An Early Easter...

Friday night, after the Chamber of Commerce Banquet, Claude and I drove on to LaGrange. The Marx family was already in bed, so we quietly entered their home and tiptoed up the stairs to the guest room and curled up for some rest. There was lots of thunder and lightening all night long.

Hayden and Bailey knew we were coming on Saturday to play but they did not know we spent the night. In the morning I awoke to Hayden coughing. He had been home from school the previous two days. A little later I could hear Andie talking with Hayden in his room. I knew then Hayden was really awake.

I climbed out of bed and went to his bedroom door and tapped on it. Hayden thought it was Bailey wanting to come in. He gave the okay to enter his room. I quietly opened the door and entered. He looked up and saw me and was shocked. Then he fell face forward onto his bed. Then I got all those lovely hugs that only a six year old grandson can give. Good stuff.

It wasn't long before Bailey made her presence known. That meant it was time to go in and wake up Pa (Claude).

I assured Andie she needed to go back to bed and I would watch the Mini's while she got a bit more sleep. What a treat for me to be able to spend time with these two little characters that morning. We left Claude to sleep in and we headed downstairs to have some breakfast and play for a bit. Cushions came off the sofa and love seat and great places to play were made. Trampolines were played with. Cereal was eaten. I brought plastic Easter eggs that I put the sticky foam letters in that would spell 3-letter words. The kids stayed in the family room and I hid the eggs in the play room. Then we opened those eggs and made words. It was great fun.

Andie came downstairs first. We had to check out her 'worm farm'. Andie is trying out a tier container set-up that creates mulch out of your food scraps. The contraption is full of red worms. They process the food into mulch. Quite a set-up.

Michael joined us next and then, eventually, Claude came downstairs. We had a very nice morning.

Look carefully in the giraffe tent on Claude...you'll find Hayden curled up in a little ball.

Bailey is peeking out of the giraffe tent in this picture.

Both Hayden and Bailey are curled up in the giraffe tent this time. What a Mighty Pa!!!

Michael went out in the storms to get groceries. He was kind enough to stop at Big R's BBQ and get us dinner. Claude and I purchased two Groupon's for there and we used one of them.

Andie got egg decorating stuff together. After quiet time we colored Easter eggs. She had white crayons for the kids to write on them and the dye won't stick on them in those spots. She also had rubber bands to wrap around the eggs. The dye doesn't adhere to the spots that are rubber bands. Then you can leave the eggs that way or drop them in another color.  That changes the color of the stripes as well as the original color you dipped the eggs in. The kids had a fun time.

We were watching the weather to see when the best time to leave might be. They actually showed Sadieville on a weather map. LaGrange is in the Louisville news area and Sadieville is totally out of their region. Their weatherman was telling the viewers he knew this was not in their area but he also knew there were family members and friends of people in his viewing area that should tell them to seek shelter. We found a break in the weather and headed to Sadieville. The creeks were flooded between LaGrange and Shelbyville. The water was pouring out of the rocks along I-64 near Frankfort. We have definitely had more than our share of water this spring.

When we got to Sadieville and pulled into Eagle Bend, the Eagle Creek was way over its banks. Ususally the dam keeps it to a meandering stream by the water station tower. You can see in this picture it was all the way over the banks and up the land. The other picture is where the dam is. You can see that the water was high enough you can't even tell there is a dam under the water. By the time it was just about dark, Claude went back to check on the bridge. Last year it flooded over the bridge. Saturday night it was right under the bottom of the bridge.

We were happy to make it home between storms and be on our side of the bridge. It is the only bridge in and out of our subdivision. If it goes, we have to wait for the creek to go way down and then the Jeep could get us across.

We have been greatly blessed. We have only had two times that the warning siren for a tornado has sent us to our basement. We are grateful we have a basement to hide out in during these storms as needed.