How Hurricane Ike hit the Ozarks

This is a bad picture, but here is the tree before it fell. If you look right past Patrick, you can see the base of the tree covered with snow.

Our neighbors across the street had this gorgeous 100+ year old tree. It was probably one of the most beautiful trees I had ever seen. But, on the night that Hurricane Ike hit the Ozarks that tree was blown over by the winds.
In this picture you can see how it toppled the fence. It was completely covering the entire fence. Our neighbors are very industrious and that next day they were already cutting and burning up the tree.
You can see in this picture a dark spot in the middle of the tree. That is because it is hollow. Which is probably why it came down in the first place.

Chris and I had heard a huge crack at about 3:30 in the morning, and it felt like something had hit our house. So we got up and started looking around. It was so dark that you couldn't see across the street. The next morning when I looked out front, I knew what we had heard. Our neighbors confirmed it. Oh, what a night.

One costume down...one to go.

Okay, so it is that time of year, when I have finally nailed them down on what they want to be for Halloween. This is Megan's third change...At first she wanted to be Cinderella (again), then she wanted to be Alice in Wonderland (bought the material, and I was going to cut it out last week when something inside of me said don't)Anyway, went out to Walmart to buy dog food when she saw it....a tinkerbell costume. She was enchanted. We went to Grandma's house on Saturday and scoured "Kerry's House of Fabric" for just the right color. She had it in fleece (which works great in the midwest because it is usually cold for Hallowen)and it is also great because I don't have to finish any of the edges, but the only problem was there was only 2/3's of a yard. AAAAHHHHH No Problem. I create my own pattern adding a white sparklie top thing and ta da, we have tinkerbell. Of course she will also be wearing cotton rights and I am going to make shoe covers out of the rest of the green fabric with a white poof on it. As soon as she put it on she demanded to know where her wings were. We found an old set of wings that I had made for her a few years ago and those will work until I can get the new wings made. Grandma gave us this beautiful sheer fabric that is several different colors. Megan calls it her rainbow 'terial.

I guess you could say she is thrilled with the results.

Baby William came to visit

Megan just loves William...She asked Uncle John if she could keep him. She then handed Uncle John her bunny Fluffy and said "You keep Fluffy, and I'll keep William...okay?"

She is such a little mom, if he spits up she is right there with a spit cloth to clean his mouth.

Patrick loves William, but doesn't understand why he needs to cry. He'll figure it out.

I've opened a store on Etsy!!

Okay, I have said that I was going to open a store forever...and I do mean forever. But, I have finally done it. I think that I was inspired by Ivy. If she can do it, so can I. My store name is BaabaaMoos. For those of you who know us, you will know that when Patrick was born we called him Baabaa head, and when Megan was born we called her Moo. So, in honor of my beautiful children, my store is named BaabaaMoos. I am so excited. I am waiting patiently (NOT) for someone to buy some of my wares, and hopefully it will be a successful venture. Here is the link to check my store out... www.BaabaaMoos.etsy.com Hope I did that right.

Happy Looking.

Jen