Friday, May 30, 2008
Tornados!!!
I'm sure many of you have heard by now about the tornado's that went through Kearney Thursday evening. I just happened to be here to experience them! (lucky me!) Mom and Dad had a big drapery job in Hays KS, so I came to Kearney to stay with the kids. (which are only Relyssa & Kaela since Meshayla and Kara are at Preps with Jana, and Morgen went to help Mom & Dad.)
We knew we were supposed to get a bad storm Thursday night, but I never really thought it would be this bad! We were listening to the radio and they were doing a phone broadcast from the west edge of town where one of the DJ's was, and hearing things like "yep, we're seeing some definite rotation in the clouds, it's looking pretty bad out here, oh, looks like a funnel coming out of the clouds, oh wow, there's another funnel that appeared to have just touched down from what we can see....."
Not long after that, the power went out and we sat in the dark, in the closet under the basement stairs and waited and listened and tried to calm a 6 year old who was quite scared, I'm sure we all said a prayer or two, and when the 6 year old wouldn't calm down, we decided to sing some hymns. That did the trick and I think we even managed to get a little giggle out of her when we couldn't remember some of the words to the hymns we've all (all as in Relyssa & I) known for years!
Trey was totally silent through the whole thing, I thought he had fallen asleep! Which of course was good since we were cramped, in the dark and couldn't move enough to get comfortable anyway!
It was so loud even down in our shelter, I was picturing all this terrible damage to the house, roof gone, windows blown out, or something, but when things calmed down and we decided to peek out, the house was still standing minus a few shingles! Grandma Priscilla's house is right next doors to mom & Dad's, and she lost 2 big trees in her front yard and another along her driveway lost a big branch. Mom & Dad lost a good size branch off of their older pear tree, but the rest of the fruit trees look fine.
Ryan stopped by after things were cleared up and was going to go out to survey the damage so I sent my camera with him so I wouldn't be tempted to be one of "those crazy people driving around to look at things"!
Thanks Ryan & Keith T. for the great pictures!
The pictures in my video are some of my own, some of Relyssa's, some of Ryan or Keith's and also some from the Kearney Hub web site.
Here's a few interesting video's on youtube from the tornado...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1vCH4F9AiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcfbhCA0pBA
We knew we were supposed to get a bad storm Thursday night, but I never really thought it would be this bad! We were listening to the radio and they were doing a phone broadcast from the west edge of town where one of the DJ's was, and hearing things like "yep, we're seeing some definite rotation in the clouds, it's looking pretty bad out here, oh, looks like a funnel coming out of the clouds, oh wow, there's another funnel that appeared to have just touched down from what we can see....."
Not long after that, the power went out and we sat in the dark, in the closet under the basement stairs and waited and listened and tried to calm a 6 year old who was quite scared, I'm sure we all said a prayer or two, and when the 6 year old wouldn't calm down, we decided to sing some hymns. That did the trick and I think we even managed to get a little giggle out of her when we couldn't remember some of the words to the hymns we've all (all as in Relyssa & I) known for years!
Trey was totally silent through the whole thing, I thought he had fallen asleep! Which of course was good since we were cramped, in the dark and couldn't move enough to get comfortable anyway!
It was so loud even down in our shelter, I was picturing all this terrible damage to the house, roof gone, windows blown out, or something, but when things calmed down and we decided to peek out, the house was still standing minus a few shingles! Grandma Priscilla's house is right next doors to mom & Dad's, and she lost 2 big trees in her front yard and another along her driveway lost a big branch. Mom & Dad lost a good size branch off of their older pear tree, but the rest of the fruit trees look fine.
Ryan stopped by after things were cleared up and was going to go out to survey the damage so I sent my camera with him so I wouldn't be tempted to be one of "those crazy people driving around to look at things"!
Thanks Ryan & Keith T. for the great pictures!
The pictures in my video are some of my own, some of Relyssa's, some of Ryan or Keith's and also some from the Kearney Hub web site.
Here's a few interesting video's on youtube from the tornado...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1vCH4F9AiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcfbhCA0pBA
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
8 years ago....
Happy Anniversary (a few days late) to us!!!
8 years ago we started a beautiful journey together, for better, for worse, forever.
It's been amazing and every year it gets better! Thanks to my wonderful husband for the most wonderful 8 years of my life.
May 24 Hapy Birthday Dalayna!
Since I've been out of town, this is a belated post! Happy Birthday to my Sister Dalayna!!!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Happy Birthday Laura!!!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Graduation Cakes
Graduation Cakes from this weekend. First one is an 11x15 chocolate fudge cake with almond icing. Next is a 15x22 white almond sour cream cake with almond icing.
Congratulations to the class of 2008!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Happy Birthday Derek!
Happy 24th Birthday to my Brother Derek!
This means that for 5 days, mom will have 3 kids who are age 24, 25 and 26! Hmmm, I wonder if we kept her busy?!
(Picture taken November 2003 while we were visiting Derek in Las Vegas)
This means that for 5 days, mom will have 3 kids who are age 24, 25 and 26! Hmmm, I wonder if we kept her busy?!
Monday, May 12, 2008
My Perfect Mother's Day
Happy (day late) Mother's day to all you mothers out there!
I had a wonderful mother's day!
It started out with a special mommy picture with my 2 sweet kid's
I had a wonderful mother's day!It started out with a special mommy picture with my 2 sweet kid's
Then we attempted a family picture, but when you're taking a picture with a remote and the kid's don't know where to look since there's no one standing behind the camera.....this is the best you get!
After meeting, Jim grilled steaks and made loaded baked potatoes and we had a delicious lunch!
Dessert was of course the infamous Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Dipped Strawberries!
Jim didn't want to admit he was impressed by them but he finally said (after helping himself to a third one) that if you're going to ruin a strawberry, this is the way to do it!
The kids of course dove right in!
After my leisurely "Sunday Siesta", we went out to t he green house to get some tomato and pepper plants. Decided to wait on flowers since we need to move the flower beds first.
After supper, we took the kids in the jogging stroller for a walk to the park, and tried to walk a few of those strawberries off!
Before bed, I got a long relaxing massage compliments of my wonderful husband, followed by a long bubble bath.
What a wonderful Mother's Day!!!
Dessert was of course the infamous Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Dipped Strawberries!
Jim didn't want to admit he was impressed by them but he finally said (after helping himself to a third one) that if you're going to ruin a strawberry, this is the way to do it!
The kids of course dove right in!
After my leisurely "Sunday Siesta", we went out to t he green house to get some tomato and pepper plants. Decided to wait on flowers since we need to move the flower beds first.
After supper, we took the kids in the jogging stroller for a walk to the park, and tried to walk a few of those strawberries off!
Before bed, I got a long relaxing massage compliments of my wonderful husband, followed by a long bubble bath.
What a wonderful Mother's Day!!!
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