Swimming... in our basement

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In March, we finally bought Bailey a new swim suit, and the goggles that she apparently couldn't live without. Bailey and Avery were so excited they ran around in their swimsuits for a few days. I'm glad that we are members of the YMCA and can go swimming all the time, even where there is snow on the ground.

A few days later, Bailey could have used her new swimsuit to swim in our basement. Due to the home repair projects we were working on, we had unplugged the sump pump. We should have known better. One warm day and a rainy night later I woke up to six inches of water in our ENTIRE basement. It was awesome. I called Mike at work, and of course he didn't know what to do, and couldn't leave to help out. Oh the joys of residency.

I spend the entire day pumping water out with a pump I bought at home depot, and bucketing water out. Despite the thousands of gallons an hour the pump pumped, it wasn't enough. If I stopped bucketing, the water would actually get higher! It was so frustrating.

Luckily that night, we borrowed a pool pump from a member of our church. We dried the sump pump off and had both those running. Within an hour we had gotten most of the water out of our basement.  

Oh the joys of home ownership...