To be continued...

I meant to put pictures up of our flooded apartment as many of you have asked about. The picture of the pool tells you how much rain we got that night. It was empty in the yard before the rain. This is the morning after.

Landlords have never come by to check it out, so we wrote them a letter telling them that we were disappointed in their lack of response as we had been more than kind and that we would no longer be living here as of May 31st. We can't for everyones health sake. And we wrote another letter last night with our half months rent, stating that since we no longer rent a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage apartment but instead rent a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, no car garage and our kids are on higher doses of medicine due to their neglegence, we feel we are being fair.

We will see. We are still waiting on a go ahead from the seller's bank to forgive them of their back payments in accepting the offer we made on the house. Our lady thinks it shouldn't be an issue, since the bank set the price for the house and we are actually offering alittle more than they need so that they can help us out at closing. She said when the bank give the green light, it should only take about a week to do appraisal and home inspection and then we are set to close on it. so we are just hoping for a May 21st closiing date still, so we have a place to live when we are out of here. Please pray for us as we are a little nervous about the timing being so close. We have many people who have offered to take us in, but it would just be so nice to just move into a house and not 3 or 4 different places. We will see. God is in control.

Ok, back to the race. here is a picture of the kids in their gear waiting in our seats. and the other picture is the view of the track from our seats.

These pictures are from the souvenier trucks and the one Lowes had that offered the kids the chance to build. We also saw Mr. Sparkplug. yahoo!!

Lets see, after the trucks took the drivers around the track, they were dropped off near their car and a few minutes of checking with their pit crew leader before the "gentlemen, start your engines." I have video of that too that i will post when I learn how. then they took one slow lap around the track before the green flag. Once the green flag dropped, it was so fast and loud. I wore a white Lowes shirt and at first, when I noticed the little bits of black, I thought it was just dust. Upon further lookiing, it was bits of tire from the cars going by.

Jimmie did really well in the race, finishing 2nd and Kyle did really good by finishing 3rd. Carl Edwards won it and he is the guy who does the backflip off his car after winning the race. Watching the pit stops was cool as well as the victory spin out. It was something I think we all agree we would do again!! Here are more picts of the race. Enjoy!!

A list of the guys in order of appearance:

Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. , Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer (from Emporia, Ks), and Jimmie drinking a gatorade along with my messed up picture of him in his truck!

Pit stop!! And Nathaniel listening to Jimmie and his crew chief, Chad, talk on a special headset we rented. They seem to be pretty good friends! At one point they were joking about how Jimmie needed some of those fuzzy dice in his car. :-)

The race cars and the kids half way through going to get dippin dots. as well as the finish and our family picture that someone took for us!!

Thats about it. This week is both of the kids field trips to the OKC zoo. Chris' corporate day off is Tuesday, so he is going with the 1st graders and I will be accompanying the kindergartners on their trip. Then, the 10th is Hannah's party with her school friends. Her actual birthday will be friday the 16th. then we will be making a trip home to Kansas to see leah graduate from college and attend her and Alex's wedding shower. When we get home, we will hopefully close on the house and it will be the kids last week of school. I am sure the month will fly by!!
Until I get a chance to write again, love you all and hope to see you soon!!