WE FELT IT!!!

For those of you havent heard, there was an earthquake here early this morning at 4:37 am, the center in Bellmont IL or somewhere. We woke up to the house trembling, and it was sooooo scary!! I was freaking out and Troy just said, "Its just a tremor, we had them in Japan all the time". sis ran into our bed, but the boys slept through it (big suprise). The girls felt it, but stayed in their room and didnt come in to see us. I was totally freaked out. It made the windows shake, well, the whole house, but the windows clanked, the tv and computer and everything was banging. I was waiting for the house to collapse! It didnt though! It only lasted a few seconds, maybe 20 or so, but it felt a long time. Then it was over, but still trembled a little for a while. Then we had to try to go back to sleep for one hour. It didnt happen very good! So it was kind of exciting and scary at the same time. I heard that it was felt up to Chicago, and Iowa and Indiana. I havent seen it on the news yet. I heard there were no fatalities, but a little damage in the center area. Some bridges are under question this morning in St. Louis, but I dont think anything major. Anyway..just wanted to pass on this exciting new this morning!

This was from the fox new st louis this morning

"A 5.2 earthquake centered in southern Illinois rocked people awake throughout the Midwest this morning.
The earthquake surprised residents unaccustomed to such a large Midwest temblor.
It happened just before 4:37 a.m. and was centered near West Salem.

The quake was clearly felt in Chicago, which is about 230 miles away. And residents in Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky also reported feeling it."

Pinewood Derby 2008

Well, last night was the boys pinewood derby. They were so cute and did a great job! They were great sports, as their dad let them make their cars all by themselves. As hard as it was on him, he let them paint, glue, sand and it all. They did a great job! They didnt win the fastest cars, but they did a good job, and they had done it all by theirselves. We are so proud of them! Great job! Below is the slide show of it.

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My brave husband

Well, yesterday Troy went and rented a truck that had a lift so he could get up to our tall chimney to put a cap on it. It was just open to the house below, no chimney cap on it, and water poured into the house everytime it rained..which is ALOT! So..it was nice enough to get up there and close it up with some sheet metal and silicone to seal it up. Sis was loving the "Ride", as Troy took her ALL the way up with him! It was very brave of me to let her go..what a girl! Thank goodness no injuries...only a small scratch on Troy's cheek from the flying squirrel that came out of the roof and scratched troy, and "flew" all the way to the ground and ran off. This was actually on the other side of the house on the other chimney..it was hilarious!!! Wish we had the camera to send to funnies home videos.

Happy Easter

Well, once again...it was too cold this year to have our "outside" Egg hunt. So...we had our hunt inside..weeee. The kids still had fun..and it makes us happy to see our "big" girls still participating in the fun. Saturday we had a very cold, but sunny day..so we just hid the eggs and had a blast. They then got their Easter Baskets from the Easter Bunny. Yum!! We got to end the Easter weekend on Sunday with Troy speaking in sacrament meeting on the Atonement. What a treat it was, even if the other speakers only left him 30 seconds to speak:) What a nice weekend we got to enjoy as a family.

Latest Construction

Sorry its been so long....Well, here we are on our next project of the"money pit", aka..our home. We decided to remove the french doors in the dining room, since you could sit down to dinner and look out the glass doors to...all of our junk! So, we took them our and walled in the hole. Here are some pics of the project. We still havent finished it completely, and will put up the final pic when we do...Great job Troy..you are so good at fixing our home up!