The Winds of School Cancellation

Hurricane Ike flew through here on Sunday. We had 40 mph sustained winds with gusts up to 80 mph. Lots of fun. The whole family sat outside for a while in the wind, enjoying the blowing and watching what the winds were doing to the newly planted lawn up the street. At one point, Kris was down the hill from our house looking for Ryan's picnic table, which at the time was one of the only things left outside (we found it). The power was out for about 3 hours, which bothered Ryan since he couldn't understand why we couldn't turn the tv on. Luckily it was in the afternoon, so it was still light out. Because of the storm, school was cancelled for 2 days. One thing I thought was hilarious was that the local tv stations didn't have any other background for school closings than the snow one they use in the winter! We had some roof damage and a lot of trees limbs down, but little else. There are people who were still out of power today, so we're praying they can get everyone back up soon.



Ryan was sick this past weekend, finishing the first full week of school by bringing home a horrible cold. He probably wouldn't have gone to school on Monday if he had it. He threw up on Sunday and Daddy was lucky enough to get to clean him up. He made it to the potty for the third round. So most of the weekend Ryan played cars, either with me or Kris.

I went to a mom to mom sale on Saturday and returned home with a toy to sit at for Emma. I'm trying to encourage her to sit by herself as much as possible. She enjoyed the toy (but not as much as Ryan did for some reason). Other than that, we've been busy figuring out how to use our new tv, installing the wall mount for it, installing the shelf in the garage and finishing the porch chairs. Well, this is to say Kris was doing all this, while I kept the kids busy (mostly putting them down for naps - that's all I seem to do anymore). Kris wanted me to mention that the shelf in the garage was designed by him with inspiration from the TX house.



We're getting ready for our families to come in to town for Emma's baptism this week (no I can't tell you the difference between a baptism and christening - to me they are one in the same). So I got to take both kids to the grocery store on Tuesday (big mistake) and try to get the house in order. Luckily, we are almost there. The troops start rolling in tomorrow, with my mom being the first one here and the Harpers to follow early Friday. Kris is excited to get some help chopping down a tree and mounting the tv.