Sunshine Award

I have received my FIRST blog award from my friend at Carter's Chaos! Thank you, Edie!!!

The Sunshine Award is passed on to blogger's that inspire others and show positivity and creativity.

These are the blogs that I enjoy reading the most. They have great suggestions and usually make me smile! It's great to catch up on their blogs when I need a laugh, smile or a little inspiration.

1. My cousin, Jessica's at Books, Bucks & Beyond - a great coupon/money saving blog
2. My old roommate from college, Shawna's at Pieces of Me - a blog about her family of 4 kids, homeschooling, and just life
3. My friend since ???, Lori at Lori Bunk - a mom, youth pastor, sister and daughter - she does it all and inspires her readers spiritually to grow
4. My friend (and Lori's sister), Keri at Keri Sheerer - a mom to newborn twins and a toddler, and is just a joy to see her family grow!
5. My friend from childhood, Nina at Nina Bunk - a mom to two little cuties that has the funniest stories and pictures
6. My friend via my cousin (we have never met in person!), Wendi at Life in the Polar North Defrosts - a family's journey through infertility, adoption, irish twins and medical school
7. My cousin's wife Joia at Our Daily Post from the Emerald Coast - an Air Force family of 4 blog about life and crafts
8. My friend, Karen at Marriage Vitamins - I used to babysit her 5 kids and now they are all grown up!
9. My friend from Northwest Arkansas and the multiples club there, Mary at The Johanson Journal - her antics with super filly, girlie girl twins and another girl. I love all the pictures!
10. A stranger I have never met, but I want to be like her. Amanda at Kevin & Amanda. She is crafty, takes awesome pictures, sews (something I would LOVE to learn), blogs, creates fonts, etc.

Please comment and share any other great blogs that I may be missing out on!!!

For those that were nominated (or if you would want to do a post and nominate people), you should go and nominate 10 more blogs!!!

Here are the suggestions for the Award:

1. Put the logo within your blog or on your post
2. Pass the award onto 10 fellow bloggers
3. Link the nominees within your post
4. Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog
5. Share the love and link to the person whom you received this award from.

Waging the war against the flood....

Well, this was the weekend we rescheduled our camping trip because last weekend was thunderstorms, and tornado watches. We decided to reschedule AGAIN due to bad weather that was supposed to hit us Friday - Tuesday (at the latest). Good news is, it looks like it will be done by Monday (and our power has only flickered)! Bad news is.....

1. Since 3 am last night we have had 4 tornado warnings from all different storms
2. we had 3 boys in our room since 3 am
3. it has not stopped raining since last evening
4. there is flash floods all over Western Tennessee
5. Church is canceled tomorrow because of the weather :(

How bad can flash flooding be??? Here are some pictures to show you.... (borrowed pics from friends)

One of the 7 reported sinkholes in Jackson

Car hops will have to use boats rather than skates

Look at the buried cars!

A steakhouse in Humbolt just miles from our house

My friend's backyard

This sink hole has only gotten larger as the storms keep coming

We are supposed to get even more storms through the night and all day tomorrow. Please keep our area in your prayers!