BLOWN AWAY

Well after living in Wichita Falls for 2 years I guess we can now truly believe how the high winds can effect things. I know we have been told about the high winds but you know how things just don't really sink in with you until something happens in your backyard. After our church business meeting we had to do some things in Wichita and came home to Burk around ten to find electricity out, lots of people driving around and then our trampoline gone from our back yard. We just got this about a month ago and had not gotten around to anchoring it down somehow, so I guess this is what we get for procrastinating, lol! I'm just thankful it is not any worse. Our neighbors fence doesn't appear to be in too bad of condition and hopefully nothing in their yard was destroyed. Our fence only suffered very minor scratches so to speak. Haiden was upset seeing how he had saved his money and paid for more than half of this trampoline. Guess it was a lesson to him to find things to be thankful for even when something bad happens. We told him worse things could have happened so be thankful this is all it was.

FUN SATURDAY

We had a fun Saturday! We made our minds up to stay at home and just have some good family time. A big part of us wanted to invite some people over, but just decided to dedicate all the time to our kids. My husband grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, we had fruit, and finished off the evening with ice cream with all kinds of special toppings. In between all the eating we did, we spent the rest of our time in the pool. This was Coltens first time in the pool this year and he screamed and cried at first then came to the point where he just laid his head on his float the whole time. He looked as if he would fall asleep but he never did. Breann is scared to death of the water unless she is in a baby float as well. So she had a screaming fit when we took her out of the float and got dunked under for the screaming. I don't like doing this to the kids but my husband says this is how you begin to break them of that fear, or at least make them learn to not scream and pitch a fit for being in the water. Haiden used to be like this, but we made him take swimming lessons and he overcame his fear of the water during his lessons. It was really bad at first. His teacher told him his mom was going to leave if he didn't stop acting the way he was cause he was having a horror fit! Oh, anyway, we had a wonderful Saturday as a family!