The Napping House...

Where everyone is sleeping.

Well almost everyone. Hey someone had to take the pictures.:)

A little Dirt

A Little dirt won't hurt Right...Besides that's what boys are for.

Tennyson found some sand like dirt behind our car. So he enlisted his brother to help him throw it. You can see who got the best of it. I laughed pretty hard when I saw my little pale boy all brown. I especially like the patch around his eye. I think it makes him look like one of the brown spotted puppies.

Plus these pictures show off my beautiful roses blooming in the background. :)

More pics

I snagged a few more pictures of the storms destruction from a friend.

This tree was just down the road from us on 19th st.

I think this is the remnants of one of the ward members trailer home.

This is my friend Kristie's house. She was actually in the living room when the tree started to sway so she grabbed her kids and ran for the basement. The tree fell as they went down the stairs. They are lucky that it didn't go right through the house. It took several days to get a company that could take it off the house and during that time the tree would move about a foot a day.

Still doing clean up here. My land lady has someone that will be coming in the next week to fix our roof. So we are on the up and up.

Inland Hurricane

On May 8th we had what experts have been calling an Inland Hurricane. They are extremely rare. I had never heard of such a thing but after living through it I won't argue with experts. I have a few pictures but no real great ones. Our camera battery was dead and since power was out we had to come up with a creative way to charge it. After a few days we remembered we had a plug in we could connect to our car.
This tree fell across 19th st next to our friends the Mclaughlan's. We had escaped our house to stay in their basement during the major part of the storm.

I was glad we did because this tree fell on our house. It looks like the roots have been rotting for a while. The Tree was still alive but apparently not that strong. Thank goodness it only went through the roof and not the interior ceiling. I wish I would have got a picture before they cut it off and up.

Here is the damage it did. At least it didn't break our windows. Our land lady is going to replace at least this half of the roof. She might go ahead and do the whole roof. I just have to say I love my land lady. When other people had to wait for days to get tree's off their houses, my land lady had a people over first thing the next morning. That was on Saturday. Then first thing Monday morning she had her workers over to inspect and clean up. This may not seem like much but for a woman who has over twenty properties to care for not to mention her own I think it's a great deal. Especially since all of them at least had down tree's if not structural damage like ours. So here's to the greatest Land Lady we've ever had.

All and all we are doing well. Our power is on and we are returning to some semblance of normality.(if we were normal before this)

Refiners fire

Some days are so painful. I often wonder why it is that we have to suffer so much. Sometimes it's just the happenings of life that cause us pain. Sometimes it's the choices of others that cause us to hurt. Lately I think for me it has been both. I saw this on Savannah's blog and it helped me to realize that God is still there for me even when I feel like no one else cares. Even when he see's me hurting he knows that it's for the best and in the end I will come out stronger.

Malachi 3:3 says:"He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver."
This verse puzzled some women in bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God.One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible study.That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all impurities.The women thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: 'He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.' She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time.The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, 'How do you know when the silver is fully refined?'He smiled at her and answered,'Oh, that's easy...when I see my image in it.'
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

Days of old

So do you remember playing light bright. I sure do and I loved it. A few years ago I happen to find one at a salvation army store so I snached it up. I'm glad I did because if not we wouldn't have been able to have this wonderful moment.
Here we are watching Tennyson put in white pegs for a cloud. We were so proud of him because he was participating instead of messing up what we were doing. What a big step.

Then once he had the hang of it we went to work.

Here is the beautiful finished project. I love spending time with my boys. Anyone have any good stories about light bright?