Christmas and a tornado

The last few weeks have been pretty hectic! We have had Christmas with the Fairman family, a tornado and then Christmas with The Swearingens and the Hendricks. I'll start with the tornado first. I will be giving a short sweet version ha-ha

On Wednesday the 23rd, we were expecting nasty weather and thunderstorms. The news didn't act like there was anything to worry about, just a normal storm but Michael brought our flashlight into the bedroom anyway. We got in bed, got Parker fed and asleep and then Michael and I started watching a movie. About 20 minutes into the movie the power went out and Michael and I started hearing things fall on to the house, we also heard the wind start to pick up, it just blew faster and faster. Michael immediately told me to get Parker and get into the bathtub. After we got into the tub we heard a big crash, which was a tree falling into the kitchen. Michael got us safely out of the house and we walked a couple of blocks to Tommy and Belinda's truck to get out of there. When we got to the truck we met Delana and Gary who were obviously worried and let them know we were all alright. The next day Michael, his dad and a few of our friends went to the house to cut the trees in the front yard and get our cars out of there. Michael went into the back yard and saw another tree was leaned against the house directly over the bathtub where me and Parker were.

This is a picture of the front of the house, you can see the tree that is leaned against the back of the house.

This is the view from the front door

here is our kitchen

Another view of the kitchen

Here is the view from the back yard.

Thank you to all of our family and friends, we appreciate everything you have done for us.

I don't have much to say about Christmas besides that I don't have a lot of pictures of Parker and his gifts ha-ha and the fact that he slept a lot was part of the reason but here are a few pictures I did get, and a few from the hotel.

Parker getting a bath at the hotel, he is almost to tall for his tub now!

Snoozing at the hotel :)

Parker and Mi-Mi (12-19-09)

Parker and Mi-Mi with the singing dog from Aunt Donna, Uncle Forrest and Destiny

Parker and Great-Granny

Parker laying on his new Giraffe mat

Parker and Grandpa Mark

Parker and Mi-Mi

Parker's new jumper from Aunt Kim, Uncle Gene and family :)

A Blurry family picture :)

Parker and Layla at BeBe and T-Paw's

Parker and BeBe

Parker and PawPaw

Sorry I didn't have a whole lot of pictures but there are others on other cameras. Love y'all!