An Eventful Saturday

It was quite the eventful Saturday. First - we got a verbal commitment to buy M&M Dad's car on Monday when the bank is open - yeah! M&M Dad HATES anything to do with buying and selling cars, so we are glad this went reasonably quickly, thanks to Craig's List.

It then went from raining all morning to a sauna outside. (It was seriously hard to breathe). That didn't stop the troopers from having fun playing hockey in the driveway while we waited for our guests...

And then my best friend from college and her family stopped by for a visit on their long drive back to Colorado after visiting her family. I was sooooo excited because we haven't seen them in five years since we were in Colorado, and there have been 3 new kids since then!The kids squealed a lot over the little toad (or frog??) we found in the backyard.
And everybody had lots of fun riding the roller coaster in the basement after dinner.
It was such a wonderful visit.

We then started to relax for the evening when the tornado sirens started going off. We didn't have any signs of bad weather in our area yet, so we turned on the news and were surprised to see a hail storm heading straight for us. Well, our first thought was - "Crap, M&M Dad's car is parked in the driveway, and the buyers will probably walk away on Monday if it now has hail damage!" So we ran to the garage and did the world's fastest rearranging of bikes, snow blower, etc., so we could jam his car into the 3rd stall. When we got back to the TV, they were now projecting the storm to be heading directly towards our town. Now, we have gone to the lower level for many storms, but we have never been so concerned about a forecast that we woke up the kids to go under the stairs, until last night...
As it turns out, a freakish little pocket opened up and the storm went north and south of us. Thank goodness - because it appears to have been bad over near my work. I love this picture of the girls, though, because it totally exemplifies our kids. Starshine is asleep under the stairs (she doesn't even remember this happening), and Jr. Princess is wide awake playing with a flashlight thinking this is an awesome new adventure.

My goodness, what a day!