Another Friday Adventure!!

Last friday we went to the LSU campus and saw Mike the tiger. I think it is pretty cool that they have a real tiger hanging out at the school. It was really fun. I really like friday's.

Friday Family Fun Day!

NEW ORLEANS.

Every Friday is our family adventure day so we try and get out and explore our new home. A few weeks ago Spencer took us to New Orleans because even though I've lived here before I had never been to the French Quarter. It was so wonderful and beautiful. The French Quarter is one of my new favorite places on the planet. The Buildings are beautiful, the food is incredable, and the music playing on the street was really fun.
We had a blast.

I am eating a Beignet at Cafe du Monde. They are so amazing. We were covered in powdered sugar once we finished.

This street was really cool because it had all the art gallery's. I loved it.

These musicians were playing there music right in front of the cafe we were eating lunch at so we were dancing as we ate. Erik really loved the music.

I Told You I Would Get Caught Up!!

Laney is such a joy to be around. I love being a mother of two. They are so amazing and I feel so blessed to have them.

I pulled out my camera to take some pictures and then she totally started smiling so I took about a million shots in 5 min. I couldn't help myself. Good thing we are using a digital camera these days because I would be spending alot of money on film thats for sure.

Laney is two months old today. These pictures were taken a few days ago.

Erik loves to kiss her and hug her. She really likes him. She was smiling at him the other day and he loved that.

She has alot of hair. I love it. It gets alittle wild sometimes.


So I am still in the process of getting our blog updated but these pictures are the most resent pictures we have taken of Laney so I hope you've enjoyed them.

Little Laney Bug!

My beautiful friend Ashley took these pictures when Laney was 3 days old. They are woderful. Thank you Ash.

Laney De McBride

Laney De McBride was born on 8/8/08 so she is a very lucky baby. We are so glad to have her in our family. She is so beautiful and we love her. She was born in Poway, California. Laney weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. and she was 19 1/2 in. long with a full head of dark beautiful hair. we love being parents of 2 they are alot of fun. Erik is a wonderful big brother he loves to give her kisses and he shares his favorite toys with her.

We will get caught up with our pictures soon I promise.

Update on Hurricane Gustav

Well, we are safe. Hurricane Gustav was wild and made us a little nervous throughout the day on Monday. There were times when the wind was blowing so hard we were worried trees were going to fall on our house. So we all stayed in our back room away from windows. Power went out before Noon on Monday and is still off.

After the storm started to die down, we spent the evening in our exremely hot and humid house and didn't sleep much. It was too hot to wrap Laney in a blanket, and she woke up every half hour or so. On Tuesday morning we surveyed the damage in our yard and neighborhood. We had a lot off branches down and had a few trees fall in our yard. Fortunately they fell on the fences in our backyard. The neighborhood didn't fare so well. Trees were blocking the road and power lines were down all over the place. It became very clear to us that when people were talking about power being off for a week or so, they weren't exagerating. The power company says it will be several days before they can even have an estimate of when power will return.

So, we decided to leave town until LSU reopened or power came back on (whichever comes first). LSU is closed until at least next Monday. We'll hopefully be back before then. The only people we know not also affected by the storm is Lindsay's cousin and his family in Houston. So we made a 4 1/2 hour drive over to Texas and, alas, we have electricity and internet enough to update our blog for all y'all (and yes, people in the south do say "all ya'll" as if "y'all" wasn't already plural).

So we are safe. Erik is happy because Lindsay's cousin John has a dog and twin daughters aged 3 1/2. He's having a blast.

We love our home and our new hometown, and are anxious to get back and hope this is the last of the hurricanes for this season.

Preparing for Hurricane Gustav!

Hey, all. We haven't updated our blog for a little while and there are some important events that have occurred in the past month we want to share with y'all (including moving to Baton Rouge, LA). But those will wait for a little bit longer.

In case some of you were wondering, we are scheduled to receive a category 3-4 hurricane late tonight or tomorrow morning. Its supposed to be a pretty intense storm. We are about as prepared as we can be at this point. We have plenty of water, a good amount of food stored and means to cook it in the event of the power going out for several days (which we are being told is very likely). We will tape up our windows (plywood is more protective, but we dont have any). But if you tape asterisks on the window panes with masking tape, if the window breaks, the glass will at least stay together and not shatter leaving the interior of the house exposed to the storm. We have also filled our bathtub with water so that we can continue to use our toilets when/if the water goes out.

The front yard of our house has two very large trees and Erik's room is on that side of the house. So we will be camping out in our far back room as far away from potentially fallen limbs/trees for safety. Its a good thing we like each other, especially since we'll be spending so much time together over the next few days in close quarters.

School has been cancelled for Tuesday and potentially longer. We have not been ordered to evacuate at this time and are not expecting to. We would only go if the evacuation order was mandatory, but really dont know where we would go. Probably up North into Mississippi or something. If we have electricity, we will try to post updates on our blog.

Wish us luck!