4:51 pm ~ 
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Emma & Ava, Life (Or Something Like It), Memories, WTF?
Sorry I’ve been neglecting the blog lately. I’ve been spending all my free time working on getting the store up and running. I’m hoping that it will open tomorrow, but if not then Wednesday for sure! I’ll let you know. 
The girls turned 10 months old yesterday! I know the next two months are going to fly by and then all of a sudden they’ll be a year old. 
They aren’t baby babies anymore!
So, I about just hyper ventilated 20 minutes ago. Here in the town we live in, they have tornado warning sirens that they test weekly on completely clear sunny days. Well I’m sitting up here at my desk and all of a sudden the sirens start going off. And today has been everything but clear and sunny. It’s been dark and stormy all day and really warm. Well of course I got freaked out and went down stairs and Preston, my dad, and brother are outside on the front porch and there is this huge cloud that is starting to circle and form a funnel. I was like oooooooooooooooh my gosh I’m going to die. It seriously looked like it was about to touch down. Everyone was out on their front steps and traffic was starting to pile up under the over pass. Then a neighbor told us that a tornado had just touched down near Ikea, which is just a 2 minute drive south of our condo. You could see this huge cloud circling and getting closer and closer to the ground. Everyone thought for sure it was going to touch down. Luckily the huge thing just passed right by without touching down. The whole time sirens are going off and I’m freaking the heck out.
Coming from WA I’ve been in my share of earth quakes. I can do earth quakes. I cannot do tornados. No way, no thank you, nope.
And now it’s getting clear and the sun is shining. Texas weather is weird.
p.s. I upgraded wordpress and I may have lost a couple comments during that. Sorry if yours ended up getting lost in the upgrade.
March 31st, 2008 05:17 pm
thats scary! im from new jersey and were lucky enough to not have tornados or earthquakes, just the occasional small flooding from too much rain. i dont know how you do it! lol
March 31st, 2008 05:53 pm
so for some reason, I found the part of this entry about people standing on their front steps to watch the funnel cloud sort of hilarious. Only because that’s exactly what people in my town do in that sort of situation…go watch on the front porch. Glad you all are safe and okay!
March 31st, 2008 06:17 pm
Been there way to many times myself. We’ve had three hit my parent’s property. Luckily, the house was never damaged severely, just barns. One was last summer. Got to love living in Oklahoma and Texas. It’s been like that all day here to. We had one northeast of us last night. About 50 miles away which is plenty close for me.
March 31st, 2008 06:34 pm
I am so glad that you are your family are alright. Tornadoes are scary business.
March 31st, 2008 07:27 pm
Tomorrow is Tuesday silly! Let us know when the store opens!
March 31st, 2008 08:26 pm
LOL oops!
March 31st, 2008 08:31 pm
holy crap! I am so scared of tornados… *shudder*
March 31st, 2008 09:29 pm
its kinda funny that you were standing out on the front watching it. I would of ran back inside and hid.
March 31st, 2008 10:53 pm
When my family and I lived in Kansas, we used to drive around when the sirens went off looking for the tornados! Lol. The Military Police kindly informed us to quit being so damn crazy and get home, lol.
But Happy 10 months!
March 31st, 2008 11:36 pm
heh, yeah most cities in the dfw area test sirens the first wednesday of every month. another friend of mine texted me one VERY clear day freaking out about a tornado. i was like.. it’s testing day. hehe.
& you live -super- close to my dad & his wife & 4 kiddos! they live off tollway/lebanon, in the starwood estates. :P
March 31st, 2008 11:37 pm
oh! and that same storm hit here too. all the way in south arlington. crazy. i called my husband to take addison to his SIL’s down the street (we have a huge tree looming over our house. i’m scared it’s going to fall).
he made fun of me, because the storm was like 15 minutes. haha.
April 1st, 2008 02:47 am
So glad nothing touched down by you. I had never seen or heard a tornado til Katrina in 2005 and it scared me to death. It sounded like a train was going by the window.
Ten months already!?!? I remember you being so pregnant you were about to pop…time flies…especially when you have babies. They grew up so fast, and are so precious! I know you are so proud and you have every reason to be. Got any big plans for the one year birthday?
April 1st, 2008 03:59 am
wow that’s scary! =(
thank god i live in the middle of europe. we have no earth quakes and no tornados!
April 1st, 2008 03:01 pm
I hate tornados, too. Luckily none got close enough to my town to cause the sirens to go off. But we were under the tornado watch.
I was just clicking links and found your site one day, lol, just so you know where I came from.
Aww, your daughters are adorable!