Please Pray for Those In Need, MIL is Without Power in Huntsville

Today my MIL is still without Power and not sure when it will be turned back on. Most of our family is there in the Huntsville area and spread out from there.

The pictures show devastation.

Please pray for those in need and Pray for many families that have lost loved ones.

We are very lucky as everyone in our Family is fine, safe and sound but in the dark.

Happy June and a Hail Storm

I can't believe it's June already, it's a good month cuse my B-day is on the 25th...I'll be 31..GASP...I can't believe I admitted that..still feel like I'm 18..lol..

We have been busy with the yard..mowing and weedwacking..6 acres can get out of hand so fast! Hoss is enjoying being able to stay outside full time.

We had an afternoon storm today that has brought nickel size Hail, the kids are enjoying watching it and I had to snap a pic, Tankers did not wet his pants..He spilled some juice in the kitchen..I just now spotted poor boys pants..lol..

I better run, the storm is picking up...

Whatcha Working On Wed. ~ Snow/Ice Storm

This is what I hope to work on today if we still have power, It's a nice burgandy mirror that I want to clean up and paint on the bottom "Faith~Family~Friends" in a nice Tan color.





This is us today, level 2 Snow Emergency so far..Ice and now heavy snow..I'm hoping that the power stays on, there is no way I could drive us to my Mom's house in town. It's very loud outside as the wind hits the trees, pops and cracking.

WE HAVE POWER!!

WOW, so our power went off around 4:30 on Sunday, right as I was thinking about dinner, We had leftover wind from Ike blast through here along with some other storm and got gusts up to 75 mph. The wind lasted for hours and while the kids and I were hiding under the beds my lovely DH was outside loving it! He also helped the next door neighbor with a fallen tree and helped me tie down the grill to the porch cuse it was rolling across it.. We lost many tree limps but not a whole tree this time...something worse than a tree..our run-in shelter for Hoss down in the pasture! DH was talking to the neighbor and I was on the hill watching the horses never mind the wind storm and graze when a huge gust of wind picked up the shelter and rolled it across the whole pasture! It ripped the tarp and broke many bolts clear off! The horses freaked and bolted one way and then the other so I had to put the kids in the house and run to grab DH, He had to ride the 4-wheeler down the hill because of his knee and I drove the truck..This huge run-in shelter was rolling around the pasture with metal parts falling off of it everywhere! We caught it and had to take the tarp off so it wasn't acting like a parachute anymore and we slowly grabbed the horses and walked them back up the barn and in the stalls, now later on is the hard part of finding every bit of metal in very tall grass, until then Hoss and Pipen are living in the barn. This all took about 2 hours..so we got back into the house and grabbed...nothing to drink...no power means we have no water because we have an electric well! So we had to load the kids up in the truck and drive to find something to drink..I was craving a diet coke now!! We drove about 8 miles into town and my mom had no power and a tree fell on her sidewalk and barely missed her car...The whole town of Lancaster is without power...one gas station open and boy ya should have seen the lines for that, we waited about 1/2 an hour for gas! We never found dinner and we went back and checked on my mom again and picked up my sister to come over and help. came back to more none powered up house! So we went to bed after a dinner of PB&J's to wake up at 7am to our Power! I grabbed a whole coffee pot full of the good stuff and tried to call mom but she still has no power, called her cell and she was on her way over to my house for coffee...so I had my mom and Sis plus then my other sis and her family showed up...then after lunch our power went back off for about 2 hours and we thought it was never coming back on but around 3 it came back on. So school has been canceled on Monday and now today due to lack of power and my mom said that she heard that her power should be back on around Friday Midnight. It hasn't been easy and my mom is having a rough time of it but we are not as bad as Houston, I'm praying for them down there!

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Today is Humid and cloudy outside, It might storm this afternoon, we are enjoying our AC and watching Boomerang, the kids just got done watching the Pound Puppies...I used to watch it when I was their age and I even had a few..LOL...

Today I'd Love to start a new Stitchery, My fingers are itching to start it, Ever craft in spurts? One week I'm busy busy and then the next I go without touching a stitchery for forever it seems!

I have it all ready, a nice Willow Tree with the verse "Down By The Willow"....BUT....
I REALLY need to help Abigail clean this.....
OOppsss Richard snuck in...LOL...
I REALLY have to help Richard clean this too, MMM..Boys seem to be messier than girls!

Thank Goodness Crystal is keeping her room semi clean and makes her bed in the mornings!!

I'm also stuck in a rut for dinners...I am in the need of fast dinners that can feed a family of five and DOESN'T come out of a box!! Might go through some of my Gooseberry Patch books later today for some new ideas...

Hope everyone Enjoys their day!!

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I finished this and have an idea for a frame, It will hang in Abigail's room later on. I have no idea why this is underlined and blue..LOL...I'm busy cleaning house and tons of laundry today since we were not able to do anything yesterday! Sorry not very exciting but I've had enough excitement for the week..LOL..

Storm Damage~Tues. Morning

We were rudely awakened at 4 am Tues. morning to a HORRIBLE thunderstorm which brought hail and 100 mile per hour cross winds. Our lights flickered and then went out for good, we all fell back to sleep, the kids piled into one bed. We then woke up very late, rushed around to get out of the house and when we stepped outside this is what we found, no getting around this! Our Fav. tree, and DH had just put up a swing for the kids...so sad! It took the truck and four wheeler to get this cleared from the drive-way and then we drove around to look at the storm damage, other families were not so lucky, house/porch/car damage was the talk of the day. By 6 pm and still no power or water we went to a hotel were the kids swam and we watched t.v.

We got back to feed the horses this morning and the power was back on, we lost a few items in the fridge/freezer but the animals were fine.


DH starting to saw the tree, it had split into 4 pieces!
Alot of cleanup!
Our drive-way.
Our swing, it will be missed!

So I guess this is were we will be this weekend, outside with a chainsaw!!