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About a month ago Chrsty and I took a Saturday and went out and helped repaint a womens shelter down in Richmond. This was part of an effort of our local church, Crossbridge, to show the city.. the community… the people… that the church is part of more things than just looking at themselves. Every [...]

Every year we get together with a bunch of friends and throw a big front yard party for Halloween at the Nilsson’s. We go all out with a bounce house, free hotdogs, free cokes, games for the kids, music, candy, candy and more candy! It’s a great time to meet neighbors and show kids and [...]

Hey everybody! Well we are alive, I promise. It’s been a long few weeks of getting things back in order for us as we were without power for 12 days after the Hurricane! Big thanks to Diego and Julie and also Meg and Scott for being so inviting and letting us all stay with them [...]

We weathered the storm without too much damage. We had some big limbs come down in our yard with some minor fence damage, but overall we escaped much of the disaster that came through Houston.
We lost power around midnight and mostly stayed awake through the night listening to the wind blow hard. Around dawn the [...]

We’re watching the sun go down on the eve of the hurricane and so far so good. Everyone seems to be staying in as much as they can and we’re all hunkered down (seems to be the catch phrase around here) and waiting. There’s lots of wind but so far no rain, which is good. [...]

So there’s this small little storm heading right towards us. OK so maybe not too small, but we’ve decided to hunker down and wait it out and it seems like most of our friends and neighbors have decided to do the same. The main roads were fairly busy but NOTHING like when hurricane Rita came. [...]