Thankfully we and our house are doing just fine. Apparently the entire Baton Rouge area is out of power, so I’m glad I don’t work for Entergy!

Gustav blew down lots of trees, but our little live oak out front made out ok - unlike our neighbors’, which is stuck at a 45 degrees angle.

We actually ventured out of the house earlier, driving to my parents’ and seeing dozens of downed trees along the way. Luckily none made the road impassable. I’d have some pictures for you, but I was driving.

I think we’ll be heading to bed early tonight, given that my iPhone only has so much juice, our daughtervis already down for the count, and there’s only so much you can do by candlelight.

Thanks for all if your prayers - they were certainly felt. Please continue to pray for our neighbors; we have already heard of several people whose homes were severely damaged.

No surprise here, but it’s raining outside. The wind is certainly gusty, which makes me glad that the trees aren’t anywhere near us.

The good news is that we still have electricity (as do my parents at their place). The unfortunate thing for us, though, is that apparently today is the day that my A/C decided to quit cooling well. It’s only about 74 degrees inside, so with the fans it’s not bad, just annoying.

If anyone happens to have some spare freon that they wouldn’t mind dropping off over here before hurricane Gustav makes landfall (in a couple of hours from now), I’m totally willing to pay you cash! Let me know if there are by takers.

So I’ve uploaded oodles of pictures from the previous two weekends’ trips to Wilmington, NC and Dallas, TX for our siblings’ separate graduations. We had a good trip, and now that I’m more recovered from being a bit ill and from traveling with a 10-month-old, hopefully there’ll be some more blog posts for your reading pleasure out soon. Until then, though. Enjoy some pics (most of which are of our cute little baby girl):

• UNC-Wilmington Graduation (my bro-in-law graduated)
• SMU Graduation (my sis graduated)

Congratulations to the graduates!

So Grace’s second cousin’s (my cousin’s son’s) first birthday was yesterday: Happy Birthday to Jude!

Jude is only three months older than my daughter, Grace. He has a rare disease called tuberous sclerosis (TS) and is headed, with his parents, this week to New York to try and see if the doctors there can help him out with the seizures that are one side effect of the TS. Please be praying for and thinking of them!