Our Hurricane Visitors!

I was walking down the stairs when I saw a car in our driveway. I didn't think anyone was out and about yet. But Amber and Mike were checking things out and stopped by to see how we were doing. They really came to save the day. It is always great to visit with them, but today we definitely needed the visit. It was starting to get a little warm, Steve was needing some quiet time and the kids needed more entertainment than I was able to provide.

My kids love entertaining Van also.

They hung out for a few ours with us, played some games, ate lunch and then when we were just about to all melt we decided to take a ride in the air conditioned car to Sugarland to see all the damage there and visit their home.

We did see a lot more damage in their area, big trees down, power lines down, roofs blown off and lots and lots of debris everywhere. BUT they had electricity, so we hung out with them for a while. Here we are with electricity. Yes, everyone had their own computer.

Rachel playing Nancy Drew

Matthew playing Chess and a few other games.

Lauren watching a movie

Ethan taking art lessons from Amber

This is what he started at their house and finished before he went to bed.

They actually all caught the art bug and have been busy sketching pictures ever since. I'll post those next.

But while we were there at about 6:00pm we got a phone call from our neigbors, the Tuckets, that our electricity was back on. YEAH!!! They also told us that Bryan was a little bored today so he fixed our fence for us. They truly are the best neighbors ever and not just because they fixed our fence.