Quite a scary night last night!

Thunderstorms were forecast for last night but when they approached San Antonio around 11pm and then went in another direction, we thought that was it - that we had missed the storms.
Well, we were wrong.  Around 3 or so in the morning, we heard thunder and rain and thought ok, so another storm was passing through.  Then that storm passed and we thought it was all over.  I should have looked at the radar to see what was going on out there.
At around 4, we heard the storms kick up again and just get stronger and stronger until it started hailing.  We don't remember hearing hail this bad against a house.  We thought for sure our windows were going to break with how loud the sound was of the hail hitting them.  It was a scary few minutes there while that hail was falling!

More paint off of the truck and tons of debris all over the place.

The corn plants on the left looked so nice and healthy yesterday - today, they're worthless.

This was a really nice pot of petunias yesterday.  Looks like a rabbit just came in and ate them all off, but it was the hail just cutting them all up.

There was still all this hail at 11;30 this morning!

The side of our house is simply a mess.

Well, time to get out there and rake up all of that!!!

We also noticed that we have a few small holes in a few of our screens now.  And  the hail knocked  lots of granules off of our roof shingles - there were small piles of those granules on our driveway.  An insurance person will be coming out in the next few days.

Flower and pollen time

Not all that visible but there are bluebonnets in the field behind our house.

 This special rose continues on.  We made sure we dug out the bushes from our old house.

There is a downside to living among oak trees during this time of the year.  I had cleaned the oak pollen off of that table just two days ago and you can see the fresh wipe marks that I made today to clean the table off, yet again.  The table needs to be wiped off at least every other day.

2008 made into a book!

Not much to post lately.  I've been busy working on putting this blog into actual book form.  We received the book for 2008 last week!

Now the year 2009 is in the works.

Getting back into our routine

Well, we had a good trip back home last Sunday and Monday.  We left late on Sunday, getting a few last minute things done with Rebeca and finding a few extra minutes to take some pictures.

 We will miss this little boy terribly.  It's just not the same doing Facetime.

We will miss how he used to love to press the button to make his walker play "Oh Susanna" because he knew that would make us dance and clap and sing to that music.  We will miss how he would put his palms up and say, "ah?!" questioningly, meaning "what happened?"  We will miss how he would stand in front of all of his books, hold his hands up and go, "Ahhhhhhh", because he was entirely thrilled with how many good books there were for us to read to him.  We will miss how he would put his forefinger up, meaning: "hear that?", whenever he would hear a motorcycle.  Guillermo will miss seeing Scotty walk over to him with the two little French books in his hands, because only Abuelito can read those books to him correctly.  I will miss seeing Scotty run towards me as fast as he could, laughing, knowing that when he got to me, I would lift him up over my head and then give him millions of kisses.  There are hundreds more things we will miss.

Scotty was sitting in his high chair, having lunch, when we left so that made it a LITTLE bit easier to leave.  Still, it was quite sad......

  Then we stopped in Benson to have lunch with Roy.  Thank goodness for usually having lunch with Roy.  It gives us a little something to look forward to after leaving Rebeca's house.  We always enjoy meeting up with Roy.

We got as far as El Paso the first night, staying in a different hotel than usual which turned out to be just fine.  We had good weather to El Paso and good weather home from there.  The only little glitch is that an engine light came on, of course right after we left Fort Stockton so we were basically out in the middle of nowhere.  Checking the car's manual, it didn't seem imperative to stop immediately so we kept driving to Sonora where we had a garage check it out.  They claimed it "no big deal" and turned off the light.  

Last Full Day in Tucson

We had a nice breakfast at Millies Pancake Haus with family....

Scotty loved being with Charlie and his motorcycle.

Two pictures

Scotty is going to start going to a little school on Monday so today he had his first little trial stay there in the school.  It was an observation day for Rebeca and Jason.  It didn't go as well as they had hoped.  It started off great  - while Rebeca and Jason were still in the room with him.  But as soon as he realized they had stepped out, he basically did a lot of heavy duty crying and screaming.  There were brief periods of calmness but those were short.  Being in the room right next door to where he was, Rebeca and Jason could plainly hear him all upset and it was so hard for them.  The school is a good one and very inviting and bright and fun so we know that as soon as Scotty has gotten used to the place, as soon as he builds a relationship with one of the teachers there, he will actually love the place.

Only 3 days left here..... And Happy Birthday to Mom!!

First and Foremost, Happy Birthday to you, Mom!!!  We hope you had a nice birthday and I'm glad you were able to "talk" with Scotty a little bit on the phone when I called you.
Some random pictures from the last few days....

This little guy just LOVES walking around out in the yard, which is something he has just recently started doing.  He loves being outside so much that when it's time to go inside, he gets MAD!!

This is the first time he WALKED to the mailbox (he usually is in his stroller).  Here he is handing Guillermo the key to the mailbox as we get closer to it.

He loves his nightly bath!

Those are quite some faces the two of them are making.  Scotty said his first Spanish word today - pez.  Which means fish.

So, after he had to come inside this morning, he was inconsolable until he was able to sit at the front door and look AT the outside.

Enjoying the outside in the afternoon

This time, when it was time for him to go inside,  I had plans for him to look at something inside that he loves and that I knew would distract him from the fact that he was actually leaving the outside.  Fortunately, it worked and he came inside happily.