Fire!!!

I think that the title explains everything. It has been a sad time here at my house since Sunday night. We were winding down that night...the kids were eating popsicles, I was lounging on the couch talking to my dad on the phone, and Matt was picking up...when he noticed a fog rolling in on our property. I saw him go to the window several times, wondering why it looked so different outside. When he went outside he started screaming...the detached garage was completely engulfed in flames. He ran outside and I followed...there was nothing we could do. It was all closed up and the wind was whipping the flames around. My mother lost her three last dogs that night...I had just put them in the garage for the night...we are so devastated. We evacuated the kids out of the house...running along the pasture fence, because we didn't know if the fire was going to spread. Thank goodness we had such a wet summer! All I remember is handing my baby to the neighbor as her boyfriend ran to the garage. Matt was able to move our cars, and then get my mom out of the house...pushing her wheelchair all the way across the street in the mud. I am not sure how he did it! We are all safe...that's the most important thing! We lost all the things that we store...thousands of dollars of tools, lawn equipment...pictures my mom kept from over twenty years ago...all of our extra clothes, baby equipment, tubs of Christmas ornaments...it is too much to even number. And the hardest thing to do is to have to make a list of everything you had for our insurance company ...if you had to itemize everything in your garage without looking, could you?
The Fire Marshall decided that it was a faulty line in a shop vac that was in the garage. It was plugged in by accident that afternoon when we were out there cleaning. We were prepping the garage to close it in and make a mother-in-law apartment.
Here are all the shots. The fire crews were awesome. They took care of us, and didn't leave until there wasn't any chance it could spread again. The Edgewater crew was awesome!!! They even took the time to bury the dogs almost at midnight...how precious is that! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
So where does this take us! We are still in this numb mode. We have never experienced so much devastation in our lives. I am in total disbelief and in a state of total loss. The whole night has gone through my head a thousand times. I am thankful for my family safe and sound...but at the same time I feel like I have been punched! I ask for your prayers...for the healing to begin and for God to show his greater purpose!