New Roof...And Just in Time

We have known for some time now that our house was going to need a new roof. We have been putting it off for the last year, I guess in hopes that the need would just go away. We really did not like the idea of spending that much money at one time. Well, this last week we finally bit the bullett and had it replaced. They showed up yesterday morning at about 7:00. Needless to say we WERE NOT awake. We were awake at every other hour of the night, but had all finally gone to sleep to only be awaken by the sound of gunfire. Or what sounded like gunfire. It really felt like we were in the middle of a war zone as they started ripping off all the old shingles. So, we loaded up the kids and spent the morning at the zoo. It was a surprisingly cool morning, which made it very nice to be walking around the zoo. Kadence had a blast and I think Kaison did too!! He already knows what a monkey says..."Ahhh, ahhh, oohhh, aahhh." He is learning to do that really well. After we got some lunch at Chic-fil-A we were all ready for a nap. Reluctantly we went home to try to get some rest. Kadence was so warn out that she actually slept for 2 hours despite the nail guns going off above her. Micah and I on the other hand had headaches after 2 hours and so we decided to head back out to kill some more time. The guys finally decided to call it a night around 8:00, just to wake us up again this morning at 7:30. We are so glad that they finally got it done. About an hour after they got everything cleaned up and moved out a HUGE storm below throught Edmond. I think we had winds up to 70 mph. It probably only rained for 30 minutes or so, but with the old roof we would have standing water in our living room right now. Lucky for us everything is dry. I just hope we don't already have wind damage up there. Wow - this is getting long. That kind of sums up the last few days for us!! We are gearing up for a busy weekend and then looking forward to going to Texas for a few days next weekend!!

Here are the pictures from the zoo!

Oklahoma City Zoo