Mason in the Ice (just a few more!)

The ice is gone,
The trees are down,
Thank God the trash truck came around,
The trees are stripped,
It left everything ugly,
At least the electricity is keeping us snuggly!
(although it took me 2.5 seconds to write that, I think I just might win an award or something for it.)

What a Beautiful Mess

We've officially been declared a "Disaster Area." I'll let the pictures do the talking~this was my trip in to work this morning...

I bought Mason these boots tonight! (I'll admit they were in the girl's section, but they look boyish to me and there were NO boots in the boy's section.) Mason LOVES them of course.

Updates...

Great news! Little Miss Harper is doing a lot better! She's the newborn baby of Kelly, whom I blogged about here.
Thanks for your prayers~to see the cutest pics and the full update, go here.

Wayne was back at work today and I will be returning tomorrow morning. I've been captive inside the house for 3 days now, so I'm looking forward to being a part of the outside world. Mason asked me a few times today if we could go to Mimi & Grandpa's house~I think even he was ready to leave the house.
I feel almost guilty that we never lost electricity throughout the ice storm! I hope all my family & friend's are making it ok!

I guess that's all. I have some cute pics of Mason to share, but I'm gonna go watch LOST instead! (forgive me!)

Ice Ice Baby

We were iced in today. (like everyone in NWA) I was so glad to hear my workplace was closed early this morning. Thankfully, Wayne was able to work from home. So I played with Mason most of the day, took too many pictures of the ice outside, watched some tv and made this.
I'm quite upset that American Idol did not record due to the satellite not coming in. :( I'll have to try to catch it online (is it online?)
Anyway, it started out icy this morning & just got worse & worse. It sleeted & rained & snowed all day long and so many people were without electricity. We are so lucky that we had power all day (just a few flickers here & there) The main issue we're all facing is all of the trees that are down. The inch+ of ice on the branches has downed so many trees around us and all over town. Every single neighbor around us has MAJOR tree damage. We have minor damage at this point, but are holding our breath on a few of our large trees...


The pink is Ice

Ike Broke Our Tree

High winds and rain from Hurricane Ike reached us last night around midnight. We were still up, so we saw and heard how fierce the 40-50 mph winds were! I went to bed around 1 and at 1:15 I heard a big POP, followed by many bangs. One of our tall trees in the backyard lost a whole section! It was about a third of the tree--it snapped and caught the edge of the storage buiding as it fell. There is some light damage to the roof of it. A few large limbs of our Bradford Pear came down as well (I think the big tree caught them on the way down) We couldn't tell how bad it was until this morning. Wayne spent the day (with the help of our wonderful neighbor & his chainsaw & flatbed) cutting up the tree & hauling it off. Fun.
I can't believe how strong Ike still is this far up on land! I mean, we are in Arkansas, for goodness sake! I feel bad complaining about a tree when there are so many that have lost everything. God bless them...


Mason's basketball goal is in there! It's a little wonky, but will be ok.


The storage building roof

Everyone's yards looked like this today