Our Sunday with photos

Dear Diary,

I'm back. I gave myself a bit of blogging hiatus even though it wasn't intentional, we were just busy with other things.

We are tired but well. We really could do with a break sometime but so far that hasn't appeared on the radar.

This afternoon proved to be interesting.

We were home from church about 1:00, Isla was down for a nap and all of a sudden the sky went dark and the wind really picked up. It was obvious another Colorado afternoon storm was imminent and this one was different.

The emergency alert system was launched across the airwaves (both radio and tv) warning of tornado sightings northeast of Denver. The next thing you know there was another one in our county! Yikes, the tornado sirens could be heard loud and clear but Colin and I still found ourselves gazing out of the kitchen window. Could we be in a worse position?

We weren't sure if we were over-reacting or not but we decided that tornado's are not meant to be taken lightly. Taking cover seemed like a good idea so we scooped up the cats, got Isla up from her nap and headed for the master suite closet. Of course as soon as we got there, the sirens stopped.

Anyways, we escaped without any injury or damage but at our "old" apartment (further southeast from where we live now) is where the funnel cloud came down and did severe damage to a shopping mall about 4 miles east. Thankfully nobody was injured, just property damage.

What a blessing!

If we still lived at our old apartment I would've been freaking out and we probably would've headed down to the garage area corridors.

That was the second Sunday tornado afternoon - the first was two weeks ago. Apparently June is a bad wet month in Colorado and the weather forecast predicts a few more storms for the coming week.

Onto happier thoughts.

We went for a short walk this evening with Isla and took a few photos to share. I'm sure Auntie Margaret wants to see how she has changed (sorry some photos are out of focus -it's just that kind of day!).

An attempt at a family photo