The Verenski's: My Version of THE FIRE! Long story!

I thought that I would tell ya' all my version of the fire we experienced on 07/11/10.{Butch's 4th Birthday}

Well I will start at the beginning. It was a Sunday so we decided to just have a small Family party and not have a friend party this year. So on Saturday we took Butch out to breakfast, to see toy story 3 and to the Diamond Backs game. We had a blast. We asked Butch what he wanted to eat for dinner for his birthday (whenever it is your birthday you get to pick what we have for dinner) so of course he picks Chicken Nuggets and French fries. So on Sunday 07/11/10 we went to church got home from church and started cleaning the house and getting the food ready. Well I was doing the cupcakes and James was in charge of the deep fryer. He had wanted to do it inside with our other deep fryer but i convinced him to do it outside so our house wouldn't smell for 5 days after. So James was coming in and out getting the oil hot and when he came in I asked him if he wanted to help me decorate the cupcakes. He said sure. So we sat down at the kitchen table frosting them cupcakes and 2 minutes go by and James turns to me and says "oh my gosh it is on fire!!! Call 911!!!!!" So I grab my phone and go and look for the kids. They were in the play room playing and I couldn't find them! So I yelled "Butch the house is on Fire!" the boys came right out of the closet we ran out front and called 911. I wasn't sure what was on fire. Didn't know if it was the house or the shed. Well this whole time all of the neighbors are coming out making sure we are ok and every car that drives by stops and makes sure we are alright which was very nice. Well about 5 min go by and I yelled for James to make sure all was ok he said he was fine and so I thought I better call my mom to get the boys. I called my mom and instatley start crying. I tell my mom what happened and all of a sudden I hear a noise like a jett going off. In my head I am thinking the shed is falling on James and he is dying. I tell my mom I have to go and I go to the fence and yell for james he says he's ok. Meanwhile the neighbor comes over and takes us over to her house, to get us out of the heat. The jett like noise goes off three times and come to find out it is the propane. It scared the crap out of me. The fire fighters finally show up and take care of the fire. Buck, my dad and my mom came too. James says it got so hot he was spraying himself with the hose and he was dry like a minute later. He also said he was spraying the house because it got so hot. I think if he wouldn't have done that we would have lost it. Here are some pictures of the shed and firemen at work.

Even our swing set got ruined!

We had a TON of crap in there. I had just cleaned out everyone's closets and stuffed it all in there. We have lost alot of memories in there.

It got so hot it craked our windows in the back! The 2 cottonwood trees James planted when we moved in got burned. We are hoping they don't die because they are huge.

We had to move the party to my mom's because of the whole thing. We forgot the candles so all we had was the #2. He didn't know though. Butch thought this was the coolest birthday ever because firemen came to his house!