tsunami anyone????

Well this is how we ended up Saturday night October 27, 2012!! Now I'll tell a little bit about how this all came about......

It all started out like a normal day, it's the Saturday before Halloween and we haven't been to the pumpkin patch yet to pick the perfect pumpkin (more about that in other post-to many pictures) later that night Turtle Bay Resort was holding a halloween party so we decided to head over there and see what it was all about, well truth be told it was pretty lame so we decided to walk down to the beach to see the huge waves that have been around for the last couple of days

 Bailee already had walked down to the water, you can't keep that girl away! 

 The waves would come crashing up onto the shore and the kids would go running from the waves, Jake kept saying the waves were to fast and ended up all wet-but anyone that knows Jake knows that probably wasn't true

On our way home from the beach, we stopped at the store to get milk and some last minute thing to make Sunday dinner. We get home around 7pm and that is when things took a turn-around 7:15pm on the TV came one of those national alerts that they always say if this was a real emergency, well this one really was, but at the time the sirens weren't going off so we thought maybe it was just an advisory and they would keep us posted. Not so....15 minutes later that is when the first siren went off. That is when we realized that we were NOT prepared at all-our neighbors came and said that we needed to evacuate and that is when the kids started to well freak out-we had tears, some jumping up and down (jake thought it was exciting) and Jon and I trying not to freak out as well. We hurried and emptied out the back of the van to make a bed, because well we didn't know how long we would be away from home, threw some food and water in a cooler, grabbed pillows and blankets and headed to high ground. Turns out we learned a few things: 1-I never understood how important 72 hour kits really were until now, 2-If I keep my cool it helps keep the kids calm 3-being prepared really does give you that peace of mind in an emergency (which I didn't have THIS time) and 4-turns out they aren't as scary as we all thought, it was more of a party at the church.

We arrived at the church around 7:45-8pm and we just hung out at the church trying to get some sleep and around 1am we were givin the all clear to head home. We didn't know the exact protocol for church the next morning but because it was our primary program we got the kids up and went to church at 8am and the kids did great-tired but great!!