Tornado Warning

When we moved to Memphis, several people warned us that the spring would be full of tornado warnings.  They begin testing the tornado sirens every day at noon around the first of the year and we had our first serious scare in late January.  The sirens were going off around 10pm and the news showed the warning going right through our area of town so we decided we needed to head to the closet.  Only problem was the closet was FULL of boxes from our move.  Ryan and I unloaded a little section of the closet so we could fit and then we went to get the kids.  They were so confused!  Annie came down to join us – complete with her Tornado preparedness bag which included all of her important things/documents, diapers for the baby, etc.  Good that someone was prepared – I didn’t even have on shoes!  Reason #1001 why we love Annie.  We stayed in the closet for 15 minutes or so until it had passed through our area and then headed to bed with plans to deal with the boxes (that were now all over my office floor) the next night.  Wouldn’t you know we got a call the next morning that we had a showing that day at the house so Annie and I had to quickly reload the closet.  Ryan got the good end of that deal! 

Here we all are hunkered in the closet with Ryan watching the TV with one foot in the closet.