More Tornado Footage

Here is a little video a storm chaser posted on YouTube of a Kirksville area tornado. Fast forward to ~30 seconds to see the tornado, the first part is just them driving to get a good look at it.


CBS News had some additional footage as well:


Here are more pictures in an around Adair County:

Kirksville Tornado

If you didn't hear yet, we had several tornadoes touch down in and around Kirksville this evening around 6:00pm.  We had a couple of friends lose some personal belongings, but everyone seems to be OK.  We've found a few pictures online of some of the damage we thought we'd share.  Hopefully this will be Rohan's first AND LAST tornado!

We spent the tornado time in the dairy cooler in Hy-Vee.  All in all we spent about 15 minutes in the cooler with Rohan and ~20 of Kirksville's finest.  No one was panicking, but there were  a couple of insane kids that were really trying our nerves...:)

Mother's Day Pt. 2

I just wanted to make one more note about Mother's Day, OK, 2 more. First, my Dad made the funniest damn card I've ever seen. He couldn't find the Print Shop CD (as the card states in rhyme) so he made one. Classic Larry.

Outside of card:

Inside of card:

Second, Mara and I found some time between my packing and her studying to go for a run. It was only going to be about 2 miles at the most but it turned into an 8K! That's 5 miles for the conversionally challenged (I had to look it up too). We were tired from this weekend, so we didn't think it would feel that good, but it felt great! Rohan was awake for about half and then snoozed the other half. He just watches the trees go by, happy as can be. Occasionally he'll catch one of us looking at him and start smiling. It makes you forget you're running, so that definitely makes the run better...:) Here is a little chart from our Mother's Day 8K:

Hope everyone had a great Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

First of all, Happy FIRST Mother's Day to Mara!  She has been an amazing Mom for the last 4 month with juggleing school & Rohan (& me!).  Second, Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers in our family!  We've had so many additions in the last couple of years, the dynamic of the two families has changed dramatically, but definitely for the better!

Mara is spending Mother's Day studying for her Principles of Surgery final she has tomorrow, as well as the other 5 exams she has this next week.  Like I said, amazing she can juggle all that.  With only 11+ days unitl we move, we've been finding things to pack up, and trying to focus on what we have left to do before we leave here.  Mentally, we have already checked out of Kirksville, and we are already on our way to AZ...:)

Last week we had some outside time with Rohan, and judging by his face, he loved every second of it  We also have some comparison shots of him from the last few months because he was 4 months old earlier this month.  He got his second round of shots last week, and did pretty good.  Some loud screaming, but no fevers or reactions to the shots, so that was nice.  HIs 4 months tats are 13lbs and 23 3/4 inches.  He's still in the 15th percentile, which is more than we can say for the last 4 months!
While we were at the Dr.'s some lady hit our car.  She had 2 of the most nightmarish kids we've seen, and she said they were distracting her.  After seeing her kids, we understand...  Anyway, we should be able to get it fixes by the end of this next week, but we'll have to have a rental for Wyatt's wedding next weekend.  Yippee...  Oh well, what ever we have to do before we leave, we'll get done!

Here is Rohan taking a pull off Mara's Camelbak bottle:

Rohan Pics & Videos

We had some time so we'll post some pictures & videos.
Last Wednesday our Daycare had a BBQ for their 1 year anniversary and one of their workers sister came to take photos of the kids. She was GREAT! We got some really good pictures for just being a spur of the moment photo op. Some are repeats in color/B&W/sepia but she did a great job. If you're in Kirksville and need photos we recommend our photographer Crystal. Here is her MySpace page if you are interested.
After a long week, we took a trip to Columbia to walk around and visit some stores we don't have in the 'ville, namely everything but Wal-Mart. We also found a Jimmy Johns and soaked that up since we just found out there are NO JJ's in Phoenix! That should be illegal... We also found a pimpin' tux for Rohan to wear to our friend Wyatt's wedding next weekend. We'll have PLENTY of picture of him in that later. It was cool though, when Mara took him into the changing room I was waiting outside and one cashier kept looking in the fitting rooms, walking out, then looking at me. I felt a little out of sorts... After the 3rd time she came up to me and asked if my wife was coming out with the baby soon because they wanted to see him in his tux. I turned around and there were 4 cashiers all standing there waiting for them to come out. I've never seen anything like that before. When they came out, everyone, including customers were stopping to see him in his outfit. It was a lot of fun.
Enjoy the pics:


Rohan has fun at Jimmy Johns in Columbia:


Rohan Studies Chronic Ischemic Myocardial Infarctions: