Augh

Great - now it's going to be a hurricane. We thought it would just be a tropical storm...but it looks like it is going farther out to sea than we had previously anticipated so that will give it plenty of time to strengthen. The last hurricane to hit Jacksonville directly was Dora in 1964 – everyone kept saying we were due…guess it’s time! Please keep us in your prayers…I’m sure we’ll be fine – but it does get quite sticky and annoying without air conditioning. To keep an eye on the storm - visit the National Hurricane Center.


So my list for tonight and tomorrow:
Wash all clothes
Make sure we have full gas tanks
Check inventory for batteries and water
Get a gas tank for the grill - burgers anyone?
Tape up sliding glass door...and aparently go buy masking tape.

"WEE" HAVE PEE PEE IN THE POTTY

For the last few weeks Hayden has been letting me know he has a "stinky bum" or "pee pee" a few minutes AFTER the fact. So today he came up and said "stinky bum" and he didn't have anything in his diaper so I plopped him on the potty. I went about my business and checked in on him a few times. He was just singing and playing with his leggos...so I sat down at the computer to check a friend's blog and he comes in to the room and says "pee pee".

We went into the bathroom and lo and behold there was PEE PEE IN THE POTTY!!!

Guess it's time for me to go out and get some stickers!

This One's Coming Right Up Our Driveway

Welcome, Fay - please don't stay too long.

I guess I'd better get my portable DVD player battery charged...looks like we're in for a nice power outage! For those of you who don't know where Jacksonville is:

Thankfully it's just a Tropical Storm...so we'll probably only see a few trees fall and some power outages...but it still stinks!

Fun at the Fire Station

Today was Jace's 3rd birthday so we went and had a tour of the Jacksonville Fire Station. I think the kids had such a good time.

Not quite sure what this heavy thing is, but it sure looks cool!

Shaking the Fireman's hand...learning that they are our friends.

Can you imagine having to climb that thing???Just hanging out in the truck.
Group shot with the friendly firemen.

So sweet

Hayden's cousin, Madison, came over to play today. They play so well together, and I will get the opportunity to have her all day Tuesdays through Fridays! We're just going to have way too much fun!

Mr. Fix-it

Daddy and Uncle Daniel were working on the yard the other day and for some reason the lawn mower wasn't working, so Hayden took a stab at it:

Just doing his job.

C'mon, Mom! Can't you see I'm working here? Get that camera out of my face!

Baking Cookies

While baking cookies with a two year old uses twice the dishes, makes twice the mess and takes twice as long...it's twice as fun!

Our Recipe for Success:

1 cup of Peanut Butter

1 cup of Sugar

1 egg

Bake 350 for 12-15 minutes

Mean Face

Pretty intense, don't you think?

And more cuteness for your viewing pleasure:

It's becoming comical

Really...when is enough enough? Every time something happens to us it gets more and more comical all we can manage to do is laugh.

Early afternoon this Friday we laid down for a quick nap before I had to go to work. It was storming pretty hard, and who doesn't love falling asleep to rain falling on the roof? At one point the car alarm went off and we thought nothing of it because the thunder has caused it to do that before. Mike turned it off and back to sleep we went.

I get out to the car on my way to work and found a tree limb laying on it. Our windshield is shattered and the driver's side mirror is dangling.

Sigh...what's next?

He Got In!!!

After quite the string of bad luck we finally got some good news today! Mike has been accepted to the Police Academy!!! He starts the end of the month and is scheduled to be through at the end of January! Hooray! He plans to start out as a bailiff while he finishes his degree in criminal justice. Once he finishes that he’ll be qualified to work for a larger agency. It’s going to be a busy few months since he’ll also be working at Dominos as a delivery driver. His hours will be long and grueling but it’s only for a short amount of time and it will be so worth it in the end!

Keep us in your prayer – we’re going to need all we can get!