I was on the radio

One Friday morning 2 weeks after the tornado hit I was on my way to work out and heard KLTY was in Forney at the McDonalds.  I decided to stop and see if I could say thank you to community of Foreny for all of the help and donations that were made.

I met Frank Reed and was able to tell my story live on the radio. I have to say I was a little proud of myself for not scrambling my words. It was fun!!

My first Garden

Luckily the tornado did not destroy my first garden.  I wanted to grow cucumbers for Jesse.  It was overflowing with cucumbers, cantaloupe, and squash. Next spring will be even better. 

Life goes on

Tuesday April 3rd is when the tornado hit and that next weekend was Easter. Thankfully our insurance covered all the moving expenses, including people coming and packing us completely up. 

Easter service at church was great with an awesome play and of corse great music. After church we had Easter lunch at mom and dads. All the family was there. Faith loved Easter egg hunting. She is staring to understand so much more now. Who knows maybe next year she will have a little brother or sister to hunt with.

 We are living with mom and dad for probably 3 months and will continue to fundraise for adoption.

                                            

"We were hit"

Tornados. Wow. I have told the story to so many I still can't believe this happened to our family and while we were home. It was a nice day. A little cloudy and but nothing out of the ordinary. I went and worked out and then Faith and I went to Target in Mesquite and to Black eyed Pea to eat. When we walked out of the restaurant after eating around 12:30 it was starting to rain. You could look at the clouds and just tell something was going on. We got in the car and literally raced home. When we were almost to Forney, Jesse called and said, "Are you home? Have you been listening to the radio? There are tornado warnings everywhere around us." "Yes babe, I know. We are almost home. Love you" I said. We got home around 1:00. Faith was in the transition of not wanting to take a nap. Of course every day around 1:00 she gets exhausted so we try to lay down. I was in the worst looking pair of PJs I own. I had the radio on and heard "Forney needs to take cover", but how many times in my life have I taken cover for nothing? Every time.  The electricity went off right around two-something and we still went on trying to take a nap. It sounded more windy than usual so I went and looked out our back windows. 

Looking in amazement I saw the tornado coming at us. I stared with my mouth dropped open. I could hardly see anything but debris and a huge dark cloud. I grabbed 2 pillows from our couch, scooped up my baby girl in my arms and headed towards the center bathroom. I slammed the door and within seconds the tornado hit our home. All I can remember is praying and not letting go of Faith. It sounded like the car was going to come through the garage. Crazy. "Where was I going to run if that happened", I thought? Thank goodness it didn't. God showed himself in so many ways through all of the tornado drama; blessing us with an amazing contractor that completely took care of us with upgrades, and giving what we needed for the rest of our adoption. Thank you to my parents for welcoming us with open arms and allowing us to stay at your home for as long as we needed. We were extremely blessed by something so terrible. GOD shows himself in every part of our lives.