We Survived a Tornado!

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On Saturday evening, we had some storms roll through our area. While Shad and I were on a date night and were eating at a restaurant with some old college friends (a surprise birthday party for one friend we hadn't seen in 8 years), apparently the shopping complex next to us got hit by a EF-0 tornado (~90 mph winds)! Since (1) the window blinds were closed (the sun had been shining moments before) and (2) we never received a Tornado Warning (only a Severe T'storm Warning), we were completely oblivious until we left the restaurant after the fact! Very scary! Even scarier is that, had we not been with friends, we very well could've been at the movie theater in that complex! When we have a date night, we typically do dinner and a movie and are usually at the theater between 7:00 and 7:30, depending on the specific showtime! I'm so thankful that we had other plans that night!!

The whole time this was going on, Christopher was with Granddaddy at McDonald's...a little way down the street and out of harm's way.

MOPS Fundraiser Picture

A few weeks ago, my MOPS group sold $10 tickets to get your child's picture taken. The incentive was a "free" 8x10. Of course, the photographer then tried to sell you all the pictures. I took Christopher with no intention of buying any since we have school pictures coming up soon; I just wanted the free 8x10 (not to mention help out my MOPS group). Unfortunately for us, this photographer uses tuxes and fancy white dresses for the kids to dress up in. We did choose to put Christopher in a tux and OH. MY. GOODNESS...it was WAY TOO CUTE!!! Sadly, the cheapest price for the pictures was $140 (6 sheets), but the price of the package I wanted was $230 (11 sheets plus cd with copyright release)!!!!! <:-O Umm...NO WAY, JOSE!!!! The photographer was then willing to go down to $130 for 4 sheets. Heck, if I'm spending more than $100, I'm getting a heck of a lot more than FOUR sheets!!!!! That was $32.50 PER SHEET! Crazy!!! So, after all that, here's the free 8x10 pose that I chose:

Of course I'm biased, but isn't he the cutest????? :D

Christopher's Visit to the Fire Station

On Saturday, we took Christopher to Shad's hometown over in Monterey. We went to visit my dad first and stayed there for a few hours. After eating lunch, he had fun playing in the yard and the treehouse. He got his first opportunity to get paid for doing work. My dad needed his help picking up sticks around the yard and paid him $2.00. :D

We then went to the Volunteer Fire Department where Christopher took a tour. We got to see LOTS of firetrucks! Of course, I took lots of pictures, too. Here's the link to my Facebook photo album, but here are a few samples:









Afterward, we went to visit one of Shad's old friends and his family. We ended up staying longer than we'd planned, though (got to playing Wii...Christopher beat me at bowling!), and didn't get home until 10:00 pm. On top of that, we had the time change to factor in, so it was really more like 11:00 pm. Despite going nap-less, Christopher didn't fall asleep right away. He finally zonked when we were about 45 minutes from home. Needless to say, we were all dragging on Sunday morning when getting up for church!