CARTER PLAYING BASEBALL

 Carter is playing baseball this summer.  I think his parents get a little frustrated with him.  He is only seven.  Both his Mom and Dad played ball in college.  His Mom played softball and his Dad played baseball. 

 Carter likes to catch.  Michelle said he learned quickly to put his hand behind his back to keep it from getting hit.

RUMBLE

I am going to embarrass Tracy by posting this. She went to a paint party and painted this. I think she did a really good job. BTW it is the Thunder mascot Rumble.

OUR UNEXPECTED TRIP

We made an unexpected trip to Mississippi this week.  My brother passed away on Sunday.  He had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago.  He did chemo up until the last week.  I lost my other brother back in 1994 in a car accident.

We all met in North Little Rock on Wednesday night.  Tracy stayed with Kim.   Hubby and I and Michelle and family got hotel rooms.  We then traveled the three hours to Batesville, Ms. Thursday morning.

Carter and Karlie went to the funeral but Abby went to daycare.  Kim didn't think Abby would be quiet during the service.

The cousins all had plans to go swimming in the hotel pool after we returned Thursday night.  Just as we got into North Little Rock the tornado sirens started going off.  So, hubby and I ended up going back to our hotel and Michelle and family and Kim, Abby and Tracy went to Michelle and their hotel  so all the kids could swim.  The cousins enjoyed being together, even though it was just for a short time.

 Carter, Abby and Karlie in the hotel room.

We got up Friday morning and met Michelle and family at the Old Mill before we headed back to Oklahoma.  The kids enjoyed going to the Old Mill but I didn't get any pictures of them with Abby since Kim had to work and Abby had to go to the daycare.

Carter and Karlie are looking at the turtles.  Looks like Karlie is ready to jump in.

They also saw a snake.

We made it back to our house about six last night.  The tornado was on I-40 in El Reno.  We travel I-40 all the way to Mississippi and back.  We  would have been in trouble if we had  been two hours later in getting home.

CARTER AND KARLIE'S MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

Carter and Karlie spent their Memorial Day weekend at their neighborhood pool.  Michelle said the water was cold but they didn't seem to mind.

Karlie and her little neighbor friend.

Thought this was a cute picture.  Karlie seems to know what it is all about.

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

Kim and Abby arrived Friday night to spend Memorial Day weekend with us.  Abby was sure a  nice distraction from the stressful week we had after the tornadoes hit on Sunday and Monday.

On Saturday, we all went downtown to Bricktown and rode the water taxis on the canal.  Abby was so excited that she was going to get to ride in a boat, but I think she was thinking the boats were like the ones we saw when we rented the lake house on Grand Lake.  This boat didn't go quite as fast as those did.  But, she enjoyed it none the less.

She enjoyed playing on this statue.

Looking cool in her mommy's sunglasses.

On Sunday, she got to go to Frontier City.  It is a big amusement park that her mommy and Aunts went to many times when they were growing up.  She had lots of fun. She was really good at paddling her canoe.

Tracy took her to our neighborhood playground and let her play.  She is very brave at climbing.  No one in the pool, it was too cool here.

TORNADO-MAY 20, 2013

Just wanted to let everyone know that my family and I are all OK.  The tornado hit about 23 miles from where we live.  The one that hit on Sunday, hit about two miles from our house and less than a mile from Tracy's house.  That is the first time that hubby has ever gotten in the little room, underneath the stairs with me.  It was pretty scary and we knew that there was a chance of more tornadoes on Monday.  I never thought there would be another tornado like the one that hit Moore, Ok. on May 3rd, 1999.  I don't think other Oklahomans did either.  But, this one was even worse, over two miles wide.

Kim had a friend that lost her house and her grandmother lost her house also.  She had gone to pick up her daughter from school and the teacher said she could not leave.  Her daughter just ran past her and left anyhow.  They barely made it to her grandmother's storm shelter.  When it was over and they came out, her grandmother's house was gone and her car had been thrown against a tree.
Hubby had an agency in Moore and around nine people in that agency lost their houses.

So, we do have people we can give individually to.  Tracy and I had around 14 plastic storage bins that we emptied in our garage sale last Friday so, he took those to the agency on Wednesday.  People cannot find the storage bins in Oklahoma City now.  So thankful that we are not going through what they are going through and that we can help out in anyway possible.

LITTLE PIGLET

Miss Abby and the little piglet.