rain

There is something so relaxing about rain. It is raining tonight, and i love it. ok so i would not love it if i was driving because LA drivers and rain are..... well lets just say not something you want to experience. But i am not driving, i am at home under a large quilt, getting ready to go to sleep to the sound of rain. it also makes it feel more like fall or winter instead of the 90 degree weather we have been having. i love the rain! it rains so rarely in LA it's nice to have these times as long as you don't have to go out. if you have to drive you need to add twice as much time to your travel time because LA drivers get crazy and scared with just a water on the road. kind of funny if you are not out there in it. walking in the rain is another thing all together. one of the things i like to do the most is walk in the rain. it reminds me of college. i went on so many walks in the rain in college, getting soaked but loving it.

fires

The sky had this very strange orange glow all day. The sky that should be blue was full of smoke and you could barely see the sun. When I went out there was ash all over my car and it has been hard to breath even where I live.

The Fire Department reports "Around 800 residences -- ranging from multi-million-dollar mansions to modest prefabricated mobile homes -- have been razed by a series of wind-whipped fires that have erupted through the region since Thursday.

At least 50,000 evacuation orders have been issued and more than 35,600 acres (14,400 hectares) have been destroyed in the blazes, which have stretched from Santa Barbara to southeast of Los Angeles."

LA is always having fires but this time it seems worse then before because its more peoples homes then in the past fires. I don't remember it being this hard to breath before either. It has been very warm all weekend too in the late 80's and 90's. It was just a strange day.

Quilt

i wanted a new quilt so i decided to make one. i have never made one before but thought it would be fun. i had some friends that were going to the fabric district downtown one day so i went with them and got the fabric and started on it. i learned a lot and am pretty happy with my first quilt. it is simple but fun. i think i am going to have to do this more and maybe get a little more crazy with the designs. i have some fun ideas just not the time or money to do it yet. but i really enjoyed seeing a project like this come together. I am going to sleep so good tonight!

My Family is Exploding

So currently I have two beautiful Nieces and two very tough and handsome Nephews. But I am soon going to have many, many more.

My youngest brother Daniel and his wife Beth are expecting a baby girl in January.

My oldest brother Aaron and his wife Sarah are adopting two children from Ethiopian, prayerfully in the spring before the fall of next year.

Two weeks ago I found out that another one of my brothers Lucas and his wife Angela are due in July.

And last week my brother Cisco and his wife Jen called me and said they are due in June.

I also heard my sister Chrissy and her husband Daryl are going to start trying again soon.

Lots and Lots of babies! Crazy!