Growing!

This was taken in October so I was around 11 weeks.

This was taken just a week ago so I was 19 weeks along. Its amazing how quickly I showed with this little "squirt" and how my boys keep telling me that "my tummy is getting bigger each day". On monday I have my 20 week ultrasound. I am excited to see the "squirt" growing inside of me, but I plan to not find out what this one is. As you, we too will be surprised when the "squirt" shows his/her face. Yeah...half way there....just about:)!!!

Wednesday~October 12th, 2011

.....A day I will never soon forget!!

My sister Joy and Jayla were home for the weekend and came early on Tuesday night. We(including my mom) made plans to eat up at Five Loaves Cafe on Wednesday for lunch. Wednesday morning Liam kept saying Jayla's name so I decided we might as well head over to my mom's house early and let the kids play a bit before meeting uptown to eat at 11:30. We arrived at my mom's at 11am and when we got there Joy, Jayla and Mom were getting ready to walk up to the cafe because it was just SO BEAUTIFUL out!! What a great idea, we were in! So away we went with the kids on the laps of my mom and joy and I walking. We crossed over 421 and were just chatting away when..........thats pretty much all I remember........so let me tell you what I have heard from Mom and Joy! "when all of a sudden a truck came out of nowwhere(noone heard it) and hit me from behind, causeing me to lurch forward with my feet flipping up over my head and me coming down onto my head on the road. I guess I went somewhere arounnd 15 to 20 ft forward flying thru the air landing on the back and left side of my head. I was out if it. I didn't respond to my mom, but I did move my legs and I did tell my mom to get off of me, although she was NOT on me. My sister Joy instantly went running for a cell phone because neither of them had one on them(I did in my butt pocket, but they didn't know that). Joy was able to find a cell phone from a guy driving on a different road in francesville and called 911. Ambulance arrived, taking care of me, then the EMT arrived taking care of me. Police took a report and all the while I lay there unaware of what happened. Joy thankfully got my cellphone eventually and had all the numbers she needed to get a hold of nick at work, family, friends, etc to start praying. I came around for a moment and remember them saying "do we pick her up by helicopter at the West Central School parking lot, or do we go to the parking lot behind Parkview Haven?" Then I was out again. I guess it was at least an hour before the helicopter arrived and once again I came around and opened my eyes and for the first time recognized that I was awake. I saw Joey Schlatter on my left and then I looked right and saw Alex Leman and I placed my hand on his arm. I was being carried....to the helicopter at this point(I only know this because of pictures my dear grandma took....thanks:)). I remember them putting me in the helicopter and I remember the guy sitting beside me wearing a blue outfit and a white helmet. I also remember them asking me at one point if I was pregnant(and I didnt' know the answer then). But while in the helicopter I remembered that I was indeed pregnant and I reached over and tapped the "blue" guy on his shoulder and told him I was indeed 11 weeks pregnant to which he responded, yes I know!! I also remember them asking if they could cut off my clothes. Then I was OUT again. Don't remember a single bit of the flight, and I don't remember going into the hosptials trauma unit at South Bend having a CAT scan done, and a chest x ray done.

....now to what I do remember and the rest of my recovery....

I dont' know how long I was at the hosptial before I came around, but I asked the nurse, can I please just move my head a little(I was strapped to a backboard and my neck was in a brace where I could NOT move it even an inch). the back of my head was in so much pain and I wanted to get off the back of my head. The nurse told me "I am sorry, but we can NOT move you until the results of your CAT scan come back with no trauma to your skull or neck". I just layed there praying and pleading with God to please let them be ok so I can move my neck. Not long later the nurse came in and said "would you like to get off that board now". I instantly said "did my CAT scan come back negative?" To which she replied "yes, it did". I know I smiled from ear to ear and I remember getting a bit choked up in my throat. I was so thankful I could move my head and get off that tender spot on the back of my head. I was diagnosed with a severe concussion, sheering of the brain(meaning the two hemisphere's in your brain shift and slide against each other), a hematoma, a small laseration on the back of my head, and some cuts and scraps. Soon nick arrived and boy was I thrilled to see him. Tears whelled up. I dont' know why but in my mind I wasn't sure if he would come or not? Silly I know, but its what I thought, so when he walked in I was so glad to see him. We huged awhile and talked some and soon my mom came in. Tears filling my eyes again(I cry now just typing it!), she soon left and my sister Joy came in and once again tears filled my eyes. I was so thankful to see them and to know I wasn't seriously seriously injured in the neck or skull, that I was indeed able to move!!! Soon I had word that my inlaws and sister in law where on their way bringing the two oldest boys with them. They had picked them up from school. It was also really nice to see Aaron Zellers(who is a doctor at Memorial) stop in and give me some hope. Then my boys came into the unit with my in laws and man...it was hard to see their sad little faces. Elijah just wept and layed his head on nick's shoulder. I could barely take it. Caden just looked at me. I kept reassuring them that mommy was ok and they would be ok too. Oh its sure not how I ever invisioned having to have my kids see me. That was hard!!

