Beauty & the Beast

I am tlaking about the weather here. The past few days have been so beautiul...we spend time in the pool, looking outside, walking a little. In fact it is getting hot. Carter and Katelyn, (the little girl I watch) had a lot of fun in the pool. Katlyn really likes to splash while Carter takes it all in. He doesn't find getting splashed a little. Katelyn had the cutest little outfit...I love the glasses, she also had a cute hat to go with it.

My little G.Q. he started to turn his head for photos, "mom, get my good side."

Video of the kids playing in the pool.

Carter really laughs a lot these days, mostly when we play with him, but he also laughs just at anything. Carter laughs every time Koda wags his tail.

Last night the Beast came out... I was at our friends Ty & Kara's house for dinner when Chris came by after work. We were playing the new Band game...guitar hero, but with the whole band. (I forget the name, and Kara I need a raincheck since i didn't get a change to play.) Anywho. Chris told us there was a tornado watch in effect and it should hit their town at 7:01. So we looked outside, sure enough it all of a sudden turned dark, and their backyard was really getting windy. Kara's parents were visiting, and let me tell you they have experience and were very efficient. Kara's mom had a mattress in the bathroom within about 2 minutes, all the women and children were in the bathtub, and the men were getting flash lights and the rest. (oh, and we did all this in the dark, the power of course went off.) We sat in that tub with 4 kids (Mikayla, Lucas, Carter and new Baby James, 5 days old.) for about 40 minutes. No one was scared, but they were just ready to get out. To make a long story short, we were all okay. Just lots or really heavy wind, rain and lightening. This is what we found when we went outside. Once Chris and I got home, we checked on our veggy garden, and I only lost one stock of corn...not bad. It does however lean a little bit now.

Today it is rainy and still having a ton of lightening. I guess we will just stay inside today and play games.