Spring storms

(Trent, Savannah, Charlotte, Rachael, Joey, Matthew, Isaac, and Jacob)

Spring in Tennessee means rain, lightning, rain, thunder, rain, tornadoes, and did I mention rain. This has been an extremely wet spring for us. Our grass/weeds are green and healthy and growing faster than we have dry days to mow. A few weeks ago a large storm came through and brought with it huge amounts of rain. At some point the accompanying wind began to move in a circular pattern and the kids in school ended up having to get into tornado safe places for several hours during the day. The afternoon buses had to run late because the school district didn't want students on the roads in the case of a 'touch down'. I decided to pick up the younger boys so they would get home before dark. While driving home I asked them how their day was. Joey complained, "I had to stand in the girls bathroom for more than an hour." Poor Joey, guess his class is assigned to the GIRLS bathroom in the case of tornadoes. Jacob was thankful his class was assigned the hallway and not the bathroom. He informed me that he hopes he doesn't get a certain teacher next year because than he would have to stand in the girl's bathroom for tornado drills, Yuck!!! When the storm finally passed we went exploring. We discovered the woods behind our house had flooded. Matthew and Jacob ran down to further investigate and quickly discovered the usually dry area now contained over 4 feet of water. As they played in our new "pool" I ran in and got Trent. He decided it was plenty deep to pull out the canoe. Once the boat was settled we called our neighbors and invited them to come play as well. They all enjoyed hours of fun and it was a good thing they took advantage, because by the next day the water was gone, in fact by that evening it was dry enough to mow our overgrown lawns/weeds, YEAH!........the boys were thrilled;P