IKE HAS LEFT HIS MARK ON SOUTHEAST TEXAS

No one in Southeast Texas was untouched by Ike. Thank heavens mostly by inconvenience to us. We got lights and phones today. 50 percent of Jasper is up. This is one time I was glad to be first. We lost one tree and a LOT of limbs as you can see from the pics. I could fill up several dump trucks with all that is laying in the yard. I won't lack for something to do for a while.

Galveston was not as lucky, I heard the water surge there was 22 feet. We haven't had tv, so I don't know that for sure but looking at the damage it's believable. I think it was 14 feet in Winnie. The farmers and ranchers were wiped out. There are dead cattle in the thousands, and more still stranded that might not survive. Bridge city was hit hard also. The news reported today school will not start there for a month

Would you believe with winds here at 70 miles per hour we still have luv bugs. It should have blown them to the other side of the world. Here everyone is with no electricity and having to cook outside and the luv bugs are worse than they have been in years.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO KEPT US IN THEIR PRAYERS!!!!!

Some pics of the mess in my yard. The trees are getting really aero dynamic .

HURRICANE IKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we are about to be slammed by yet another hurricane. It is expected to make land fall in the early hours of the morning Saturday in Galveston. We are going to have winds in excess of 90 miles per hour and a storm surge of 14 feet. That's if it doesn't intensify and it probably will. The storm surge won't impact us here in Kirbyville but the winds surely will with the 20 oak trees surrounding our house. We are going to ride it out with friends that live close but have no trees. We probably won't have electricity for a while, I will try to let everyone know what is happening after we get the generator up and going. Keep us in your prayers.

THE BIG 3

Cameron turned 3 July 26th. She was excited about her party, she had FRIENDS coming to play. Both the girls are a little spoiled to Nana making cakes. They just look through my cake books and pick out the one they want. For some reason they keep getting bigger each year. The pic doesn't do justice to the size. The bottom layer was 15" diameter and 5 " thick.


Her present from Mom & Dad and Nana & Paw-paw. She is a one month old Mini horse, she named her Callie Horsey. She weights about 45 pounds. I had to pick her up to put her in and out of the trailer when we brought her home.



There were lots of friends to help celebrate

LACEY'S BIG DAY

Sorry, I haven't updated in a while. Summer gets busy for everyone. I am having to do 3 seperate post. Dialup times out if I try to post more than 4 pics at a time.

Lacey, Graydon's oldest got married Fridat night. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey Davis

What better time to take a few family photos. It's not very often we get dresses up.

SWIMMING LESSONS

Aspen and Cameron each took private swimming lessons this summer. Keith and I went and watched them on the last day. We were really impressed. They can both go of the diving board. Aspen swims all over the pool by herself, Cameron still has to use floates in the deep end.

Toni and I went to get some plants for her yard. The people raise and show mini's. The girls fell in love. This baby was 4 month old, the lady has already trained her to do tricks.



Toni came over and rode Angel for me. She hasn't rode in 4 years, Angel hasn't been rode in quite a while either were both a little bit rusty. This was after the short rodeo. The horse fared much better than rider. Angel had some pretty bad spur marks from Toni trying to stay on. The inside of Toni's legs were bruised pretty bad. You should see the girls imitate Angel bucking their mom off.


Aspen cooling of at Graydon's girls birthday party



Cameron and cricket watching spongebob.