Once upon a stormy night...

I was lying on my bed reading a book; the thought "I really should be doing the dishes" was in the back of my mind, when I heard a siren go off. It took me a second to realize that it wasn't an emergency vehicle siren but it was the Tornado Siren. I jumped off the bed and went and turned on the t.v. The weather man was announcing that about thirty min. away there was a tornado and that the storm was moving towards North Little Rock. Of course I was freaking out, and I was trying to rack my brain about the details of what to do when a tornado comes that I had read from a pamphlet when we first moved here. Matt and I were doing are best to get things ready. Throwing clothes, food and water into a closet. (This really has inspired me to get my 72 hour kit ready). I called my mom and asked her to pray for us. Matt and I then said a prayer. Soon after they announced that there was a funnel cloud that was over our town. We got Blake up and went inside the closet. I think Blake thought we were playing some kind of game and he was smiling and laughing. Pretty soon I didn't feel so scared anymore and Matt and I started laughing and playing with Blake. I started to think about haw grateful for the knowledge I have that families our forever and that whatever happened in the end I would be with my family. Our prayers were answered and 20 min. later we were out of the closet. Blake went back to bed and Matt and I stayed up and watched the news to make sure there wouldn't be any more tornadoes. I looked outside the next morning and everything looked the same. However, we did find out that about ten min. away there was some damage. A lot of trees blew over and you could see some roofs in bad shape. Thanks for all the prayers!

Spring Break

Survey Help

My brother Ben is teaching at BYU-I and for his class they need people to take this survey. It took me about 3min. to take the survey. If you are interested please click on the link ( I hope it works). Thank
You!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=p2ZAvX4s9VOu0CXEe1Zkow_3d_3d

A new Addition

Many of you have noticed our new addition to our blog... the baby counter. Matt and I were a surprised to find out that we are going to have another baby. Needless to say we are very EXCITED! Yeah! The baby is due September 22nd. We will find out what we are having in May. I'll keep you posted.

Embarrassing Moments

I was watching American Idol last week and they had the contestants share there most embarrassing moments. It made me think about all of my embarrassing moments and I wondered which one (and there are many) is my most embarrassing moment. I thought would I consider last week my most embarrassing moment when I made a family in our ward a chicken casserole for dinner and forgot to add the chicken? Or would it be the time that my friends and I had to be rescued by some life guards at the beach ( I hadn't even realized we were in trouble) and everyone there was staring at us? Maybe it was the time when I met Matt's sister Cami and her husband Ben for the very first time and I broke one of their goblets they got for their wedding and then soon after I broke their bathroom door handle (great first impression)!
But then it came to me... a memory I had repressed for a long time...so here it is my most embarrassing moment.

It was probably about the time when I was in second grade (I refuse to believe I was any older than that). My Uncle Steve came to town and him and my Grandpa took my brothers ,sisters and I as well as some cousins on a hike. All the adults made a big deal about going to the bathroom before we left. I of course being a good girl obeyed. However, when we arrived to the trail I had to go to the bathroom so bad! I looked around for a bathroom, but had no luck. All the kids were playing in a shallow creek, while I desperately tried to figure out what to do, for I knew I would not be able to hold "it" for the entire hike. I had never gone behind a tree before so that thought never occurred to me. It took me too long to think of what to do and I my body couldn't take it any more and I sadly wet my pants! Now what was I going to do? One of my older, very loving brothers came over to me and asked in a teasing voice with a very large grin, "Hey Natalie, what happened to your pants?" I being very brilliant said I had tripped and fell into the creek. (Ya right...who falls into a creek and only gets the middle of their pants wet?) I knew that everyone knew what I had done.
I was so embarrassed I stayed in the back of the line on the hike right behind my Grandpa and Uncle who kept blowing their nose farmer style.* To make it even worse there was a bathroom there the whole time and I just hadn't seen it!

So what's your most embarrassing moment?

*Blowing your nose farmer style: No tissue of any type is necessary. You turn your head to the side, press thumb against nostril to close it , and blow allowing whatever is in opposite nostril to fall freely onto the ground. (yuck)

Snow Fun

On Friday it snowed for the second time this winter. Since it rarely snows in AR, everything shuts down including Matt's school. Blake and I were very happy to have Matt home and we went outside to play in the snow.

Blake and I are posing next to the snowman Matt made. He was the right size for Blake.

I am so lucky to have two good lookin' guys in my life! Matt and I had a fun time, but you can tell by the look on Blake's face he was a little bored with it. He will probably have more fun when he can do the playing in the snow instead of just having to watch us do the playing.

He liked it better when we were inside looking out the window at the snow.

Is it spring yet?

The past couple of days the weather has been wonderful. Matt and I like to take Blake on walks to a near by park and lately we haven't needed jackets, we were very excited about this. The trees also started to bloom pretty flowers. In fact I was thinking about posting a blog on how much I love spring time. Well... I guess winter decided it wasn't over yet and this is what we woke up to this morning. At fist I was a little depressed and then I decided that snow can be pretty too.