I woke up to some unexpected news.  Klein schools were closed today because of the huge rain storm that dropped 16 - 20 inches of rain over all of Houston last night.  So Kristan stayed home with Anna Kate and so did Andy.  Mommy's work was closed so she stayed home with GGM, GGF, Barbara and me.  Barbara and I walked the fence to see how how the water was in the ditch behind our home.  It was very high, high like I have never seen.  Another ten feet and it would have been overflowing.  We were using a large umbrella to keep us dry.

Three times we went out to check on the water level in our ditch.  It had dropped each time.  At 6pm i was still flowing pretty quickly but it looked to be only two feet deep where it was at least ten feet deep this morning.

 7am.  Very high fast moving water in ditch behind our yard.

 6pm.  Much much lower water level, still moving quickly.

Same ditch at 6am...

...and at 7pm.

This picture is of Mimz beautiful park taken early in the morning by mounted cameras.

I could have had a large breakfast but I chose to only eat a piece of sausage and drink milk.  I don't know why I didn't want more.  I just didn't.

I had Alyssa come over to play.  Before long Cole joined us and we ran from one house to the other and got very wet having a blast on our day off from school.

We played in the water standing along side the road.  We didn't have a care in the world.  Oh, we had a few squabbles but mostly it was a fun day.

I came in to re-energize for about ten minutes.

I received the game Beat the Parents for Easter for people ages 6 and up.  Barbara opened it up and read the instructions.  She decided I need to be a better reader for us to enjoy playing, so maybe in 6 months we can try again.

GGM and Barbara made a recipe for Maple Bacon Crack.  They decided it was not a keeper recipe, there are many easier to make, better tasting snacks.



I sure didn't want to stop playing.  I grudgingly took a bath, etc.  Barbara read one of my library books to me while got dressed for bed.  I had 25 minutes to play on the iPad before 8:30pm lights out.