RUN FOR COVER!

so this weekend Nanny Emily was so nice to work a Sat afternoon so Darren and I could go to the home and garden show. For those of you who don't know this is an arena filled with different companies (from landscaping to maid service to demonstrations on the best fish lures and the best cooking pots to cook in.)
Darren and I went for one reason only- to find SHELTER. That is a tornado shelter. Darren promised me that we would get one before the official tornado season started.
{a little history --I'M TERRIFIED OF TORNADO'S and have been since I can remember...i blame the stupid movie wizard of oz}
and if you haven't noticed we are in TORNADO ALLY!

So at the beginning of the day I was fine talking with several "Experts" on what would be the best shelter. We originally thought we wanted to safe room like this

We would have the perfect spot in the garage. It would be super easy to get 2babies and 2dogs in close the door and wham bam safe!
Well from all the info we have gotten from several vendors it may not be enough to survive uninjured. These safe rooms are great for tornado force winds, but not really from flying debris. By hour 3 of being at this home and garden show, My head was spinning and I was starting to feel really anxious and scared. The last vendor we talked to pretty much did me in. While he was giving his demonstration on how his shelter was better than the rest a video was on behind him. (posted at the end)
This guy mentioned he lived about 5miles from us and in the 8yrs he has had his tornado shelter he only had to actually use it 5 times.AHHHHH!! So this was just too much for me to handle.
I started crying and I couldn't control myself.. all I was hearing was if you don't buy this shelter you will die.
Now he didn't say this, but that is all I was hearing. Poor Darren was trying to calm me down, and after a few min.....we bought his tornado shelter. (I guess he was a good salesman)

So this is what we bought and will hopefully be installed in the next couple of weeks. It will be in our garage and hopefully WE NEVER HAVE TO USE IT!

looks small but we bought the 10+person---Just in case I had anyone else over!

if your interested it shows how our new shelter works
this isnt the whole video--if you cant hear it you need to go to the bottom of the blog and pause the blogg music.


Pray that we have a very silent non active tornado season!....If I never use it..that is just fine with me. Just having it will let me sleep a little bit better at night!



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missing texas

As much as I am really enjoying it here in Oklahoma....(really I do like it here)
I am missing Texas.
This week we had a pretty bad winter storm.
(I know this probably dosent look like a BAD winter storm, but for this Texas gal it is)

here are some shots out of upstairs balcony

I had to FORCE the dogs outside---poor tilda trying to run in as fast as she could!

Since we are stuck inside we decided to put on our Texas gear and play cowboys and indians. (this meant I chased them around the house until they wore themselves silly)
A shout out to Christy--thanks again for the Tshirts---we miss yall!
Silly dylan

Silly Sophie

growing like weeds-double trouble

double trouble---TRIPLE trouble

I think it might hit in the uppers 30's this week!!! BRRR!

live this week--

So I haven't forgotten to blog, just normal crazy things happening around here.

MEASLES--
cant a family get a break?? 3days after Sophie got her measles, mumps and rubella shots, she got the measles. Luckily Dylan shows no sign of them. Doctor said it could take about 2weeks before the rash clears up and since its viral their is nothing we can do about them! AHHH! Poor Sophie

WORK WORK WORK
I worked 3shifts this week (all in a row, THATS TUFF)...thank god orientation is over. My last couple of patients have been drug overdoses! whats up with that? CONTROL yourself people!!!

FREEZING TEMPS
so we actually got our first snow of the year, didn't last too long but I snapped some pics of it. I was gonna take the kiddos out but since it was 11degrees outside and felt like -2 I opted to stay inside.  We decided to dress up in our Texas gear (christy's shirts she gave us) and pretend we were in warm Houston! Tilda and Tator didnt want to go outside, they are missing Texas too.

BROKEN PIPE!
So what comes with freezing temps? of course broken water pipes. luckily for us it was just our sprinkler system. It flooded our yard and made a huge mud pit in our neighbors drive. (all of this while Darren and I were at work) Luckily we have great neighbors who ran over and shut off the water. By the time we had a chance to go clean the mud pit it had pretty much frozen solid to the driveway. Poor Darren spend a good 2 1/2hr sweeping, cleaning, and chipping away at this frozen mud. I guess just add this to our expense list.

Broken window
Speaking of expense list- our broken window is STILL broken. I called the window company and they "forgot" about our order? AHHHHH! So we will have to live with the wood window for at least a couple more days!

