More prayers....please!!!

Just keep their whole crew in your prayers...this is a scary/weird event! I just hate the thought period! Yes, this is Justin's ship.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_re_af/af_somalia_piracy

Fox News report: http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3117034&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/index.html

Thanks for the prayers!!

Everyone is ok, aside from the clean up and no electricity, for the most part everyone is fine. No trees falling on houses or anything that bad. I haven't talked to my dad yet, but I don't know if he has been able to get back to his house yet anyway. It's BAD down in Galveston!!

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Thanks all!!

Some prayers please!!

My entire family lives *IN* Houston! Many of them are not leaving. My dad's house on Galveston bay (and he did leave) will most likely take a direct hit unless Ike decides to turn more East and then Houston/Galveston will get the "easy" side of the storm. My brother and Jennifer left for her parent's in Dallas, so I knwo they are safe. My sister lives in La Porte, and they have left to go up to my other sisters near Austin and they are safe. On that note Angie and Ryan may get a good bit of "slammed" by this beast too after just outrunning Gustav! :(

So just keep my family in your prayers. I am MEGA concerned about Oma in her house surrounded by rickety trees!! Carol and Patty and the kids will be there with her, and they have a generator when they lose power....but UGH!! I feel so helpless!!! :(

First Day of School

The alarm clock went off at 7am, but Falyn was already up and rearing to go! I didn't even get to do our "first day of school! first day of school!" (think Nemo!) Faith was a little slower to rise, but I got her up with little resistance (I think this may kill my late sleeper, this 7am waking up!)

Waffles and milk for breakfast.
Clothes had been picked out and hung out, ready to be put on. Falyn in a little silver mini dress with black tights and black flats and Faith in a cute heart tie back shirt, jeans and Airwalk tenni's (forever the tomboy!).

All is going well at this point. They load up in the car and we drive over (too close to ride the bus). There is no where to park (duh mom!) and so we park a few streets away and walk. I figure that dropping Faith off first would probably be best. Yea...well...that was SO sad!! She cried, Chandler cried....I had to fight the tears!! It was traumatic for all of us. But I think she will be ok. She did this to me in preschool too...and did it for a while in Sunday School as well. She just likes to be with her mommy!! :)

Falyn marched off like a champ to Mr. J's 3rd grade class and I am positive that girl will have a GREAT day!

My beautiful school girls!!




xoxo

UPDATE: They had a GREAT day and couldn't stop talking the whole walk home....yak yak yak! It was awesome! I tried something a little different this morning (drastic)....I dropped them off at the crosswalk, and let them go on their way to class. Faith wasn't thrilled about that idea, but I bet that she went to class much much easier than if I was standing there. She "whined" but I don't think the tears really came. Today is their half-day, so they will be home in a few hours, and I can see how it went and if that worked better.