Very Humbling.....

Our YW class did a service project on Wed night for a devastated neighboring town thats not too far from here. We took them there and let them hand out cookies, doughnuts and cold bottled water to these sweet folks who have just about lost everything and are cleaning up now.

It was a very humbling experience for me to see that they were having to through ALL their household goods out to the curb that was damage by flooding to be picked up and hauled off. It made me realize how close that could have been us.

Before & After Ike Pictures

Here are some pictures of the minor damage around our house.
We were very blessed to not have anything major.


Here is before........

Here are the pictures after.........
Mainly bushes blown over, a tree limb snapped, trees de-leaved, and some shingles off the roof.

from the wind driven rain

our front yard bushes are all leaning to one side now

so crazy.

Random 'Evacuation Party' pictures.....

Just hangin out talking like high school kids...hahaha

Uncle Torry & Gabe

Clever Kody =o)



An Austin Sunrise

Going on a walk


Only in TX have I seen they actually call these what they're supposed to be.....an Outhouse!!
Not 'Johhny on the Spot' or 'Honey Bucket'

Hurricane Week Recap.....

Since the week we evacuated and were gone was so crazy here is a recap on our 'Hurricane Evacuation Party' at Torry & Lexy's house. We are soo grateful that we were able to leave and had a place to go when so many people didn't. Thanks again Torry & Lexy for letting us crash at your house for a week despite all the craziness.

Hurricane snack shopping before we left

My sister in law had been in St Kitts for 10 days and because of Ike she had to fly into Dallas. So my bro-in-law flew from Austin to Dallas to help her drive the 4 hours home since she flew in so late.....he surprised her!

We stayed at their house with our kids and their two boys while they were gone for the night.
This is what it looks like to buy Happy Meals for 6 kids!!

SATURDAY-The day of Ike
Some more Hinsons came over to hang out and we went to dinner at a local Mexican food resturant.

Interesting Times......

We got home Thursday night and luckily before I left Austin I stocked up on groceries to bring back with us because I didn't know what our grocery stores would be like around here. My sister & her girls came down yesterday to stay with us for a few days cause they still don't have power at their house. So my sister and I ran out to WalMart to get a few items and it was an eery, scary site to see the WM shelves practically bare!! I have never seen anything like it. It made me realize this is why we are counseled to be self-reliant and to be prepared for times like these. Lucky for us we only needed a couple of things and didn't have a huge grocery list!!


Here are some pics I had to take from that experience.

Hardly any 'food' to pick from in the freezer section.....

But by golly they have plenty of Blue Bell Ice Cream!!!
Only in TEXAS!!

Our church building still doesn't have power so we had to have our Sacrament meeting outside today. Made me think about the pioneers and how they did this all the time?!!
It was a neat experience! Hot but neat. This is the only time I'll probably not complain we meet at 9am!! hahaha