Mother's Day started with a Bang....literally

Last weekend marked another chaotic Mother's Day for us. On Friday, 90+mph winds ripped through Carthage just as school was fixing to start and left quite a few of us without power and huge messes to clean up. Trees were either ripped out of the ground or broken like toothpicks, power lines were down, houses, cars, and other structures suffered different types of damage. We were lucky though, no tornados this year unlike last year. We were without power for 2 days but luckily had the generator to plug our deep freeze and fridge in to. We found shingles and limbs in our yard that weren't even from our house!! It was quite a storm, hit suddenly, and rattled our nerves for sure. In a span of 2 weeks I have had my heater, attic fan, and AC all on at one point or another......gotta love our wacky weather in good ole' Missouri.
We celebrated Mother's Day this year by spending time with the family at Alice's house. This past weekend also marked Alice's birthday (I better not tell you the exact age though...she might scalp me for it!) So, I had to make her a special birthday cake! Since she won a new golf bag at a tournament, i really wanted to make her the golf bag cake...so I did! Now, you can't play golf without a golf ball...right? So, I made her a big pink golf ball too..complete with Nike swoosh! We had a great time after dinner whacking golf balls outside, although I'm still trying to convince Trevor that he can't hit a golf ball like it's a baseball! All in all we had a great Mother's Day and as always enjoyed our time together. Here are a few pictures from our weekend!
With no power at home, I had to decorate cakes at Nanny's house...it proved to be too much excitement for Nicky so he decided his time was better spent taking a nap. Luckily for him, Bugsy stood guard while he slept!
Auntie Alice really liked her pink golfing gear!
Nanny started off the lighting of all those candles....
Then Ian and Levi decided they should relieve her and took it over....
Boy, the top of that cake got hot!! So hot it literally melted the icing! hehehe
She almost got them all in one big blow!
Nicholas and Levi had some "guy" talk on the floor
One really crazy thing about the storm we had was that everything was plastered in pieces of grass and new leaves....they were stuck so tight onto everything that it was like trying to scratch a sticker off something. Donovan says they were "vacuum sealed" onto everything.....wow, we had some crazy wind that morning!
This is just one of the trees that we lost that morning...I really liked that one too!! It always had the best colors to it in the fall :-( Thankfully none of our big, old trees came crashing down...that would have been a complete and total disaster if they had!
We could hear these limbs hitting the house as we headed to the basement...there were 3 this size that smacked into the house....dented the gutters and ripped a few pieces of trim off too. It wasn't a tornado...but it was close enough for me!