Hurricane Ike

The last week has been dominated by IKE. This time last week we were starting preparations, everyone was nervous, and to be honest, a little excited. The excitement has gone down and is replaced with sadness for all those who have lost either their homes or lives. We have never seen so much destruction. We are so sad for Galveston. It is one of our favorite places. We also love Kemah and the boardwalk sustained quite a bit of damage. However, we have been greatly blessed because we only received damage to several of our trees and our fence. The clean up has dominated most of our time. Ba, Mom and Zach have been over several times to help us with the trees and to fix parts of our fences. We rented a wood chipper yesterday and reduced the giant piles of branches into two piles of wood chips. Fortunately we also got our power back on Tuesday evening. Mom and Ba still have not received their power back, but have helped their neighbors by sharing their generator with them. They have also helped us immensely. We are so blessed to live near them. Please pray for them that they will get their power back! One of the tender mercies of the Lord is that we have had a cold front move in and the weather has been beautiful. It has made things tolerable for those without power. I don't know how people lived here in Texas before air conditioning!!!

We also celebrated Jeb's birthday last night. I think he had a good time. He is 4 now. We can't believe that he has grown up so fast. His school was damaged by Ike and so he won't return to school until further notice. Hannah, Dee and Faith return to school next Monday. Things are slowly getting back to normal for us. I will post some pics. soon.