In LOVE with my new blog design!

Back in April I won a blog design on Facebook from sweet Leslie of Sweetie Baby's Custom Blog Design. This girl knows her stuff and she's super easy to work with. I am in love, love, love with my new look and hopefully sometime soon after vacation we'll update the picture in the middle. I've been a slacking blogger lately and there's no other excuse other than I've been a busy gal! The weekend wasn't much of a rest, we were with friends both nights.



Friday night we went to Ashley & Josh's house for dinner. We grilled and ate and had a good time catching up. We then headed to town to listen to John Henry & the Engines play at the Civic Center for the Rotary BBQ Cook-off. It was a fun night!


Kody worked Saturday and I caught up around the house. I cleaned a little and did some grocery shopping. After Kody got off we went clothes shopping for him. He finally got new jeans. He is a skinny mini! His waist is probably smaller than mine now! ha! Saturday night we went to dinner (our fave--El Charro) with the Skeeters and Jennifer's brother Matthew. We grew up next door to Jennifer & family (the Posegates) and Matthew and I are the same age. We played every day and I have so many great memories of time with him. Jennifer actually baby-sat me and Alex. :) It's always good to catch up with Matthew and we love Jen & Jay. We had a really good time. They came out to our house afterwards and we sat outside on the deck for about an hour before they went home to their kids. Fun night!


Sunday after church I went to work to work on some stuff for Kody. I spent a little time in the afternoon ironing and the whole time he was at work doing some welding stuff. We met at church for our Dave Ramsey FPU class and got out fairly early. Kody went to our FPU teacher's house to drop off the welding stuff and was contemplating going to wash his truck. At this point it's 7:15 and we are both oblivious to what was going on in Joplin, just about 3 hours west of us. Once I got in the car I had the radio on a Springfield (MO) station and heard about it. I panicked. Go figure, if you know me, you know I am scared of storms..big time! I called Kody and couldn't get through. Our phones still aren't working right. US Cellular (our provider) has towers down and we can text, but people can't get through to us. I really panicked because it was moving our way. I was able to get through to my parents land-line and they sent my brother to find Kody. He made it home about 8:30. Of course he was out gabbing at this guys house.


Seeing pictures like this on the news was devastating. I can't even imagine where they'll begin.
I was crying like a little baby by the time Kody got home. I was so worked up I needed a chill pill. I was already worked up about the upcoming week and the weather didn't help!

We survived fine though, no tornadoes touched down even though we spent awhile in the basement. Thank God we have one! Tonight we're in for it again, or our region. I am just praying that God will spare us ALL and leave us alone for awhile. Mother Nature has been way too moody this year. It freaks me out. So we were all sparred from the Rapture, what the heck is up with the tornado weather now?