Bad weather...so Daddy builds a fort indoors!

As many of you may know by now, Atlanta had horrible weather on Friday evening and Saturday all day with tornadoes (22 in GA on Sat.) and hail storms. We were very lucky and experienced only one hail storm and suffered no damage other than smaller limbs and branches down. But, the hail was HUGE. Derek was like a little kid glued to the windows in the basement watching the hail fall - yes, I know - you are supposed to steer clear of windows during these storms. Feel free to remind Derek of this too! So as soon as the storm passed, Derek ran outside to investigate the awesome hail that was left in the wake of the fast moving systems and found several pieces of hail near 2.5 inches in diameter. (Don't worry, we took pictures below for the skeptics. And Derek went so far as to put some into the freezer for future "showings.")






At any rate, Hatcher was wound so tight and wanted OUT of the house. We had originally scheduled to celebrate Uncle Ben's 32 birthday (March 12), but with the on-going severe weather all day, we canceled the afternoon at G'ma and Tom's house and tried to keep Hatcher's need for running about under control. So Derek built a fort out of blankets and an assortment of chairs. Hatcher wanted everyone to get inside. At one point we were even using the bar on Aidan's exersaucer to support one of the walls so we could all be under the "tarp" with Hatcher. That fun lasted all of 30 min (a fairly decent amount of time for a 2 year old)! So when the weather finally cleared, we all went to have Mexican food with Uncle Ben to celebrate his birthday. And Hatcher danced the night away to the Latina music while eating chips, sipping on diluted sweet tea and practically running in circles. Man, boys have SO much energy. Happy Birthday Ben!