Last Homestudy Craziness!

We had our very last homestudy visit tonight! I'm a little sad because we have really enjoyed our homestudy, mostly because our social worker is the coolest ever. But I'm super excited because we are even closer to getting on the waitlist! Tonight was so crazy though. Here's how it went down. (I should say that I did not take that picture...some local person did and posted it to the local newschannel website)


We started our visit in the living room. Isabel had just woken up from her nap so she was a little clingy and whiny. We finally convinced her to play with her legos and she was okay. Then we start noticing the wind blowing outside and super dark clouds hovering over. We kept on talking but then we started hearing the wind and a ton of rain. We all managed to stay calm and meterologist Brian decided to check the radar. Well, he saw a GIANT RED circle right close to us and said, "wow, this looks pretty bad." But I mean it's the summertime and we always get thunderstorms and we definitely needed the rain. As we kept going on with the visit, the lightning and thundering starting picking up ...so much that when it CRACKED right outside the window our social worker and Isabel both jumped closer to the other end of the couch! At this point we stop to really look at the trees. They are like bending over and twigs and branches are being thrown all over the yard and against the windows....the front glass door is being pulled open on its own. We close the front door and lock it. We all stand up to really look out the back and we notice this weird brightness outside and hail and then see swirly gusts and trees bent so far over that we thought they might crack. At this point we all said, "LET'S HIDE!!!" So, we all ran to our bathroom since we don't have a basement! Brian continued to check the weather and looked outside while we continued to answer homestudy questions in our bathroom while I sat on our toilet holding Isabel and our social worker leaned on our sink! Haha, it was really kinda funny. Finally it all subsided and we went back to the living room. Apparently it was reported that "rotations" were spotted in our area and a tornado warning was in the county next door. Craziness! Either way we are FINISHED with our homestudy!! I just have to go pick up some more paperwork to turn in next week!! YAY!!!