I was eventually moved up to a different floor and off the trauma unit where I stayed for the next three days. When I got to my room I don't remember how I got to my bed, but before long I had a roomful of people who loved me and who cared and wanted to see me. My brother in law Austin and his wife arrived, I saw Kelli my sister in law then too. Jacki Huber and Rachel(my best friend from when I was just a little girl) arrived and even though I was so grateful for everyone who came, I was thankful that they all talked amoung themselves. It was hard to take it all in, but I'll NEVER forget Rachel who sat by my bed, leaning over the bed rail and just sitting there, talking every once in awhile, but it was so nice to have one face to concentrate on and not a lot to concentrate on because it hurt my head to look around the room and focus on so much. Oh I was so grateful they were all there, but with the head trauma I had, it was hard to focus. I don't know how long Rachel sat there, but she didn't move until it was time to go home with her mom Jacki. Soon the room was quiet and everyone had gone home except nick of course who never once left my side except to go get me some clothes to leave the hospital in. The next three days were filled with medications, and trying to eat, and trying to get up enough to sit on a camode right next to my bed to go to the bathroom. Life seemed so hard, and I was so dizzy that I could not stand up alone without falling over. Every up and down motion of that bed made me sick. I would try to eat, but it would come back out. I usually just had nick order whatever he wanted and I would take a few bites here and there. I think cream of wheat became my best friend food wise. After the first day a doctor came in(whom I did NOT like) and told me I could go home. I was so confused?? How in the world would I go home like this? I couldn't even stand up alone? Thankfully I didn't go home that day. Instead a PT was ordered and he came up finding out very quickly that I couldn't even get myself out of bed, dress myself, or walk to the bathroom that was 5 steps away. So PT didn't come back for another two days. My dizziness was not letting up on the second day so they decided to have an MRI done to check the inner ear. Inner ear supposedly was fine, but they did find a small Fracture in my skull on the right side along with a small outward bleed. Meaning it wasn't bleeding into my brain which was a good thing. So they added that to my diagnosis. The next day PT arrived and began working with me, helping me to the bathroom, getting dressed, etc. By the afternoon I was being discharged. We made it to the truck and all the way home without me puking!! I started out in the front seat of nick's truck but by the time we were home I was in the back seat laying down. It was a rough ride home!

For the next week I lay around and I'll be honest, depression, sadness, loneliness set in. The weather was cold and windy out and I couldn't open my blinds because the light was so bothersome. I sat in my dark room what seemed like for way to long. I had to have constant help to the bathroom, I had my food brought into me in my room, I felt so helpless!!! It was so hard. Nick needed to go back to work(they were so gracious enough to let him have it off to help me) but he needed to go back. So then I needed someone to come in and help me. My sister joy came in several mornings and my dear cousin Alisha came in every morning I think for a week to get liam out of bed, and ready for my mom to pick up every morning by 9:30am. I was given orders to not read, do computer, watch tv for at least a week. Nick was trying to be so sweet by turning on some soft music for me, but man...I had to have it shut off quickly. The boys were so well taken care of. On weekends they were with nick's parents and on weekdays they were with my parents. At one point I remember nick coming into our room, flopping down on the bed and sighing. I lay there so helpless, so sad, feeling so sorry for him. He was so exhausted, he was doing so much, he was taking care of the house, the kids, me(who was very needy) and yet he did it because he knew he had to. Man, I love my husband and it sure showed me how much he loves me(us)!! I am SO blessed to have Nick in my life!!!

