Hurricane Ike

The last thing any new parent or anyone for that matter wants to deal with is a hurricane...well...Peyton will be a week old tomorrow and we will be celebrating her birth by evacuating. Craziness!

We have been monitoring the storm and since it keeps changing and inching closer and closer to Galveston we have decided that the best thing for us and a week old baby is to leave. Some friends, Luis and Amy, brought over dinner tonight and Luis was gracious enough to stay and help John start putting up the storm boards and Amy watched Peyton as I started to pack. I have no idea what John would have done without Luis's help and we are so thankful for their servants heart. After getting all of our boards up, John headed over to my mom's to help her put her storm shutters up and then came back to finish up preparations at our house. I have been packing everything for Peyton, Titus, me and John and making sure we have all of our important documents etc for an evacuation. We packed up the car tonight and amazingly everything fit. We just have to put the pack n play that is set up in our room (Peyton sleeps in our room at night for now and naps in her room until I get fully recovered) and then we are set.

We will be heading out in the morning to Katy to stay with John's mom which should be far enough inland to just have some heavy rain and wind but nothing too bad. My mom and Shannon are also evacuating to Katy. We will keep everyone posted and please pray for us and Peyton as we evacuate. We have established a really great routine in our house and we have all been doing well, I just pray that I don't get too stressed and that Peyton adjusts to the temporary change. Also, please pray for everyone on the Texas Gulf Coast that will be affected by the storm.

This will for sure be a story to tell Peyton when she is older.....