Friends

Evan and I have had a lot of fun this summer going to parks on Fridays with my friend Krystal and her boy and girl twins. Our kids are about the same age and they have a lot of fun together. Evan gets so excited when he sees them and even knows Jakob's name even though he plays more with Joslyn. Jakob is just easier to say I guess.

           We love the swings and as for slides the bigger the better.

I was lucky enough to get my camera out just in time to take this picture of Evan holding hands with Joslyn. 20 seconds later and I would have missed it. They are so cute together.

Earthquakes and Hurricanes

It has been a very interesting month here in Virginia weather wise. On August 23, 2011, at 1:51 pm I woke up to my bed shaking and the doors rattling. It was so weird I didn't think Virginia had earthquakes, but not only was it an earthquake it was a fairly decent size one at a magnitude of 5.8. Had it lasted any longer it could have done some serious damage. We only had a few pictures go crooked, but some of the older buildings in our area didn't fair so well.

the Washington monument has a huge crack in it and is closed indefinitely.  These 100+ year old structures just aren't built to stand up to earthquakes. 
Just as we were recovering from our earthquake less than a week later Hurricane Irene struck with flooding, power outages and fallen trees everywhere. Once again we were left unscathed with just a few fallen branches to clean up, but we cant help wondering whats next?