And the rain keeps coming down . . .

It has now been raining for the past 2 weeks -- pretty much continuously. Southern Minnesota has been in flood conditions and even up here in the cities we've gotten about 10 inches of rain in the past couple of weeks. Our lawn is loving it (and you can't even tell the difference between ours and our immaculate neighbors' -- another story for another day). It was a gorgeous weekend and we thought all was well until last night. I got home from work around 1245, had been asleep for about an hour when the rain started, the lighting started and the dreaded sirens went off again. So we got an impromptu pajama party at 2 am in the basement. Ken and I were desperately trying to sleep -- however Evie spent most of the time blowing spit bubbles and saying "dadadadada" and Luke kicked Ken several dozen times. Finally, we got back up to bed (luckily some hail but no damage) and about an hour later there was more -- and Luke spent the night cuddled up to daddy. And I think we're in for it again tonight . . . .

Here are a couple of my recent favorite pics of the kids:

Big brother planting a big wet one on little sis

Yum, prunes!

what, me, make a mess?

dog pile, literally