Spring Storms

I know that I have fallen off the blog world lately, but our life has definitely been pretty crazy!  Being a mom, being a wife, and working unfortunately take up most of the time during the day, so not too much time to sit and write everything down.  I promise I will try to be better!  Taylor is growing up so fast and I just want to hold onto this moment forever when he is so little, but Casey always tells me, he has to grow up!

Now, to the point of this post!  Spring has finally arrived in Minnesota and with this season comes storms!  Casey and I have been through some hail storms before, but nothing like this!  We were sitting on the couch, and Taylor was sleeping upstairs when we started hearing “thumps.”  Casey asked, “Is Taylor waking up?”  It sounded weird, so we sat still for awhile and then I looked outside!  It was hailing!!  Not the tiny marble size hail either. Golf ball size!

We both jumped off the couch and ran to get our cars in the garage! We turned on the TV, and they said that we were under a tornado warning.  All of the neighbors were outside, just looking around to see if we could see anything.  Then, we decided to go inside for a bit, the weather was just getting a bit to weird.  The sky’s were green and it started raining and hailing.  When we were inside the tornado sirens went off, and that’s when Taylor woke up.  He knew something was going on!  Casey and I looked outside and the wind shifted.  Then, it was over.  As fast as al this crazy weather began, it just ended.  We saw our neighbor who has 911 dispatch on her phone running down the street, so we all went outside, curious of course to find out what she knew.  Well, This is what we saw…

That house is at the end of the block.  It is amazing what a tornado can do.  It was a 2 story house very similar to ours, and it just took the top of the garage clean off!  News reports state that the tornado touched down for 3 miles, they can see the tracks from the air.  Only 1 other house was damaged, and it was just their fence.  No one was injured thankfully, but a little too close for comfort if you ask me!  Give me a hurricane any day of the week! 

I hope that everyone else is enjoying their spring, I know we are going outside when there aren’t tornado’s!  We are excited for the beach and can’t wait to meet all the new babies, well probably only 1 by then, but to see everyone will be great.  I promise later tonight I will post about Taylor’s first encounter with solid foods. 

Until next time…