Four

It's official.  My sweet, stinky boy Brayden is now 4 years old.  He's changed so much in the past year that I cannot believe it.  At three he had a vocabulary of maybe 5 words.  At four he now talks to me in sentences and can tell me what something is.  He has been going to school two days a week all during the normal school year and is currently on summer break.  He will have one more year of pre-k before, gasp, he starts kindergarten.

Where did my little 7lb 6oz little boy go?  He's now 40+ pounds of love and goofiness.  He now makes faces and is just all boy.  He loves to fish and shoot his "pow pow" and terrorize his sister.

We celebrated his 4th birthday by taking him and Aslynn to see their very first movie!  We took them to see Kung Fu Panda 2 and they LOVED it!  They did wonderfully throughout the entire movie and Aslynn even managed to keep the seat down with her petite self!  After the movie we took him to his favorite restaurant, Big Ed's Pizza!  That boy, I swear he lives and breathes pizza.  He would be happy if he could eat it EVERYDAY.

Happy 4th Birthday Sweet Brayden!

You'll always be my stinky boy :)

Easter 2011

We all know my love of nail polish :)

So this means that I follow a TON of nail blogs!  We'll, one of the blogs that I follow, The Polished Perfectionist, is having a 500 follower giveaway!  She's overseas in Holland so her give away includes hard to obtain polishes for us that are state side!

You have until the 18th of May to enter if you want but you should certainly check her out if you like seeing nail pretties like I do :)

Video of the Harvest tornado

This tornado is the same line that took out Phil Campbell.  It has been classified as a EF-5.

Video of the Cullman tornado

Video of the Tuscaloosa tornado

A whole new experience

A week ago today thousands of peoples lives changed, some 600,000 people over 4 states were left without power, some lost family members, friends, houses and belongings in what would now become to be known as one of the worst storms in a good while.

I live in Hazel Green, AL and all around us there were tornadoes.  Here are two images of all of the tornado paths.

Our power went out at around 5:15pm on.Wednesday, April 27th.  The main lines that TVA provides our utility company with power were all taken out.  While we were perfectly fine, others around us were going through so much.  Just in the neighboring town of Harvest, lives were lost, homes destroyed, ect.  My mother in law grew up in Harvest as well as her sisters.

A family friend, Bridget, lost her family home in Phil Campbell where most of the town is gone.  Through a group on Facebook, she was able to recover pages of her year book, her last senior picture and a picture of her when she graduated college.  The pictures were found all the way in Tennessee.

I'm thankful every day that my family, all of my family, is safe and that I have a place still to call home.  Our house gained power back sometime around noon yesterday, May 3rd.

Please keep everyone that has been effected by all of these storms in your prayers.  Some people still don't have power and it could be weeks before they see power.