Holy Tornados!

Most of you have already heard by now, but this weekend Georgia was assaulted with Tornados, with one touching down in Atlanta causing some pretty significant destruction! Roofs were flying off buildings, vehicles were being overturned, and freeway signs were ripped off of their stands and thrown into the street. Not to worry, Parker and I were home tucked safely in our beds. Chris was downtown pretty close to where the storm struck, but was also safe after a long drive home. Out here in Gainesville, most of my colleagues spent their Saturday afternoon taking shelter in their basements while tornado sirens blared through the whole town. Luckily, aside from a few fallen trees, things out here are ok too.

Of course my parents were worried when they got off the plane from Mexico and saw the news that Atlanta had been struck by a tornado. Mom called me to make sure we were safe and was, I'm sure, relieved to find out that we were unscathed. In fact, we got up the next morning, lounged around the house, and went to the wedding we were planning to attend. The wedding was on the 25th floor of the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, where we could look out over all of the damage from the night before. Luckily, the hotel was spared and the wedding could take place. I imagine Ashley must have been terrified watching the news the night before!!!

Yesterday we went grocery shopping at the new Super Walmart that opened a mile from our house (yay!)and then went to dinner at a friend of Chris'. Parker was SO active all weekend long and truly looks like he's about to start crawling all over the place. He sort of scoots and shimmies right now, but he is so motivated to get places I'm sure we're in for some more surprises this week.

Well, I'd better get to work, but wanted to update you on our interesting encounter with mother nature.

There's no place like home! :)