So.... Des Moines is under water. The whole downtown is flooded and everything is closed today. They are sandbagging around here and shopping to get bottles of water and food. Grocery stores are packed. I think that our house will be safe because it is about 15 minutes to downtown and not near the river or lake so we should be good. (hopefully :) ) We are glad that we will get the heck out of here tonight and head to Madison. But.. we are scared to what we will come home too. We have had rain for the past few weeks and thunderstorms/tornados like you would not believe. Boats are floating on the streets instead of cars driving down the road. Crazy scene. We will be driving back to Madison/Oregon this evening when Chris is done with work for Courtney's graduation party and we thought that since we were there, we would have Lily's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese in Madison so nobody had to drive all the way to Iowa. It should be fun tomorrow. We haven't told her yet, though. When she gets excited or knows that she is going to do something fun, she refuses to take naps or go down at night to bed because she is so excited. She will find out where we are going this weekend, when we are on our way. And tomorrow on our way to Chuck E Cheese, she will find out that it is her party. Her real birthday isnt until Tuesday so she is a lucky girl who will celebrate a couple of times. Yesterday we went to Toys r us to get her a pool, I know, who needs a pool when it is raining all the time, but for a while yesterday afternoon, it got so hot that we bought her a pool with her Toys r us gift cert. When you register for geoffery's club, they send you a card for your birthday so she got three dollars because she is three. So.. when you walk in the door, and use the card, they know it is your birthday and announce it to everyone on the loud speaker. She also got a neat balloon and a crown. She had so much fun.
So.. off we go to Madison for the weekend. And pray that our house wont be flooded when we come home.