Unexpected

We had an exciting Sunday. So exciting that I'm just now posting about it... Tuesday night. My parents are in town and we thought we'd show them how exciting life in the big city is, so we had a tornado come to town. Ok, so we actually had nothing to do with it, but there really was one! We have church at 1pm and at about 2 pm (shortly before it was over), Aaron and I both found ourselves in the hall with crying babies while my parents were inside. Everyone was congregating by the doors and Aaron showed me something like this:

That is called golf ball sized hail my friends. And my baby was holding it. And wouldn't let it go. People kept wanting to see it and she was mad. A very short time later we saw something like this:
These two pictures were actually taken by our good friends (we don't regularly take our camera to church), but Aaron did get one on his phone. Aaron watched it touch down 3 times and I saw it happen twice. Needless to say, we missed the last few minutes of church because we were glued to the weather. Someone opened the doors and we realized the tornado sirens were blaring, but no one could hear them because the wind was so loud! Traffic stopped and everyone just stared. It was very impressive.

We drove home quickly hoping that Mady's room wasn't soaked from the rain (window open). It wasn't. But the power was out. Aaron got to open the garage door the old fashioned way. We stood in the garage and watched the hail storm end. Then Sydney and I put on our rain coats and ran outside in the rain. Look how happy she is. You wouldn't be able to say no to her either.

Daddy and Grammy came out too later but they didn't splash. Why waste a perfectly good puddle?

The tornado did a fair amount of damage. There is a large mall 1/2 mile from our house that got hit (car overturned, light posts bent over, debris everywhere, etc.) including a brand new Lowes that has been open for 1 month. The whole experience was crazy, yet slightly exciting (only because all we lost was a few leaves off our trees!) Even more weird than the tornado? The fact that Progressive contacted us within 24 hours to find out if we had any damage from the storm that they could take care of. What? Now that's progressive!

P.S. I promise to post before another week and a half are up. I am getting behind again. And I have garage sale plunder. Can't wait for Friday!