So I don't forget....

These are just a few cute things Ally is doing and saying that I wanted to journal so that I won't forget how cute she is at this age.

1. Yesterday, while kicking around the soccer ball in the backyard with the whole fam, Travis was trying to explain to the kids that you can't use your hands to pick up the ball when playing soccer. So anytime the kids would try to pick the ball up, he would say "no hands Ally." She took that literally and everytime the ball came to her, she would bend over with closed fist and pick the ball up with her wrists. Travis and I were cracking up. It was sooo cute!

2. We drink a lot of capri sun at our house and Ally likes to refer to them as "pretty sun." It would be her to think of them as pretty since she loves to be pretty all the time.

3. She carries around her babies and has named them baby Ava, after my niece and baby Gracie after our friends soon to be baby girl. It is so funny how she is already so motherly. Is it just in them from when they are born or what.

4. While I'm on the computer at home yesterday, she walks in and says, "mommy I found a bug!" and hands me a dead spider and I scream and scare her half to death. She wasn't afraid until I made her.

I know I will want to remember these things when she is all grown up. It is funny how you forget if you don't write them down.

Oh where oh where did our trampoline go?

Trampoline was right by swingset!

Now, trampoline is down on the left by some of
the fallen limbs.

Patio set almost flew into house!

Fence blown over and tree almost fell!

The storm last Friday went right through our neighborhood. I was inside with a little music playing while the kids were asleep on my bed. I was unloading some dishes when I look out our back window to see our patio furniture tip to one side then to the other and crash right before my eyes. At that very moment, my friend Leslie who was coming to visit me, arrived at our front door. I hear a scream at my door and she was about to get blown away. She rushes in to see the patio furniture and then I see our trampoline get picked up into the air and blown over our fence down the street. It was just like you would see in the movies. So scared, I then rush to get my kids and get to the closet. We waited and prayed for about 20 minutes. When it passed, I look out at the backyard to see our fence half torn down and our lone pine tree almost fallen to the ground. Lots of my neighbors swear it was a tornado. I don't know, but I do know it was the scariest thing I have ever been in and seen with my own eyes. So glad no one got hurt.