Ice Storm 2009

Well sorry I have not wrote on this in so long seems like we can't get caught up. I will try to include some ice storm pictures. We are still cleaning up to this day the yard and last night we worked on the trees that had went down in the creek so we can get the cows up to the house to vaccinate them. During the ice storm Jon worked a lot he would get home about midnight or 1 in the morning then sleep sleep 3 hrs and get back up at 4 to be at work by 6 in the morning. When the storm first hit the roads were so tore up he could not get down the main road we both take to work so he would have to drive all the way to Siloam and come back roads to our house and he still had to cut his way in. The First Day the kids and I stayed home, but by the 2nd day we decided to stay with Nana and Papa and then my Grandparents stayed too. You could not get down our road with my car and Jon took his truck with him, so the kids and I called Papa to come get us. Papa and Nate helped Bob and I keep up with all the feeding and watering and it did get old. Papa and Nana got power first then we did a few days after that. I was so mad about it taking so long but there were some things that the kids and I did that was good and brought us closer together. The first night we cooked hot dogs in the wood stove so we pretended to camp out. We also read bible stories by candle light and we did lots of praying to help us and to keep the electrical crews safe. Now that has made us realize that we did not really have the family time we need with God. Our family is not all the way there but we are so much better than we were. Jon and I and the kids all realized how blessed we are we have a great family and neighbors. Jon's Dad came and cut up some of the limbs so I could get to my front door and Dad helped haul hay and haul water to Bob's show calves and Nate well he is just part family too he helped Bob and I feed every day. Papa also ran to MO to buy feed while I took Bob's show steer to the vet and got some feed in Siloam and Bob had a ball game that day too. So like I said I don't know what we would do if we did not have such a close family and neighbors we are so blessed. Sorry about the pictures I have tons more but I can't get these to move around like they should.