Anyway, PT started coming to my house, and I was able to finally get into a chiropractor for an adjustment and things started looking up!! My neck was so badly jammed into my skull that the first two vertebra's nerves were so pinched and the one deals with the inner ear(your equalibrium) and the other nerve with sinuses. After several adjustments, and the PT doing a Inner Ear Crystal test and finding out that the crystals in my inner ear had moved and displaced to the canals of my ear. So they did this thing where I layed down on my bed with my head hanging upside down over the side of my bed and checked dizziness then rotated me ever so slightly and let me there awhile, then rotated me again, leaving me there in that position for a bit and finally sitting me back up. I guess they were moving the crystals thru the canals and trying to put them back into the inner ear? I was not to lay down at all that day until bedtime, nor move my head side to side rapidly, or bend over at the waist. That day my sciatic nerve started bothering me and by the end of the day I could not walk across the room by myself. I was in some pretty severe pain and I couldn't get comfortable. I just wanted to lay down so I decided to go to bed early. So yeah, that ear stuff, it all sounded pretty fishy and I was so skeptical!! But I tell you what.....its amazing how God made our intricate bodies and he allows us to learn about them to the point of knowing about crystals in our inner ear and how to correct them if they get displaced because for the first time since my accident that night when I went to lay down the room did NOT SPIN!!! I even got up twice that night to use the bathroom and the room NEVER SPUN!!! This all took place last tuesday!! Less than a week ago! I have not had the room spin since, I have been up feeling good. I continue to have chiropractic care and the PT is still coming into my home now for my sciatic nerve and the spinning issue they have decided is good and no longer needs their attention(but if for some reason those crystals come undone again I am to let them know if I ever feel dizzy again). I am currently still bothered by the sciatic nerve but am doing daily exercises and stretches for that. I am going to be cooking my own meals this week for the first time, and I drove our van on Friday night (nick was with me) for the first time. I am actually almost 100% myself!!

I am so TRULY blessed!! God has done so much for our family! He spared me from death, he preformed miracles after miracles on me. I realize I could have had broken bones, paralasis, brain damage, my 11 week baby could have died, and you name it....but I don't!! God is not thru with me yet. He obviously has something more for me to do, and perhaps that is just to be a mother to my boys, or a mommy to the new little one in April, but whatever it is, I am so grateful and so thankful that I am doing well. It is so humbling to have meals brought into you week after week after week, to get cards every day in the mail, flowers sent to your home, prayers being poured out on your behalf, friends offering to watch children, drive you places, come clean your house...oh the list goes on. It truly brings tears to my eyes!!

THANK YOU GOD ~ WE ARE SO VERY BLESSED!!!!

All Because of God!!

No, I did not win something with Prego and become famous and get my picture on the Prego jar:). (like one dear friend of mine thought:)).....

However, I am prego and as you can see from the lid on this jar that I am due on April 30th !! Praising God for revealing himself in this all!!

Attempting to......

**UPDATE ON BOTTOM**

do what always seems so impossible....and that is potty train!!! He went on the big boy potty for the first time on Sunday morning before church and sunday after church. Then today(monday) we had to travel to lafayette so he wore a diaper most of the day. Then after his nap around 5pm we stuck on underwear. He was very excited and he was constantly sitting on the potty to try and squeeze out some pee. Why you ask would he be that excited??? You see I have a large ziplock baggie of tootsie rolls sitting by his potty chair and anytime he goes even a little I reward him with it. I know, I know...bad for the teeth, but hey, its working. I think he went a total of 6 times tonight and even a couple times outside in the grass:). He did however have two accidents in his underwear as well, but that is to be expected. His tiny little rear with "Mater" on it.

And happy to show you his front side too:).

I'll keep you posted as to how well this goes. I tried back when he had just turned two and gave up after two days. It was a disaster. Now that he is over 2.5 I figure we need to get this done:).

**He continue's to pee on the potty with an occasional accident. He had one accident today and that was the first accident since Wednesday, so he is doing really well. Last night we had to be up at the school for something and Liam cried when I told him we were going bye bye and he needed to put on a diaper, so I decided to leave him in his underpants....he went potty when we arrived at the school, after we were done eating at the school, and then right before we left to come home...and he did awesome!! No accidents!!! Yeah, this is going along so smoothly!! Im glad I waited till he was over 2.5 years old to do this because it hasn't been a huge deal at all. The ONLY bad thing is, is that he has yet to go #2 on the potty and he waits till it is bedtime and he has his diaper on to do that duty.**

Old Tyme Boys!

