And Now It is August...

Summer has really flown by and in a little over 3 weeks, school begins, YAY!!!!! We've done some landscaping around here this Spring. I was surprised how well the Petunia's did, considering how much rain we had in May and June. They didn't grow for a while then in July they really blossomed. Had I known how big they were going to get, I would have planted them between the Boxwood's. I think I may plant some Mum's inbetween the Boxwoods for this Fall.



This is a rainbow I caught after some of the many rains we had this Summer.

July Already!

Summer is flying by! Now that softball and T-ball are over, it is time to get some projects done around here. We went down to ATL to see DH's sister over July 4th and had a fantastic time. The only exciting thing we did was go to the Braves Game. It was just nice to get away and relax. Here are some highlights from the Braves Game. Chick-fil-a had a big cow in the upper level in the outfield as their advertisement. The Coca-Cola bottle was really cool. Up close it is decorated with bases, baseball bats, baseball jersey's, gloves, catcher's gear, etc. Then when the Braves hit a Home Run, they shot fireworks out of it. Pretty Cool!

Over by where the above items are located is a kids area. They had an area where the kiddos could run before, during and after the game. We took the girls over there to blow off some steam before the game started. You started at home plate and ran to first base. They did this several times.

In the same area they had these really cool chairs that looked like giant Coke bottles. The one thing I love about Atlanta, there is a never ending supply of Coke products!

After the game there was about 15-20 minutes while they were getting ready for the fireworks show. They were playing some really cool music and Miss A and a girl in the row in front of her were dancing to the music. We got to see ourselves on the Jumbo Screen out in center field.

They had a really good Fireworks show after the game. It was all synchronized to the music they played in the stadium. Fabulous show!

Crazy Weather.........

lately. The Midwest has been battered with lots of rain and tornadoes and it seems that last night it was our turn. After my oldest's friends left yesterday afternoon, something told me to get all of my photos (about 500 of them) saved to disks. Since they are high resolution, it too about 4 hours to do that. About 7:30 I looked at weather.com and it had a tornado warning for our area...WHAT????? I read the info and a funnel cloud was sighted in a town about 1/2 hour away and the storms were racing at 55-60 mph. So I had everyone get their shoes and socks on and get stuff to take to the basement. About 20 minutes later it got really freaky looking...
Then we looked to the SW towards town and a bunch of dirt started to swirl upwards. We couldn't see a funnel, but there was definitely some rotation going on there...
And about 20 minutes after that the storms had blown through. There are quite a few trees down in the area and north and east of us there were a few tornadoes spotted. The kiddos playset in the back yard, which has been there for 6 years through many nasty storms, was knocked over and some how missed hitting the deck.

Below are some random pics I took a few days ago of a storm that went north of us. The lightning was fantastic!