My Brother is really cool!

So my brother, Travis just had a write up about him in the paper. Check it!

Travis

SURPRISE!

Eric threw me a surprise birthday party on Sunday. I was so surprised. It was so great! We had some of my favorite foods! We had a pinjata! We had lots of balloons! I loved it. Thanks to all who helped and came!

My Birthday Weekend

Wow...what a weekend! I don't know where to begin...Ok lunch on Friday. Mandy took me to this really great Mexican place. They came out and put a sombrero on my head and sang to me. But then they did the strangest thing....they smashed whip cream in my face!!!! I am not joking!

It was pretty hard to top that...but we then went to the Firehouse pottery and painted some mugs! It was way fun. Mandy made me feel like a million bucks!Friday night was fun with our Young adult group. They all made food that I like. Yum! Yum!

Saturday I had my first nutrition class. I really liked it. Then we went to rent a car for the weekend! I am 25 so I can!!!! We have a 2008 Black Jetta. I love it! Our first trip in the rental was to pick up Ella!

She is 7 weeks old and very fat! She kinda looks like a bear cub...Eric says she looks like an Ewok!

More pictures to come of her! Thanks to all who made my birthday great!

Tornadoes & Rice

Monday night I was driving home from the church when I noticed the sky was a ere. So I turned on the radio and sure enough....tornadoes where on their way to Springfield. As soon as I pulled into our driveway the tornado sirens sounded. I was pretty calm. Since we have lived here I have not had to go to our basement. Our friends Stephen and Julie called to see if they could come over since they don't have a basement. When they got there we made an area in our basement with chairs, blankets, games, candles, flashlights and the weather radio. Eric made up a big batch of Chinese food as we sat and listened to storm after storm. At one point we went up stairs to find baseball size hail in our yard!

Around 11 I went to bed, Julie and Stephen went home and Eric went to work. I slept with my window cracked so I could hear sirens if they went off again. Sure enough around 2:30 they did. I turned on the radio and there was a funnel spotted very close by to the house so I got down stairs as fast as I could. This is when I got a bit scared. I was alone and the storm was close. But I made it! 45 minutes later I went back to bed.

Because of the crazy night I never put away the Chinese food. So when I got home from work the next day I started to clean up. We had a bowl of rice that I need to dump....as so I dumped down the garbage disposal. I stared up the dish washer and then began to make dinner. That's when I heard it....water gushing out of my dishwasher!

I didn't know you are not suppose to put rice down the drain! Apparently rice expands and clogs pipes!