Jed's new paint job

The weekend before Ike we decided to give Mr. Jed a new paint job in his room. I asked him if he'd like to have his room painted and he said yes. When I asked him what color he'd like he said red and blue stripes. Stripes! The boy got what he wanted, almost. I decided to add in the white so it's wouldn't be so dark. He decided he wanted one wall solid after it took me a whole day to tape 3 walls. I had gotten three walls taped and he came in and said, 'It looks good, but I wanted the stripes to go the other way.' Of course this mom said, sorry charlie, the stripes are already there. Who knew he was so opinionated.

Pool Side View

We survived Ike! We now have a pool side view, at least until we get the fence repaired but we came out of the event with very minor damages. Thankfully all our very big trees stayed put and all the branches the fell missed the house.

We were without power for about 36 hours. Scott brought home a generator and we ran the refrigerator and the TV (grandpa would be proud). We all have our priorities, of course food and tv win! We did loose power again last night for about an hour and a half. We finally got our internet service back, but we still have no phone. Internet is very tempermental, it comes and goes. Here's a few pictures for your viewing enjoyment. :) Thanks for the prayers!

Yikes, here comes Ike!

Well, it looks like Ike is heading straight for us. We won't have evacuations because we are far enough inland the surges won't affect us. We are preparing to batten down the hatches. We've filled up with gas and have cases of water, canned goods and ramen noodles. I'm preparing for 3 days without power, Scott is thinking about three weeks. I hope I'm right this time. :) We are charging our cell phones and planning to stay. Love you all. Pray that Ike just disappears!
Bobbi