Friday, October 19, 2007

Update on last night...

Alright...so after our close call last night, all we experienced was a couple more good thunderstorms and some heavy rain, no more tornadoes!! Thankfully! Here are a few pictures, one from the Shell gas station just down the road (David should be really familiar with this gas station!!!), one from a tree down not far from us and one from the Kroger right around the corner from us. Shopping carts were flung into the dry cleaners right next to it and there was a lot of glass to clean up. We'll have to go check it out later today. We're so thankful our first taste of a tornado wasn't so serious and we're hoping all our friends and family here in Louisville can say the same this morning!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

A close call...

We've had a pretty heart-racing evening here in Louisville....we've had a taste of our first tornado. Kevin had just left to go on splits with the missionaries when I heard the tornado siren start, so I immediately called Kevin and he was already on his way home, having heard the sirens as well. We stayed glued to the news, watching the storm draw closer as the Tornado Warning continued. I had been about to put Alexa down for the night but they were saying on the news that a tornado could touch down any minute and since her room is on the top floor of our building, I decided to keep her with us. Not long after, the calm dark skies outside were broken by some loud SNAPS and CRACKS followed by wind like we've never seen....so we very quickly ducked into our storage closet. We waited there for a few minutes but the storm passed quickly and we ventured out of the closet to once again watch the news. It wasn't long until they started announcing reports of a funnel cloud touching down in the Frankfort Avenue/Crescent Hill neighborhood...OUR neighborhood! YIKES! It's now been about an hour and a bit since that happened and more reports are coming in of huge trees falling over, damage done to buildings, shopping carts flung into the glass windows of the Kroger strip mall right around the corner from us! This storm was definitely right on top of us and we know that although it wasn't super serious....we were still blessed and watched out for. We're so very grateful for that and to know we're still safe tonight. However....there's another string of storms with the same severity heading our way so we'll keep you posted!

Monday, October 15, 2007

Makin' Messes

Today had been a productive day...everything was going well - we'd gone for a walk in the park, came home and I'd made my dinners for dinner group while Alexa was napping and had even started laundry. Then Alexa woke up and she was in a pretty good mood and we were just playing. Well, she loves those Gerber fruit puffs and also likes to just shake the cannister that they come in. And I had briefly taken my attention away from her as I was watching probably A Baby Story or something :-) and then looked over and found this! I didn't think she could get the lid off....but apparently I was wrong....WAY wrong!! Anyways, she thought she was pretty funny and I couldn't help but laugh so we took some pictures and a video before cleaning up the mess. You gotta love kids! I know this is just a glimpse of what is yet to come...