COMPUTER CRASH
I tried to upload some pictures this week from our main computer, and I got a crazy message, turns out our computer died. Thank god for computer backup systems, or we would have lost everything! Now just waiting on PaPaw to come install a new hard drive. I tried to upload pictures from my cannon camera to our laptop, but it doesn't seem to want to work, so I will bug Darren about it tonight so I can get some pictures up.

Wow sounds like NEGATIVITY CITY..... We actually did have a good week this week despite all the chaos. I will try to post pics tonight! hope everyone elses week is doing ok!!!



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freezing poop!

So the forecast shows that we should have snow on Monday. Since the kiddos were being grumpy inside I decided to have them be grumpy outside before the weather got too blistering cold.

Kids don't really like putting their winter gear on, but they sure are cute. Thanks to Auntie Kelly and Uncle Ady for the nice Christmas present!

Outside fun!

Partners in crime

Trouble!

sophie loving her bench

sophie found another golf ball (yes crazy golfers in the freezing cold)

Dylan found what Tator did...as dylan said "UHH OOOO"

Just glad they didn't step in it. Hoping everyone has a good weekend, we will be here bracing for the snow!




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flying balls

I have been working a lot lately. I have been working 3shifts per week trying to get off of orientation. Luckily starting in two weeks I'm officially off orientation at work and start my "part/time" status (2shifts).

I have been trying to spend some good quality time with the kiddos. We had a super fun day today playing and just being plain silly.

I tried to get some cute shots of the kids, but they think the camera is a play toy, so it is getting harder and harder.
Lil Sophie exploring the camera

no...not the lens!

Dylan playing with one of my Christmas gifts (i guess when you become a mom you get things like carpet cleaners as gifts)

one of the kiddos fave Christmas presents from Santa- BALL PIT!

Such goof balls!!

I love that I have such sweet kiddos, they make me giggle everyday. who knows what tomorrow might bring!



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Officially an OKIE

I'm officially an OKIE
so Darren and I have been putting off going to the DMV to get our Oklahoma drivers licences. I just hate that place, its smells, you have to wait forever, there are really scary dodgy people and on top of that I can never take a decent drivers licence photo.
Darren drug me down and it was just as bad as I thought, the smell, the people, and of course the wait. They have a number system we were 264 and 265, they were on 181...that was our cue to jump in the car have a drive around, and go to lunch to pass the time. We came back 2 1/2hrs later and we were still about 20people behind. another 1hr later we were finally called, they go through the whole list of questions...height, weight, eye color and of course a vision test. The miserable lady says smile for the camera and before you can hardly look at the camera she has taken the picture. They confiscated my old drivers license and actually handed me my new one. (cool since you have to wait for them to be mailed in Texas)
Old DL--

Oklahoma DL

So the picture wasn't great but it wasn't horrible, its probably not the lady's fault that my picture looks like I have a huge fat head (since I probably do), but as I was inspecting my new DL, I noticed something wrong...they marked my eye color as blue , whatever lady must be dyslexic.. brown, blue whatever! But I noticed one thing more, my weight was posted right in the middle of my DL.
WHAT THE HECK!! I SO WOULD HAVE LIED!!!! why is this information important anyway?? So I guess when I go to the liquor store and get carded they will not only know my age but my weight!! I'm so thinking of accidentally "loosing" my licence so I can go get an new one that says I weigh 115 i mean 102. This might actually be worth waiting in a stinky long line again!! My luck the new one would have a good weight and my picture would have my eyes crossed with baby snot in my hair. I guess you can never win!!

I will always be a TEXAN!!                                    (even though I was born in colorado)           



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we are alive....sort of

Sorry blogging came to a halt after the bout of the stomach bug...but I will try to catch up!! SO----

Happy New Year everyone!


I remember when the thought of doing nothing on New Years Eve was completely foreign to me. December 31st was one night of the year you absolutely could not stay home!

Actually Darren and I had our 1st date on new years eve. Ohhh the good old days, getting dressed up in a fun party dress, drinking my cares away, and dancing til way past midnight.

(Fun before the kiddos)


Darren and I didnt even make it to midnight---pretty sad!

This year instead of getting sick because I had a little too much to drink, I was sick because I have two little germ breeders living in the house.... named Dylan and Sophie.

I may still have dreams of going to a swanky party wearing a little black dress, and dancing till late… but right now, I’m happy at home with my cutie germ breeders...even if they make me sick.

So its already the 4th of Jan and I have pretty much broken all of my new year resolutions. SO POO POO on new years resolutions!




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