Friends, Hail, and a few more Hours! :)

Today, the kids had many of the neighbors come over to play in their "park" that they'd set up. It looked like a tour of the backyard to me...but I wasn't out interfering, so who knows what it really was. It turned into a boys versus girls "fight," from which no one got hurt (amazingly, since it seemed pretty intense).

Then, tonight...the sirens started going off. There weren't tornadoes in our area, but there was hail the diameter of a nickel. It was coming down so hard that I couldn't even see an inch out of the window. We did go to our "safe place" for a little while, as there was a possibility of tornadoes forming. DH was still at work and his car really got hit. It was too dark to check for damage, but without a doubt there will be some. He is so depressed about this. Here they are in the bathroom waiting out the storm:
Finally, there are just a few more hours until my friends and I leave for Time Out for Women! I am so excited! This is what DH gave me for my birthday. We leave in the morning, drive to another city, grab a quick dinner, go to Time Out (a religious seminar for women), go back to the hotel (hot tub? dessert?), talking until we're exhausted, sleep?, breakfast at the hotel, more Time Out all day long, leave and come home to see how the husbands fared with all the kids! I was a little stressed today with all I needed to do before I could leave, but now that the kids are in bed...I am so excited. And, they are, too! C, especially, can't wait to have Daddy time. He almost couldn't eat or sleep tonight since he is so excited. LD doesn't understand and I think he will miss me the most, but he will be just fine. I'll have to post pictures after we return!