Hurricane Ike----One year later

Since the news is talking about nothing but the anniversary of Hurricane Ike, I figured I would join in too! It is hard to believe it was a year ago when Brinley, Clayton (in belly) and me evacuated to Arkansas for Kylie's wedding, while Jason stayed here to "hunker" down!

One year later, you can still see signs of the hurricane's destruction. Most trees are sadly leaning, boats are still abandoned along the shoreline in Galveston, and blue tarps are on roof tops! In fact, we just got our insurance check to fix our roof two months ago! It's a good thing Jason and his Dad did a quick fix to hold us over! Kemah Boardwalk is now open and fully functional after a long road of repair work to every restaurant and replacing every single ride due to flooding! We would drive by every week and see the sign to see what restaurants were opening up!

My parents neighborhood was very badly damaged. I was driving through last weekend and took these pictures of houses that are still destroyed. While most are rebuilding, a handful are abandoned or maybe insurance hasn't given them their checks yet either :)
We have been very thankful for a quiet hurricane season so far. Of course, we still have until November!

Nothing significant has been going on at our household....just very busy! Brinley does start her ballet/tap class and soccer next week, so I will have lots of post about then.