Shirley does not have naps most days now since he doesn't go to sleep until late if he does. He does occasionally fall asleep on his own though. The first two pictures are from when he came inside from playing in the sprinkler with a couple of his friends. When I went out front to say goodbye to our friends leaving, I came back in and found him asleep. In the third picture he fell asleep while eating chips.
Rilla is so cute when she dresses up. Here are a couple of her outfits:
Rilla also loves flowers. Even the flowers that are actually weeds. She is always picking wild flowers.
Here is a bouquet of dandelions she picked.
A few weeks ago we had several really strong storms. We fared better than some areas in the south, never the less, we had quite a bit of wind and tree damage. The first big storm hit at 1 am. We awoke to a crash on our roof and we could hear hail and wind. Then the weather radio went off and declared a tornado warning. A tornado warning means that storm conditions are favorable to producing a tornado. We jumped out of bed and woke our kids and got in a hallway closet and bathtub. I did not enjoy it one bit. It was actually quite scary. We have had tornado warnings before, but I was never very scared. We also lost power right after the storm hit so it being dark didn't help. Gil got flashlights right away so we at least had some light. The kids were real troopers although didn't go right back to sleep after the tornado warning was over. After the warning ended we came out and tried to see what had made the crash against our roof. We could see that a tree had fallen. At first we thought it was one of our own (we have 15 trees in our back yard) but it turned out to be our neighbor's behind us tree. Luckily, the only damage was a bent gutter. The tree did hit one of our smaller trees and bent it over quite a bit so we have since cut that tree down. Gil got to use his chain saw for the first time to cut up the tree. I think he enjoyed that.
The next week we had several more storms. We lost power a couple of more times and had a middle of the night tornado warning but it wasn't as bad as the first storm. There were several tornadoes that did touch down here in Tennessee. One even hit the northern part of Fort Campbell. One of the night storms knocked down a tree in our neighbor's behind us to the left yard. It crashed through the 4 corners of our fences. Here is a picture of the fence taken a couple of weeks before the storms.
Here is after.
