Our wild ride with Ike

Our gazebo twisted up

Look we have neighbors!!

The flood at Grandpa's house

Me an Grandpa I am just sleeping away!

What make life worth while.

Taking out the "dirty laundry"

Showing my baby blues

I believe that is water in your house.

FEMA Pod here we come

Well, let me just start off by thanking God for everything he has done for us and our families. We had a wild ride with Hurricane Ike just like many others we were told we had to leave our home and evacuate on Thursday. So we packed our little car with as much as we could and headed off to Spring. We went to our friend Manuel and Roxanne's house where we ended up having to leave while the eye of the storm passed over us. There were two tall pine trees leaning on one other one and they were all leaning toward the house(the part where we were all sleeping). SO instead of chancing it we left to Manuel's sister's house down the road. There we road out the rest of the storm. All this time little Dylan was soooo good, but like any new mother I started to worry because he felt really hot. We then left and went to my Father's house where he had a generator but, low and behold it ended up flooding in their house the next morning. Boy, what a journey this turned out to be. We finally arrived home no electricity until 4pm. We felt so lucky when we finally got it we called up everyone that we could get through to and invited them to come stay in the AC. We were so exhausted when we got home, but straight to the FEMA pod and cleaning the house we went. After all of this Felicia was over playing with Dylan doing his new favorite thing(hanging upside down and swinging) when......we heard his first laugh! We didn't even realize it at first then when we did we could not get a giggle on camera. We will keep trying though.