pre Gustav pictures

Just thought I would show yall some pictures of our house before the storm .
















And heres one of our little ones playing in the front yard. \

Gustav damage report in Rabalais country

Well here are some pictures of the tree that woke us up. I was able to get a chainsaw from a friend and cut it off of the house before the weather gets worst. Im allmost positive that it caused no damage except for a loose fence now and a stretched out gutter. wishing everyone well and we will keep everyone informed untill we loose power. We have allready lost cell fones.

Good Morning GUSTAV.

I just thought I would give everyone an update before we lose power. @about 5:10am I heard something so I got up and thought that it was the plywood that I had cut yesterday to cover my backdoor had fallen. So I opened the back door and to my surprise a small tree with about a 10 inch trunk had broken in half at about 4 or 5 feet off the ground , and came accross our fence and it is now balancing on our fence and gutter over my master bedroom. As of right now the only damage that I can tell is that its weighing on my gutter and pulling it down. As soon as the sun comes up so I can take some pictures Im gonna call some friends and get the tree cut and off the roof before it causes more damage. But just so everyone knows we are doing great.

Well here we go again.

This will be written for our extended family and also to vent my concerns. Its freakin crazy around here. as you all know HURRICANE GUSTAV is on its way. It seams to be like a hungry cajun looking for some gumbo or something they (hurricanes) seam to love Louisiana. Well we are all buckled down and waiting it out here in the Rabalais house. We have generator hooked up and ready to go we have 110 gallons of water stored in 55 gallon drums that I bought from the Coca Cola plant. We have food storage coming out of our .... well lets just say we have enough. contra-flow started at 4 am this morning for those leaving New Orleans. The word is that this one will probably be worst than KATRINA. I love the fact that 2 of our 3 kids are too young to know to be worried. I dont have any crazy stories about the way people are acting other than they are like a bunch of ants, just folllowing in really big lines. Ok so of course Im watching the news as I type this and just saw the projected path to come just west of our town. What does that mean for us ? Well that means that we will be getting the worst part of the winds and rain with estimated rainfall at 13 to 20 inches within 24 hours starting monday. We got an e-mail last night saying that we are only going to have Sacrament meeting this morning, so that we can continue to either get ready or leave which ever people are doing. Not many people that we know are leaving but the southern parishes are having mandatory evacuations. One of my brothers that live in Jennings brought his family to my dads in Mississippi. well please keep us in your prayers. I will update as I can.

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POTTY NEWS

Well about a week ago one of Brennan's friends came over and while he was here used the potty and Brennan saw him. Well it got Brennan excited about using the potty himself, and last thursday he informed us that he needed to go potty and he actually did. But even more shocking was this morning Kate says" I pee pee" so we took her to the bathroom and she actually pee-peed in the potty. We are so proud of both of them and shocked . other than that we are all doing ok and trudging the road of happy destiny.

Results from court

Well we went to court last Wednesday and I should have written earlier but things have been really busy. The judge decided to give the birth parents 3 more months to get thier act together. He really came down hard on the mother he said " YOU ARE PREGNANT AGAIN, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? " Her responce was it was an accident. He said "YOU WILL NOT DO THIS AGAIN TO ANOTHER CHILD I WANT A DRUG TEST RIGHT NOW, AND YOU BETTER HOPE THAT IT COMES UP NEGATIVE." Well it did she was crying saying that she had been clean for 7 months and why didn't anyone believe her. I wanted to just tell her " oh I dont know maybe cause you are an addict and people dont trust people like us untill we show them that we are seriously working some kind of program ." But un like me I kept my mouth shut and didnt say anything. So the good points in the situation are that we still have the kids for any where from 3 to 6 months. We would like to thank everyone for thier prayers and phone calls showing that you care. We love you all and adore your friendship.