babies room and started to get that all ready. Just as Jared was finishing all these home improvement projects our plumbing decided to act up. I don't know what happened but things are not draining. When we take a shower the shower doesn't drain very fast and then the toilet starts to bubble like the shower is draining into the toilet. Yesterday I tried to do a load of wash and our bathtub and toilet filled up with soapy water from the washer. Jared bought some tools to try and fix it himself but they didn't work so after spending $40 and a lot of time we now have to pay $100 to have a professional come and look at it tomorrow. Oh the joys of owning your own home!

I am brown

You're brown, a credible, stable color that's reminiscent of fine wood, rich leather, and wistful melancholy. Most likely, you're a logical, practical person ruled more by your head than your heart. With your inquisitive mind and insatiable curiosity, you're probably a great problem solver. And you always gather all of the facts before coming to a timely, informed decision. Easily intrigued, you're constantly finding new ways to challenge your mind, whether it's by reading the newspaper, playing a trivia game, or composing a piece of music. Brown is an impartial, neutral color, which means you tend to see the difference between fact and opinion easily and are open to many points of view. Trustworthy and steady, you really are a brown at heart.

I am still alive

I was waiting to post until I got my pictures of my camera, but that has not seemed to happen yet so I will just post pictures later, until then enjoy the story of our lovily adventure.

An even funner flight home!

SO we thought we had trouble getting to Utah, but that was nothing. In Vegas our flight was delayed 2 hours only to be cancelled after 3 hours. Luckily we have family in Vegas to stay with so we spent the night at Jared's aunts and went back to the airport the next day. Our flight the next day left right on time like it was suppose to, but then we couldn't land in Cedar Rapids because of the fog so they took us to Lincoln, Ne to get more fuel and try again. So after sitting on the plane while they put more gas in it we took off and tried to land in Cedar rapids after circling for about 40 mins with no help from the fog they decided they would take us to peoria, IL instead. We flew straight into a thunderstorm which was actually pretty cool looking and we landed just fine. They let us off the plane abd told us they were going to bus us home. The bad side to this is that the bus was coming from Cedar Rapids and wouldn't be to Peoria to pick us up for 4 hours and because of a Tornado Warning they weren't going to take our bags off the plane yet. So after being on the plane for 6 hours we were suppose to wait 4 more hours just to take a bus to Cedar rapids. So Jared ran to the car rental place only to find a huge line so he just asked if there was anyone that wanted to share a car. So we drove the 2.5 hours from Peoria in a rental car with 2 people that we had never met but the were both very nice without our luggage. We were told that we could pick up our luggage the next day in Cedar Rapids. What they did not tell us was that no one from allegiant would be there to give us our luggage until the afternoon, so I not knowing this dropped Jared off at school the next morning and headed up to Cedar Rapids. After being told by a security guy that Allegiant was sending some one over I waited 45 min only to be told that no one was there until that afternoon so I headed back to Iowa City to go to work in cloths that didn't really fit me since all my maternity cloths were in my luggage. We finally home and eventually got our luggage. Jared said that next christmas if anyone wants to see us they will have to come to Iowa. Al;though Tito was extremely good and never made a sound on the plane I would not want to go through that with a dog and a baby.

Christmas

Despite our troubles getting to Utah we had a very fun and relaxing two weeks with our families. We spent Christmas at my moms and New Years with Jared's Mom. There was definantly more presents for Tito and the baby under the tree than there was for Jared and I and the presents that did have our names on them were really for the baby. Between Christmas and the baby Shower that my lovily mother and friends Jennise and Christy threw me the baby pretty much filled up her own suitcase on the way home. She got lots of cloths and she better really be a she or we are in trouble. Me and Jared sisn't come out completely empty handed. We had just asked everyone to give us money so that we could buy a digital video camera to take video of our baby when she comes so although we didn't have many presents to open we did get enough money for our camera and then some.
Tito was so good on the trip. He didn't even go potty in Grandma's house he always told me when he had to go out, now onl if he could do that at home.

Fun Flight to Utah

We had a great christmas break minus the getting to and from Utah. We got to the cedar rapids airport friday December 21 just to find out that our flight was cancelled (this was after checking with the airline before we left for the airport and they said everything was on time, which wasn't true since I plane hadn't even left vegas yet) We were told to return the next day at 2, so not that big of deal we just went home and then went back the next day. The next day our plane came in from Vegas when it was suppose to, but so did an allegiant plane from Orlando and there was only one crew to unload the planes and reload them again. Of course they did the other plane first and by the time they got to our plane it was pretty much a blizard out side. By this time we had been in the airport fort 5 hours and Tito had to go potty (did I mention we took our dog with us) so we had to ask an airport person to take him outside to go to the bathroom. After waiting hours and switching gates 3 or 4 times we were finally on our way to Las vegas. The flight was uneventful but by the time we got to vegas got our bags and were on our way to St. George (Thanks Melissa and Brant for picking us up) we hit the vegas bowl traffic and because of an accident were stuck in non moving traffic near mesquite. My brother-in-law having to pregnant ladies that had to go to the bathroom in the car drove over the median on the freeway to turn around and get off at the next exit to find a bathroom and take the frontage road home. Well we finally made it to my mother-in-laws house only about 28 hours later than we were suppose to.