Things Overheard at Lily's baseball games

 Opposing team's coach when Lily is up to bat...

"Eyes open, eyes open guys, we've got a hitter up to bat, we've got a hitter up to bat"

 "Her dad must practice with her all the time."

"She's better than the boys!"

The Storm

As the three of you who read this blog 

and don't live with us

or live in the town to the east of us 

already know, 

we had a tornado last week.

 But, what you southerners may not know 

is that the kids, Roger and I actually experienced

3 major storms in 3 different states

all in the same day!

 It started with a major rainstorm at Stormy Lake 

and stayed with us as we drove

to pick up Lily at Covenant Point

 Our next big storm hit us as we entered Milwaukee later that afternoon.

 And then of course ended with a tornado 

touching down a third of a mile from our house later that night.

There were of course many tree branches to pick up the next morning, but this was all the damage we had from the tornado.  Greg has already patched the roof himself. We were certainly blessed and protected that night as the kids and I tried to make our way home from Church right after the storm and had to turn around on so many streets that were impassable, but finally made it home. I tried to get a picture of the piles of branches left over from the storm that cover the side of our road, but it just sort of looks like we have big bushes all down the road!  But, in real life it's an amazing amount of downed trees and branches.

p.s. I was going to offer bonus points to those who could name the three states we were in, but then realized that all readers of this blog would probably already know!  The only person who would deserve the bonus points would be Lauren, because if you can name the three states, you clearly did well in your Geography class!

Sunny Sunday

This past Sunday we finally had a warm day with sunshine

so, we took advantage of it and spent the afternoon outside!

We played ball, made faces at the camera, Greg taught Lily a new sport that she is of course unnaturally already good at, checked out Daddy's hat, made more faces at the camera, and learned that after 36 years of laughing and squinting at the sun, eye cream as become a necessity!