Sunday, May 29, 2011

Big sister

Corinne is taking her job as big sister very seriously. She is very good to Kaitlin and so far no problems. (knock on wood) She loves her so much and it's so cute to watch her talk to Kaitlin and take care of her. I love it.




Kaitlin goes for a ride!



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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Tornado

This tree went down just outside of Corinne's window. The upstairs apartments were damaged, but ours didn't get touched. This was the storm Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. They said this was caused by a small tornado. We heard the tornado alarms go off and turned on the news, when it started to reach Birmingham, we got Corinne up and all hid in the bathroom. It was a little scary. The power shut off and we heard loud wind noises and crashes but it was over quickly. I didn't expect this one because they said we would have tornadoes Wednesday night...which we did, but this one, the night before, effected us more. We are so grateful for your calls, texts, concerns and prayers. We are so blessed to be safe and still have a home. We were without power for a few days and all of our food went bad, but that was it for us. (You can click on the pictures to make them bigger).

This is our apartment looking toward the back. When we got up in the morning there was debris everywhere.

We had a hard time finding a way out to the main road as trees were down everywhere...just to be clear, this was the storm before the big tornadoes- those hit that night.

Here we are at Don's parent's house waiting for the big tornadoes to hit. This is a room under their basement. We felt pretty safe.
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Tornado continued

Just a few pictures of damage in our ward, again this was the storm the night before the tornadoes. I don't have pictures of what the tornadoes did, but there are plenty on-line. Don and Corinne went to help with some clean-up in our ward. After things were more organized, Don and a lot of men from the church spent hours and hours on Saturdays and Sundays with clean-up and will continue to do so. Some areas were hit so hard it's hard to even look at. Don has seen some major devastation, especially as he drove to Tennessee for boards right after the storms. We still had church the following Sunday. It was held outside for an hour because there was no power. We even had a little girl get baptized because her whole family was in town. There were no lights and the water was freezing, but it was really neat to see!





Corinne taking a break from some hard service!

Even the kids helped clean-up debris.
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Happy Anniversary!


Last month Don and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary! I love him more each year and I am so grateful for the husband he is to me and the father he is to Corinne. He is the most wonderful man in the world and I'm trying to deserve him! I love you so much babe.

2003
2004
2005- Wedding Day







2006

2007
2008
2009
2010
2011-( Sadly this has been the only picture we've taken together this year...probably because I am hugely pregnant!)

Sunday, May 01, 2011

Corinne's real birthday

"I'm two today!"

To start the day off right, we went to the doughnut shop for breakfast.

Yes, we really are so cheap we bring our own milk to the doughnut store.


Corinne loves anything with sprinkles or pink frosting!
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