I think we have a problem over here!!

That is exactly what David calmly said last night, in his pajamas playing his ds, as smoke is coming out from behind the couch he is sitting on! I had just gotten Tommy out of the bath, and was getting a diaper for him when David let us know that there was smoke coming from behind the couch. I immediately told him to go to Sharon's (our neighbor) and he quickly and obediently left, I quickly put a diaper on Tommy and grabbed jammies for him, my keys and cell phone and went with him outside while calling 911. As I was getting the kids out, Keith pulled the couch away from the wall, and ran outside and turned off the power. Henderson Fire Department got here within minutes! Two engines with lights and sirens!!

They came in with all their fire gear on and used their axes to make this hole in my wall.

Our plug had a crack in it causing it to start on fire! It started sparking and smoking then the flames came! The flames went out when Keith turned off the power, luckily the flames didn't have a chance to ignite the insulation in the walls!!This is one of the firemen checking out the wall after they hosed it out.

Keith called our bishop and he along with two other men in the ward(one being an electrician) came over to help. They got the burned up area safe and the wires tied up so they wouldn't be a problem overnight and got our power turned back on. Keith slept on the couch last night with his flashlight, cell phone and fully dressed! I took the boys to my mom's house for the night, I was not comfortable with them staying at our house. After church today we came home and all is well. We cleaned up the mess from the wall being torn up, and arranged furniture so the hole won't be so appealing to little boys that like to get into things! We are staying at home tonight though. We were really lucky, had it been half hour later, we all would have been in bed and wouldn't have seen the smoke or realized that there was a fire until it would have been to late and would have ended up having to get out of the house through the window! As bad as it is, it could have been a whole lot worse. So, between the fire, Tommy's surgery and Tommy's infections I am done with my 3 bad things....who's next!!

BTW~ these pics were taken with my cell phone so the firemen wouldn't think i was crazy taking pictures for my blog!!