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It’s amazing how fast time goes by. We’re all doing well. The little one is moving around like crazy. That’s such a cool feeling. Sis felt it for the first time last night. I loved how her eyes lit up when she realized her little brother was kickin’ her.

Some of you guys might of heard of the flooding in the midwest. I live just outside of Cedar Rapids. I wasn’t in it or even near it really. But I had an that lost her house and two of my brothers are out of work because of it. When you hear of things like that on the news in other places, you tend to think… oh those poor people and move on with your day. When it’s so close and affecting so many people you know and places you’ve been… things that are special to you… that you remember from your childhood, it really hits you hard and it’s all you can think about it. J and I got married in the bar we met in a year to the day we met. It was flooded up to the roof. The A & W where mom and dad took us when were kids got flooded too. People who lived in the flood plain didn’t have a lot of money. Houses are a little less expensive there. I know because I looked at houses down there because they were decent houses for less money. It’s never been flooded like that so you can kind of see where a false sense of security would come from. Most of those folks don’t have flood insurance either. What insurance company is gonna give them flood insurance? So, people like my 75 year old aunt who’s lived in the same house for 35 years has lost everything she owns, her house, her furniture, her pictures, the blankets made by my grandma… everything just gone. And now what… now she lives the rest of her days in an apartment. Some of these people can’t even go back to their houses because they’ve been inspected and are said to be unsafe. But like most any other time some sort of disaster hits this area, people pull together, find strength from each other and in God and end up just fine if not better than before… It’s just so weird one weekend we’re downtown buying tomatoes and basil plants from vendors at the farmers market… the next weekend it’s all under water.