Liam was quite the handful that day as we tried to get pictures done. I was literally sweating bullets by the end of it, because I was terribly embarrassed at the way he was acting and throwing a fit!! Caden cracks me up on his "not trying to smile" face. And well Elijah couldn't get it out of his head that he didn't have to look "mean", but that he just didn't have to smile. Oh what an experience!

Canning Salsa

I am terribly upset with myself that I didn't get more pictures of this event, but alas I have only one picture!! This morning Erica Gutwein and Maddox came over. The boys played so nicely while Erica taught me how to can my own salsa. We used my mother's tomatoes, my green peppers, bannana peppers and we used Erica's spicy peppers, cilantro, and garlic. She arrived at 9am and by noon she was walking out the door. We got a total of 14 pint size jars. Perfect. Now I can't wait to try it with some lime chips:). YUMMY!!!!

Thanks Erica!! Sure appreciate you showing me the ropes. Will have to do it again next year.

Canning Tomatoes

So my mom has always canned tomato juice as long as I can remember. Well, this week she is on vacation and told me to use her tomatoes, plus my tomatoes and can some juice if I wanted. So that is exactly what I did yesterday. For the first time I canned (by myself) tomato juice!!!!! Here they are all cut up and simmering away on the stove top. The larger pot I did twice.

The jars in the oven on the lowest setting getting warm for canning. Such an easy way to do it.Juice is ready to hit the stove again and bring to a boil. Got the spices in and it tasted wonderful!!
The finished result: 14 jars of my very own tomato juice. I started the whole process of picking my mom's tomatoes at 10:30 and by 3:30 I was finished!! They were all sealed too by the time it was dinner:). SUCCESS!!!

Labor Day Camping!

What a wonderful labor day weekend we had. It was extremely hot on Friday when we arrived. Saturday was beautiful out so we hit the beach and several (actually everyone at some point) went boating. The morning the adults took turns since the water was smooth and people wanted to ski. The afternoon was reserved for the beach and the kids tubing. Liam sure enjoyed the beach area. His diaper was FILLED to the rim with sand. YUCK!!

Us ladies had a nice time sitting in the sun while the men took out the older kids on the boat.

Saturday night we had a very intense lightning storm. Needless to say Liam was terrified of it. Soon though he fell asleep in this chair and I was able to tend to the other kids with s'mores. Thankful the storm went right around us and we barely got much of a sprinkle that night.

We went camping with four families. Westfall's, Gutwein's, and Leman's. We unfortunently were the ONLY couple with a tent. So here is our site! Gutwein's were right beside us and Leman's and Westfall's were across from us.

Sunday night the kids put on a skit for us. Can you guess what the skit was about?? It was pretty cute!

We were packing up and the entire weekend if liam wanted his blanket he had to stay in the tent with it. So while we were packing this is how I found liam....precious!!!

This is the kids...minus Laney. What a great group of friends these children are...and to think...soon they will be teenagers...oh how I hope their friendship lasts a life time!!

Looking forward to next year!!!!

Calling all green bean lovers.....

So if you are like me...you love green beans!! These are both from my garden and let me explain why. My dear mother gave me some green beans to plant and they are called Bush Green Beans. These are what are pictured on the left side of the picture. On the right side are what I was told to plant because they are nice and long green beans. However the seeds were two years old so I didn't get as many come up this year, but the ones that did...wow...check out that difference!! They are delish! Straight, long, sweet and crisp. Just the way a green bean should be! So if you plant a garden and you plant green beans, let me HIGHLY recommend Jade Green Beans!! And just so you can see exactly how long those green beans are...take a look at the next picture:)

Thats right folks....it is more than half the length of my forearm!!

So I realize that this is probably a boring post for most people(except those few garden lovers).....so I thought I would post a very funny picture. Caden came down for church on sunday determined to wear a tie. He came down with this outfit on and he was SERIOUS!! He didn't understand how we could chuckle at his outfit?? Cracks me up how he has his tie attatched to an unbuttoned collard shirt. That plaid stuff about makes me go cross eyed. So thankful he was happy to change his clothes for us.

Its time.....

