Flooding is bad!

No rain today!! Just hot and humid. Can't please us I guess. (could be I'm in pants and too stubborn to change) Well, we're much better than others though! Quite a few towns nearby are being evacuated due to flooding. Parts of CR are as well. Worst flooding since 1993! Down south (Iowa city areas) floods are expected to hit the 500 year flood plan!! I keep saying good thing we live on our little hill away from the rivers! And surprisingly our basement hasn't flooded too badly. Seems our landlord can fix things...sometimes. Our laundry roof still leaks even after he sent someone to fix it. Sad when the fixer guy didn't seem too promising that what he did would fix it.

Salem got his report card today. Straight A's!! GO Salem!! We can check his grades online, and a couple weeks before the last day he had a b+ in language arts. So very happy he was able to pull an A- out of it! His other A- was in music. The rest were A! He's very proud of himself, as he should be!

Kaden got his report card the other day. He earned all 4's and some 3's. No 2's! He didn't do down in any areas, only went up or stayed the same!

Kids played tennis today. Didn''t play for too long, 30 minutes or so. Kaden got sick of running all over the court to get the ball and got ticked at Salem. Rackets and balls started getting tossed, so that ended the game for Kaden. It was the middle of the day and quite hot!

Kaden decided when we were home to kick Salem's hand. That ended him in a time out on the stairs. After that he was to bring in the garage can and recycling bucket from the road. He was ticked at that and proceeded to kick the garbage can up the sidewalk and throw it around the porch. I warned him to chill. But when he went to get the recycling he was kicking it over and over. That ended up in a time out in his bed. What a hassle getting him up there. He chilled for an hour! Luckily he was cool and stayed in his bed for a little while of that, the rest he was out of his bed, but quiet, so I let him be.

The boys picked up their bedroom today. I'll have to take a picture to show Derek, I'm sure he won't believe me that I actually got the vacuum in there! It was a mess! It'll go back to being messy tomorrow after I do laundry and they don't want to put it away.

After that the boys played in the slip n slide while daddy took his new bike for a ride. I think they all had fun!

We drove around tonight looking at the flooding. Man it's bad!! We started at the train bridge downtown. The water in inches away from going over it. They parked a train fully loaded with rocks to weigh it down. Hoping it won't get washed away now, as there was fear it would before. We'll see in the morning if it's still there. We'll also see if the dam has spilled over yet. It's been holding off for now, but it's new estimate is dawn tomorrow morning. We also checked out the nature center. Broke the law and drove around road closed signs...so did others. Another section of the road we came across had water almost up to people's houses. And yet they sat there on the front porch, no sandbags. This flooding is amazing, but only cause we're not directly affected by it.

Check out http://www.gazetteonline.com/ for more pictures and updates on the flooding. I'll try and get the rest of my pics uploaded later tonight and send them out.