Galveston

Tim and I went to Galveston on Thursday September 4th just a week before Hurricane Ike came and took away the beach. The beach was so nice and day was beautiful, it was was such a blessing for us to go and visit it with our son. Galveston is a special place to us because this is the place where Tim proposed to me and then were we spent our wedding night. We wanted to share this with our son and were very happy that we got to. Here are a few pictures of our day out.

Hurricane Ike

Well as all of you may know our family went through our first hurricane. I can say that we were very happy to have family so close who took the news casters serious. We lost power Saturday morning around 3 a.m. and the power was returned to us on Tuesday night. We were very blessed that God gave us such great weather after the hurricane. I can say that Sunday night I got cold with just having the windows open. We were also blessed to know we had water that we could cook with and friendly neighbors who shared their generators with those who didn't have one. Tim and I drove around Tomball Saturday afternoon to see how everything looked and check on some people in our church who lived out here. There was more damage then I expected to see. It's crazy to see trees uprooted that had been growing for many years. On Sunday we didn't have church because there was no power. Later that day our family (including Josiah) made our way back to our apartment. If you're thinking it wasn't a good idea for us to take Josiah with us we thought about that but with me breast feeding him we knew if we got stuck we would still be able to feed him. We made it out of Tomball fine and as we were leaving we were looking at some cars stuck on the other side of the street. Then thinking about it we realized that the main street to get back into Tomball was flooded. At that point there was no turning around and we would have to find another way back. We made it to our apartment and found out that we didn't have power but we did have water. We got some more clothes, took a shower and were off again. We took pictures of the neighborhood next to our apartment where most of the fences were down. We went to the church so Tim could get some work and check out what the damage looked like. Mostly outside with a few leeks on the inside. One of our portables had a tree fall on it, our garden shack which held the riding lawn mower roof blew off, the daycare's playground had trees and branches everywhere over the equipment and last we had lots of trees in the back of the church that looks like a war zone. After taking pictures we started to make our way back to Tomball. It was crazy to see all the cars out including us. Most street lights were out so if you got stuck going the way of most traffic it would be a slow process. We drove by a Wal-mart that had about 100 people sitting outside waiting in line to go get food and then we saw a Kroger that had about 40 people in line. The sign by the door said only 30 people in at one time and we don't have Ice, bread or batteries. We made one more stop before going home and that was to check on a family who also lived in Tomball. We had not been able to get a hold of them by phone. When we got to the house we didn't see anyone and found out later that they went to there families house. We finally made it home and the crazy thing was a roundtrip that should have only taken a hour to 1 1/2 hours ended up taking 4 hours. Today we are getting back to somewhat normal. Tim and I got to sleep in a bed last night compared to the air mattress we have been sleeping on since Friday. Josiah has been doing good for everything that has been going on but his schedule is off. That's due to the change that we went through and more people for him to be held by. He's starting to make more noise and smile. You will see pictures from Hurricane Ike and then some of Josiah. I will also put some pictures of Josiah at bath time too. He loves taking baths with Tim and its fun to watch them bond. Its time for me to say goodbye and hopefully we will write again soon.