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We had a busy day that culminated in going to my parents last night. We had a grill out then we were going to roast marshmallows. We started looking out to the back of the field and it was looking nasty. Lightening, dark sky, not pretty. So, we rounded up everything and took off. It took us longer to take off because for some reason my brothers don’t like to help pick up. (Hint hint boys) Pato was left gathering beer bottles, plates, taking glasses in the house, etc while I was nursing a cranky Christiano. We had forgotten the Tylenol at home and that child was not happy at all. We finally got on the road and as we were nearing the exit after my parents it started storming horribly. You couldn’t see, the hail was bouncing off my car. We thought it was going to crack my windshield. (Remember this was my new car, so I’m almost in tears driving down the interstate.) We ended up passing that exit because it’s in the middle of nowhere, no protection for the car. Before we even got to the next exit Pato had me pull under a bridge to wait it out with 3 other cars. Everyone was outside of the cars running their hands over them to see if there was hail damage, including Pato. He doesn’t think there was but he needs to see it in the daylight to double check.

We turned on 1040 WHO to listen to the news about the weather. All we hear is there is a bad thunderstorm west of my parents with golf ball size hail coming at us at 20 MPH. Um, what about the storm we’re in now? Want to tell me want to expect out of that? Please?

Finally stops so we start going again, we didn’t even get to the next exit before it started hailing again. (It was still raining hard when we left the safety of the bridge.) So, we pull up under the next bridge which only had one lone caravan under it. Do you think they could have pulled forward so we’d fit under it too? I mean, we got 3 cars under the last bridge. Nope. So, we sat there getting pelted, but it wasn’t as bad as if we were coming at it going 70 MPH. Ok, I wasn’t going 70, more like 35 MPH. LOL Hail stops again, we head on home. Now, here’s the weird part. We are driving a long, before we get to the next bridge in front of our exit, it’s storming, you can’t hardly see, windshield wipers going 1000 miles per hour, come out from under that bridge, completely dry. Not one rain drop on the ground. HUH?

We got home, Pato had me park the car in the front so that I could whisk the kids into the house before it started raining here. HA HA HA! I opened the door and the sky opened up and dumped buckets of water on us on the way into the house. Pato helped unload kids/stuff from my parents then he rushed off to the garage to make room for my car in it. (Don’t know why he always parked his car in it, his isn’t new.)

Came in, got some Tylenol down Christiano and the kids slept like babies through the rest of the storm. Of course Christian would sleep like a baby, but he is normally up and down all night. They all slept great last night. It did continue to storm for quite awhile out here, we watched the tree branches blowing in circles rather than one way or the other. Kind of freaked me out, but my baby was in the garage, so it was safe and my computers were unplugged. All good at this point. LOL

Great, just got this email alert from our news station -

A very warm, moist atmosphere, 2 frontal boundaries, and strong jet stream winds aloft have combined to give us severe weather in several rounds. Last night’s round has merged over Illinois. This morning’s round continues pushing across northern Iowa. We’re keeping a close eye on storms forecast to fire this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. There is a moderate risk of severe weather over big portions of the state for the next 36 hours, so stay tuned to Storm Team 8.

No thank you. You can send that back. I”m done with storms for awhile.

Here’s a few pictures from our running around yesterday – enjoy!

Christiano and I – he’s still putting up with in and out of the car at this point.

If you’re wanting an effect like that on your pictures and you PSP, I ran my Soft Wash script on all of these today.

My girls in their matching Disney Princess dresses they had to have.

A very very rare picture of me and all 4 kids. Must be scrapped.

So that was our day. Let me leave you with a link to mesothelioma. I think I’ve given it before, but why not again? It’s something near and dear to our family’s hearts. My SIL’s mother died of cancer due to being exposed to asbestos for many many years at a prominent tire company here in Iowa. Thank God they now know about the harm asbestos does. A little too late though for some folks.

Ok, before I leave you, here’s some more info:

If you’ve been following the Twitter information coming out of Iran, I’ve got some information for you. First, here’s an avi to use on Twitter if you haven’t already changed you’re picture to green in support.

Live Twitter Stream From Iran Something that one of the guys I follow/follow me (one of my first Twitter friends, in fact) set up. All the tweets about Iran are flowing through there if you want them all in once place, or if you don’t have Twitter.

Guide for helping those in Iran when you are Twittering.

Fake Iran Election Tweeters

Other info regarding tweeting, etc with this.

A quote that was tweeted from Iran -

“I’ve learned something today. Americans DO care about the world outside America. Their media just doesn’t.”

I’m so glad they can see that your average American does care what is going on and that we’re not these selfish people we are portrayed to be.

Have a beautiful day and to those in Iran our thoughts and prayers are with you.

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1. I got to meet Kari and Ann!
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