Honu House

We all knew it was coming...the weather folks have been talking about it for a while now, so it was no surprise when I woke up this morning to a beautiful blanket of white! Here are a couple photos i took on my way to work!

Wow, I can't believe it's already nearing the end of July...Surpirsingly we have been busy this summer. Here are some photos to go along with the random things we've done so far! We attempted to attend a College World Series game, but of course with the way our summer has been going we got rained on. Good thing I remembered our Zoo pass. So we were able to sneak into some of the inside exhibits and enjoy the dry indoors - and see some wonderful animals and insects. Here we went into the new Butterfly Pavillion. They really are pretty! Giggles and Bean came to visit Grammy one weekend and fortunately I didn't have to work and didn't have anything else planned so I got to play with the girls also. First we went to the Children's Museum - Clifford was in for a visit too. The girls had a lot of fun playing around "upstairs". After playing with Clifford we went back to my house and had a little fun in the "shade" and water...it was so ...

Thought we'd share some pictures of our house burried in snow!!! This is what we had at 9:00pm Christmas Eve when we got home from the Di Mauro's! Here is what we saw when we woke up Christmas morning around 7:30am MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! We are headed back out to shovel some more!

My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the Boy Scouts & their families that were involved in last night's tornado. Below is a link to a story about the scouts...Such sad news and again so close to home, though this one was a bit further than the tornadoes on Sunday. http://www.ketv.com/news/16579276/detail.html God Bless each and every one of you I just received this picture...this says it all...Amazing more weren't killed with this storm. Okay, I would like to stand corrected, this photo is not the one from Wednesday night with the boy scouts, however it is a real photo from a different tornado earlier in the week. Please follow the link below to see the story about the photo... http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/iowatornado.asp

Well, it's official...an EF2 tornado hit the Millard area of Omaha (this is the area where Lou & I live). I've included some links to stories about the storm below. But here is the story as Lou & I experienced it... Around 2:00 / 2:15 a.m. Sunday June 8th, we heard some really strong winds and rain outside. I felt Lou get out of bed and saw a glow coming from one of our spare rooms, knowing he was watching TV, I got out of bed and looked out the window - couldn't really see our neighbors house due to the rain coming down parallel to the ground due to the strength of the wind. I then went in to the spare room to sit with Lou and watch the news/weather. While watching, they comment that around 156th & Giles had a tornado touch down. Now for those of you who don't know Omaha very well, this is just about 4 blocks away from our house. The sirens still hadn't gone off and they are saying there is a tornado?!?! Shortly there after, about 2:30ish, the sirens go...