...to return to school!! Elijah was way more excited than Caden was. I don't think Caden enjoys school nearly as much. Elijah has a brain alot like Nick...and can remember things so easily and is a smart boy! Im so proud of him and all he has accomplished with testing 6th grade level in reading and 5th grade math. Way to go!! My sweet Caden...you remind me alot of myself. You do your best, and you do so well at all you do buddy. I understand how hard it can be but you too are also smart. Not testing higher than your grade level, but thats exactly how I was. School never came easy for me and I can see that in Caden.
Nick stays home later on the "first school day" to make the boys breakfast and walk them to the end of the lane. They requested waffles for breakfast.

Elijah all ready...hair done and dressed...waiting for bus! I smile, because he is really becoming his own little man. He has requested that we not cut his hair(although I told him if it gets to his ear lobes...it will be cut). He asked for some gel, hair spray, a pick, deoderant, and some mouth wash for the new school year....oh how you are growing up. Im excited for this year and to watch you continue to grow!!

And my sweet little Caden....all ready...as ready as he can be....for his first day. He not long ago got his hair cut, but after watching Elijah's grow out...he has now requested that his hair grow long too!! Nick and I just smile at each other, cause he really does try to be like Elijah in certain things. He doesn't know it yet, but we aren't letting him grow out his hair to much....at least not as long as Elijah's is. It is long for him right now, and he is happy to style it each morning, but as soon as he starts complaining about doing his hair...we are going to recommend cutting it.

Walking down the lane....you will notice our "new pet" in the picture. This cat's name is Shadow. Our dog is no more....lead poisoning as nick called it:).

Bus is here....have a wonderful day! As I always tell my kids each morning after I give them each a kiss.... Have a good day. Obey your teachers the FIRST time, be a good example, and HAVE FUN!!!

I love you boys!!

Busy Busy Busy!!

So our busy busy time started on July 30th when the waibel family drove down to Tennessee for a mini vacation. We stayed at Wilderness of the Smokies and had a fun time in the sun and pool. This post is long, so I'll just highlight a few points as the pictures go on. This first picture is of the boys who got themselves ready to go ride a Monster Truck with Uncle Nate. They decided mohawks would be cool. We told them that was fine, but that we won't be wearing our hair like this for other times.
Nate and the boys on the truck!! It was empty that day so the guy took them around the track 8 times instead of 4 times and then sold us a cd of ALL SORTS of PICTURES for 25$. Great deal. Nate was able to pose the boys however he wanted.

Caden pretending to be run over!

Elijah pretending to be run over!

They each got to take turns sitting in the drivers seat for a picture too. Here is Elijah in the drivers seat. That truck is BIG!! Nate is a tall guy and he just barely is above the tires.

The next two pictures are nick and I's bathroom and bedroom at the condo. It was a suite with four bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Mom and Dad and Kelli and Nate got the rooms with bathrooms joined and the kids and nick and I got the bedrooms that had double beds and bathrooms across the hall. (Nick and Kelli played rock, paper, scissors for the rooms...kind of funny).

WHen we got there they were having a little craft area out back of our building so the kids got face paintings, decorated pet rocks, had snacks and drinks and got balloons. A storm blew in(with tiny amounts of rain, so it all got packed up and put away pretty quickly), but still the boys had fun.

So you ask what we did all day for 4 days??? We sat in the sun and we swam till we turned into prunes. They had 3 different water parks here at the site. Two of which were outdoors and one was indoors. We spent the majority of the time outdoors until we had all had enough sun for the day but still wanted to swim...then we moved indoors. It really was relaxing just sitting by the water with your feet in it to keep cool, and watching the kids play and catch waves(in the wave pools).

We would come back each day for lunch at the condo and while we got lunch ready this is where you could ALWAYS find the kids....sitting on the couch watching tv.

At first liam was a bit scared, but after a couple times down the water slides with nick he was saying "gin" over and over. He really did love it!!

The indoor park had this surf pool so Elijah, Avery, Caden and Nick all took a shot at it. I only have a picture of Caden and Nick....Elijah fell right away(and lost his britches) so no picture for him.

Liam loved the small kiddie pools with slides too. He was brave. He even would lay on his back head first and go down them. Silly boy!!

Nick standing and surfing. He actually had to sign a waiver/release form to do this(incase he would get hurt). It took him two trys and he got it!! Good job babe!

We returned from vacation on Wednesday evening. I basically had time to get things put away and laundry washed, and then it was time to think about our next event in the family. Nicks brother Austin got married on Saturday to an amazing girl named Karis!! Yeah....its nice having another sister on the waibel side!

