September, Ike, etc...

September was an interesting month, to say the least! We had Maddie's 1 year birthday party, which had a great turnout even though we were threatened by hurricane Gustav. A few family members had to cancel their travel, but that was about the only impact. I'm going to try to do a separate post with some birthday stuff in it.

Here is the track of where Ike was headed when we left town. There is generally a large margin of error this far out, but it was projected to make landfall just to the Southeast of us. Not a good prospect.

This is where Ike actually made landfall. As you can see by the wind field, it was quite a large hurricane! The center of the eye passed just to the East of our house. I believe it was about 10 miles away, which put our place well within the eye itself. Luckily we were on the left side of the eye, which is generally a better place to be than on the right.

Here are a couple pictures from the hotel in San Antonio. Gotta love that La Quinta allows dogs, but it got pretty comfy with two large dogs and a baby! It wasn't a very fun trip, to say the least. The second day we got there, Maddie turned up a double ear infection. After we got that treated, things started improving quite a bit... well, other than the category 2/3 hurricane (Ike) that was bearing down on our house!

Here is Maddie in the tub. The tub was really grimy, so we purchased this blow up tub duck, and I have to say, it worked out really well!

Here is Maddie in her portable crib provided by the hotel. She did OK in it, but not great. It kinda had a musty odor to it anyway, so she ended up in bed with us a lot.

After four nights in the hotel, we drove to Katy, TX, which is just East of Houston, and stayed with Cindy and Dan. They had power and were kind enough to take in a bunch of us refugees from Ike! We had a good time there! Here is Maddie and Mike at the Kings.

Here is Molly, Maddie, and Dan having a grand old time.

Maddie out playing with her Mickey Mouse walker.

We spent one night at Chris and Alene's house in League City since they had power and it was close to home. We got power on Wednesday and were back in our house that night. Here is Maddie having fun at their house.

Back home again! Maddie looks happy, what do you think?