the rain in spain...

The rain in Spain may fall gently on the plain...but not here in Texas. This is a pretty ominous looking cloud. We had a pretty severe super cell thunderstorm roll through last night.

We were under a Tornado Warning, so Val and Will took cover in our "bunker." It is our closet. They had story time and cookies.

I on the other hand was watching the storm. We had pretty strong wind and rain and intense hail. Fortunately, the hail was not as big as just a little bit west of here. In Mineral Wells, pretty much anything that was exposed got demolished by tennis to baseball size hail. The report is that all of the skylights at the Walmart were knocked out. Also, every car in the parking lot was totaled. There was also pictures of the hail from Weatherford. The hail was so thick that it looked like it had snowed.

water play...

This is fun Mommy!



Someday, I'm gonna get you with the water hose Mommy!

hot rods...

Will found my old pine-wood derby cars from back in my Cub/Boy Scouts days. They just turned up in all of the moving. I'm not sure that Will is totally appreciating the aerodynamic design that Pop and I put into these cars. Check out the air-foil that we put into the wood! Both of these cars were good designs. In fact the near one is an undefeated champion.

purple people eater, part II...

As you may remember from a previous post, Will is afraid of the vacuum cleaner. However, he is much braver around it when he has his ball-popper. He half mimicked Valerie in vacuuming the floor and half used the ball-popper as a defensive weapon against the evil purple people eater. He kept ramming the vacuum with the popper, but then he'd run away. Anyway, he is getting a little better with the vacuum.

saturday alone with daddy...

More cheese please!

Will wasn't really interested in his turkey sandwich. He took it apart and ate just the cheese. In this picture you can see him signing "please."

Now I can reach the top of the sofa!

I used to put the remote control on the top of the sofa so that it would be out of his reach. However, he is a pretty clever little boy. He pushed his firetruck over all by himself and stood on top of it.

green, white and blue...

Here is a picture of our new bedroom. This is called Koi Pond green.

Valerie decided to paint the bathroom. She also left a little bit of graffiti on the wall.

Here is Will's room. It is "Lauren's Surprise" blue. We aren't real sure that we are going to like this color.