Lanie's 1st Birthday

Good Night 11 month old

Good Morning 1 YEAR OLD (yes this is how her hair looks every morning)

Mommy and Daddy filled my crib with balloons.

Luv me some balloons!

Daddy and Lanie on her birthday morning.
Of course Mommy didn't get in on the photo op. Yes the hair is out of control again.

Lanie's Birthday blue berry muffin.

Lanie's birthday was an exciting yet surreal day. I still am in disbelief that she is actually one. I of course am slacking with my picturing taking. Seems to be on the back burner most days as I am trying to manage everything else involved with life. Lanie's birthday was on a Wednesday so after we get done with work to church we headed. We knew there was a chance of severe storms, but let's face it this happens a lot in OK. During Awanas I keep keeping a look at the window and then started receiving Frank's weather call. Soon after everyone in the church was escorted to the "Pit". The youth normally meets in this basement, but it often floods so has not been used for the past few months. Once I realized that we were going to the basement due to the sirens going off I immediately ran to get Lanie from the preschool rooms. Bart had beat me to her (such a good daddy), so I grabbed another lil girl from her class to take to her mommy. As soon as I got to the main building there was her mommy who was quite relieved to see her. For the next 30 - 45 minutes we were all stacked out in the "Pit". We then received word that there was a break in between the storms and if we lived close we could make it. So knowing that it was past Lanie's bed time we decided that we should head to the house. The sky looked not so good on the way home. I kept looking around knowing that a tornado was going to pop out of the sky coming right towards me. Well Thank Goodness that didn't happen. Once we arrived home, I started to get Lanie around for bed as usual. I managed to get Lanie through her bath and was putting on her PJs when here comes Bart saying..."um we need to get into the closet....like now". So here I go off to the closet thinking to myself....why o why did we not stay at church which at least was a bit safer. If you can imagine me sitting in the closet with Lanie (on her birthday), 2 dogs, one who is very very scared of storms, and Bart standing close by watching the news on TV. We had the mattress from our roll away and all the pillows from our bed. Then I hear a possible tornado on the ground 2 miles south of our house. I must say there was a thought that went through my head. If a tornado hits this house are we going to be safe???? Truth is you just never know. That night solidify my previous request for a storm shelter in our next home. I will have a shelter with absolutely no doubt in my mind. The good news is the storm blew over our house with no tornado. Of course as an after thought I wondered why in the world we did not document our closet storm shelter experience on Lanie's birthday for memories. I guess me freaking out about our safety consumed my mind. Silly me. Turned out to be quite an exciting 1st Birthday. I;m hoping not to make this a yearly birthday tradition but we will have to wait till next year!!!