Hurricane Ike

We had a GREAT weekend this past weekend! My parents were vacationing in Galveston and were supposed to have been there through the weekend, but due to Hurricane Ike, they had to evacuate! It's a good thing they did because the hotel they were staying at had lots of damage. I'm sorry that their vacation got cut short, but we were super excited that they got to come to SA! They don't get to come down here very often, so we enjoyed having them here!!!!

Steph and Ed had a houseful of guests that were evacuated from Victoria, so Ted and Sherry came to stay at our house with us too. We had so much fun w/ everyone!

Friday night (before Ted and Sherry got into town) Steve, me, my mom and dad all went to a local high school football game. It was not a good game, but still fun to be with them! Saturday Zach was getting a level of his black-belt in Karate, so we went to the ceremony for him to get that. Below are some pics to cap off our weekend...

Mom and Dad at the house before they had to hit the road on Sunday. (Look at how good my mom looks! And mom, thanks for the recipes on the triscuits!!!)


Ted and Sherry out on our deck while we were goofing around in the yard on Sunday:


Steve and Zach in the backyard:


Steph, Ed, Zach, and Autumn after Zach got his belt:


Steph and Autumn on our deck:


Below is video of my favorite part of the weekend! After church Saturday night, we went back to the house for dinner. Unfortunately, Steph and Ed couldn't come :-( , so it was just me and Steve w/ both sets of our parents. We ate and then sat around telling funny stories and laughing! Dad told some good stories about my Peepaw (his dad) who died when I was just a little girl. We filled Ted and Sherry in on some "Brad" stories of him being a prankster... they were quite amused.

Here's dad telling stories. And in one of my previous blogs I talked about Ted and Steve being so fun to watch laugh... here's a little taste of them laughing at one of the stories my dad told!:


And here's Zach breaking a board in a demonstration that they did for the audience. He's so good... and growing up so fast!: