"It was just an accident!"

Spencer was taking a bath with Jacob, which he rarely does because he's too big. He usually showers. Anyway, Spencer was standing up in the tub washing himself and had his eyes closed. He went to sit down to rinse off and BOOM he sat on the tub faucet and broke it off.......snapped the pipe clean off! (Luckily the water was off!)


I tried not to freak out because Spencer felt really bad, but all I could think of was $$$$$$!!!!! This is our first house and repairs are not something we are very experienced at yet. Dan had to go to work the next morning, so he came up with a quick fix. He took out a couple of the tile around the faucet and out came ANTS (big ones) then he glued on another pipe and put the faucet back on and duct taped a big piece of plastic over it so we could still shower.



Over the next couple of days, we tried to research the quickest and cheapest way to repair it. We came up with the plan to just regrout that one wall and put some tile back on the hole Dan made. So he bought a Dremel and started to drill out the grout in between the tiles. It took pretty much the whole day. That night, we planned on some friends coming over for dinner. The husband, Eric, owns his own construction business. So he basically knew how to do anything and everything to a house. Believe me, I didn't plan this. We had already scheduled the dinner way before the accident happened. While they were here for dinner, Dan showed Eric the project and Eric offered to give us a couple boxes of tile and to help teach Dan how to retile the whole thing! Well, I think it took Dan about a second to say yes!


So Dan did the demo, which we needed A LOT more Raid for! (this "accident" was a blessing in disguise!) Then Eric came over and taught Dan how to put the backer board up,
lay tile, and grout it in 3 days. We were out of a shower for about a week and a half! We had lots of sponge baths........NOT FUN! You don't truly appreciate your shower until you can't use it anymore! But now, it's BEAUTIFUL!! I LOVE IT! THANKS AMYEE AND ERIC!!!

Great job, sweetie!

Now for the floor................