Thursday, October 7, 2010

Massive Destruction

At 5:15 am yesterday morning we had 2 tornados touch ground in our neighborhood.  One touched down on my street, the other up the street.  I'm still so speechless, I don't even know the words to say to express the fear I had as I walked out my front door and witnessed a massive detruction such as this one. 

By the grace of god my family is unharmed, as well as the rest of my community.  Even though 32 homes need to be rebuilt.  So many of our friends & neighbors are suffering huge losses.  I can't thank those enough who called us continuously to check on us and offer any help needed.


This house was 3 houses down from ours, they lost their entire roof..it collapsed on them in bed but no one was harmed...its a miracle!
This house had the same thing, notice the garage is gone with the roof, they are lying in the forest behind the houses

This was walking up the stairs in our friends' house helping them get their kids' clothing, roof is completly gone


this was their kitchen entry...glass all over the floor

Their cars

This house was 2 houses down from me, total devastation!


This is my house! Someone was watching out for my family...thank you god!
Our backyard, the most of our damage...

I will never forget this day



Saturday, October 2, 2010

End of Summer BBQ

As promised, I have some pictures to upload from our bbq.  We had some great people share the day with us, too bad I don't have a picture of Robin & Keith!  They are friends I met on a meetup group, I'm so glad to have met them because our kids are almost all the same ages and they get along so wonderfully.

Paige and her BFF Shelby upstairs being goofy
Kyla the diva...lord help us all!


Alexa and her sweet little friend Aurora playing grown-ups

Luv this girl, so beautiful!

The parents~

This is Shelby & her mom Loraine, they are so awesome!  I'm so glad Paige has made such a great friend!

My favorite friends~The Hoys!  Love these peeps!!



Time Flies!

Holy heck, can you believe it's already beginning of October?? My entire year has just flown by like a rocket! I'm going into my favorite time of year..hip hip hooray!!

It's been forever since I've blogged, but I have been extremely busy and overloaded with other priorities. This PTO position I'm holding seems to be taking a heck of a lot more time then I expected, but I still love it!
Kids are doing awesome and I'll blog updates once I have more time!