Rehersal practice on Friday night. Don't they just look adorable in their coordinating outfits. Karis's dad is the pastor at Faith Baptist so he actually had the service for them on saturday.

Rehersal dinner...it was good food!!

The big day and these kids were so excited. Elijah and Avery passed out programs at the door and then Avery ushered in Great Grandpa and Grandma Wyss and Elijah ushered in Grandpa and Grandma Waibel. Caden and Alivia were ring bearer and flower girl. To cute!!!

Our family with Austin and Karis...its nice the kids finally get to call her "aunt Karis" now.

The very beautiful couple!! We are so glad to have you as part of the family Karis and we wish you and Austin a beautiful, happy life together as one!!

Garden Progress!

Well, its July and we are finally getting produce from our slow starting garden. We lost our tomato plants a couple times to deer, but after using Liquid Fence we never saw another plant uprooted or eaten down to the soil. Our tomato plants are just now getting tomatoes on them, but we are sure enjoying some of the other items. Our broccoli never did anything thus it was uprooted and we planted another 2 1/2 rows of beets so those are just coming out of the ground(I planted them on June 28th). Figure it will be nice to have a second harvest of those. We have almost eaten all the khalarbi (we have two left) and boy have they been good. We had our first pick of green beans last night and those were put on our lettuce salads and our shrimp packets on the grill. We also picked a zucchini which there will be plenty more of those coming soon!!! We have harvested lettuce(which was a last minute plant cause my mother had left over seeds) and we have cut it twice now. We have all eaten at least one a piece of the banana peppers and Im thinking I might get to pickle them if they keep coming like they are. We also ate one green pepper in our shrimp packets last night....yummm!!! Our rhubarb did NOTHING!!! Didn't even come out of the ground!! Guess I'll replant rhubarb next year. Our 4 cucumbers we planted we thought died and so I replanted 12 seeds and out of those 12 seeds 2 came up!!! REDICULOUS!! Well, those 2 new plants just died again last week, but to our shocking surprise the original plants are still alive and so we have 2 VERY LATE cucumber plants. In fact we have one little tiny cucumber coming and about 4 flowers...so we might be lucky to get a cucumber this fall:). Well, thats my update on the garden front. Here is a picture of our garden as of today:)
(starting at right is where khalarbi was, then its green peppers, green beans, 3.5 rows of beets, banana peppers, okra, lettuce, yellow and green zucchini, tomatoes and cucumbers)

I just simply love this!!!

June 20th, 2011

At 8:30 am a storm came rolling in. It woke me up, but thats probably because for the past month we have had some nasty storms here and quite frankly have been pretty serious, so I was thinking...this one sounds like the others. I was about seconds away from getting all my kids up and in basement, but decided to just wait it out. Storm was over and Elijah noticed a tree out back on the ground. We ventured out to see what tree was down. Needless to say, we didn't have one, nor two, but 4 tree's that I could tell were visibly damaged. My heart sunk as I noticed that part of some tree's were atop the treehouse as well. I could NOT tell if the treehouse was damaged or not.
This large tree had its top removed thus taking out the tree's in its path as it fell. So if you look closely you can see two other skinny tree's that were broken off on the tops too. This large tree top also took off the top of the treehouse's tree so now our treehouse sits on a tree that is all sunny and broken apart. Which you can see in the picture below how the top of the treehouse tree is missing.

Here is what we saw when we walked outside to check on treehouse.

My dad, brother, grandpa, sister joy, nick and I all cleaned it up one afternoon. We got the majority of it done that afternoon, but my dad and brother had to come in with the backhoe and remove the top limb that was still attatched to the top of the tree on the treehouse tree. The picture below is of what we got finished the first day and you can also see the large log hanging above the roof (this is what had to be removed with the backhoe).

We are thankful it wasn't any worse. The treehouse needs a little attention. We have a hole in the roof and some siding is torn, but for now the kids still play in it. The actual tree is not nearly as straight as it once was so we will find out in a few years if the root system got torn up if the tree starts to die in a few years. If so, not real sure where our tree house will end up at??

Need some wood anyone??? We have an abundance of fire wood now. Its sad to look out back at our woods and see SUN shinning brightly thru it. When all work was said and done we ended up with 5 tree's damaged or uprooted in from this storm. And yes that is not counting the two tree's we lost prior to this storm in another one of our nasty storms this past spring. Im praying for some nice weather the rest of the year thru. No more straight line winds and please no more tornado's!!