Jackson at 18 months

Here are a couple of pictures of Jackson playing outside with his sidewalk chalk. He turned 18 months on the 23rd of April. We went to the doctor yesterday for a check-up and shots. He is 35 inches tall, weighs 24 lbs, and is doing great. The best part is we are through with shots until he is 4!

Tornado April 10th in Murfreesboro

Friday April 10th is probably a day I will never forget. Jackson and I had run a couple of errands and then headed home to start cooking for our events in the weekend. I knew we had a chance for severe storms and a line was moving across Middle Tennessee so I had the news on. I heard on the TV that Rutherford County-Murfreesboro was under a tornado warning and so I looked outside. Sure enough, there it was. The "storm chaser" in me began to video it with my camera phone, but then it looked like it was heading right for us, so I quickly shut it off and began making preperations for us to take cover. We were spared. Close to us there was some roof damage, downed trees, and a second story was damaged but then about a mile away is where the devestation began. I think in the paper today they listed that 519 structures were damaged and 59 homes were destroyed. They are calling it an F3 tornado that began by our house and took a 10 mile stretch across town. Two people died-a mother and her 9 week old baby. The father is still in the hospital in critical condition. It has been amazing to see this community work together and especially all of the firefighters, police, search and rescue, ect. We were without power in our neighborhood for only 9 hours! I think that is pretty amazing considering the damage that is here. Others had theirs restored Saturday. Jody was in Louisville, KY at a funeral. He was shaken up because he wasn't here, although there isn't really anything he could have done. Please pray for our community as we deal with this.

Below is a link to a video on YouTube showing pictures from the damage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_vboJmpx6w&feature=player_embedded

More Easter pictures

I might add that the chocolate face is Jackson induldging in Misssissippi Mud for the first time.....

Easter 2009

Jackson ended up hunting Easter eggs twice this year. Some friends of ours had a bunch of us over Saturday and then Sunday after lunch he was able to "hunt" again. Here are some pictures from both places.