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Tennessee Flood 2010

As most of you may know by now, Tennessee was hit with a devastating flood.

Besides being scared out of my mind over a tornado warning in our area and our sink hole in the backyard filling to a good 4-5 feet of water, we're fine. Unfortunately I can't say the same for the people across the street.

Daddy & Jacob checking our new waterfront property.

Here is Jacob passed out in the bathtub-- where me & the kids waited out the storm.

Here is what downtown Lebanon looks like on a normal day.

In fact, Miranda Lambert shot her music video here:




And here it was during the flood.





Pretty scary.

This storm was a wake up call, for sure. Mother Nature is not a force to be fooled with. She can strike fast and hard with little or no warning.

If you'd like to help you can visit: http://www.hon.org

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I've had so much to blog about lately, just not enough time. Hopefully I'll get a couple new posts up these next few days...

Monkeyin' Around

Look who's standing!

Of course I didn't snap the picture until she was starting to sit back down! But little Emmylou is now standing on her own without any help!

I've almost got my Newsboy hat pattern perfected. It's taking me WAY too long to get this pattern just right. I obsess over it for a day, then give up on it for a few weeks (or months...).







But it's almost there. Just a little more tweaking.

I've also added another hat to my collection. And of course I had to take Emma out and snap some pictures so I could list it in my Etsy shop. Here's a few shots we got:







In other news, my poor little man is sick with the stomach flu:( I'm hoping that nobody else catches it. Wishful thinking, huh?

Food, Inc.

I just finished watching the documentary Food, Inc. It has been on our "que list" for quite a while, and I've been impatiently waiting for it. So you can guess I was extremely excited when I found out that it would be on TV. I set my DVR to record it and eagerly watched it bright and early (Emmylou just loves waking up at the crack of dawn) the next morning.

Wow. What an eye opener. I was almost afraid to watch it because I knew I would never think about food the same again. I really wish we had more money to budget towards groceries each month. If we could afford it we would definitely eat all organic. I mean we buy some things organic, but not nearly as much as I'd like.

I've already done some research into local farms and much to my surprise I found some organic farms pretty close by. I found a cattle farm not too far away that sells range fed beef. They even have a website where you can purchase your meat online and have it shipped to you.

Watching this documentary really showed me how removed we really are from the food we eat. Do you know how it's made? Where it comes from? How it's raised? What it's fed? How the worker's are treated? I didn't.

Food, Inc. has left wanting to know a lot more. I've just purchased the book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. I'm hoping it will give me more insight into the food industry.

For any of you who are curious, I really recommend watching this film. I'm going to watch it again tonight, this time with Mike. I'm just dying to hear what he'll think about it ;)

This Moment

A single photo. No words. Capturing a moment from the week. A moment I always want to remember...