"It's soooo boring around here...

there aren't any hurricanes or anything..."

That would be a direct quote from my children who are envious of all their friends who are out of school until Thursday. Well, I'm going to steal some pictures from Carrie and show you what we missed out on...

(These are pictures from the Pearson's neighborhood about a mile from our Houston home...)

It made me sick to see these pictures as I know exactly where each of these homes is. So I've heard that power is in and out...as well as the water. No gas to be found and I'm sure that there isn't much milk, eggs, bread or any other groceries around, and probably won't be for a while.

I was so touched on Sunday at church...I had at least a half dozen people come up to me and ask me if I had heard from my friends and if everyone was okay. I even had one lady say, "I was thinking about you all night and how worried you must be about everyone...". Nice people here in Idaho!

I remember when Rita was headed towards Houston and it was all the buzz in the news, and then just like now it's been all but forgotten in the media. If you haven't been through it you don't realize that even though the storm is gone there is A LOT of clean up to be done and there is no gas or food to be had for days or even weeks because the trucks cannot get through. It lasts much longer than the 6+ hours it takes for the storm to get through.

Anyway, I hope everyone is doing okay and getting really good at strategies in Phase 10 and Uno--I know ya'll have played about a million games by now. We love you and are praying for a speedy recovery.