To Oklahoma with love!
I wanted to do something for the people of Moore Kansas. When the tornado hit Moore, we were on our way from Topeka To Kansas City. Moore is 305 miles from Topeka, & 357 miles from Kansas City MO. While we had been in Topeka, we had tornado warnings. Being from Cali. we had no idea what to expect or do, or even think. When it rains in the Midwest, it rains more in 3hrs than it does a whole season in CA. We had tornado warnings on Thursday night. Kevin had to come up with a plan to calm my nerves {Adam kept reading the news on his phone and talking about it way worse than he needed to}. The next morning, and there was no storm in sight! Then the NHRA actually finished up most of the race on Saturday, so they would have minimal, classes to run on Sunday, which is RACE DAY!
Saturday night the wind picked up, and around 12 am it started to rain, thunder and lightning. We finally went to bed around 2 am, listening to the rain pounding into the roof of the motor home. I remember waking up in the still of the night and it was very calm. Around 5am it started to rain again, and by 9am Sunday morning the storm blew out. We lost in the final round, just when another storm started to blow in. By dinner time there was now denying the storm. I took my dogs to the restaurant just in case! We sat down at the restaurant, just as the rain REALLY started. I was very concerned for those little dogs, and how scared they probably were in the car. Kevin actually left the windows down a bit for them; he had to run out in the pouring rain to roll them up! The rain stopped after about 30mins. We went back to the track, the wind picked up it began to rain again, and we went to bed. The next morning we woke to beautiful weather. We went to joyland, a few other thrift shops and headed to KC. around 1:30 pm we meet up with my dad on the turnpike. My dad’s flight home was at 5 so he wanted to be at the airport by 3:30. We dropped him off and then started a little sight seeing. Adam started reading all these post off his Facebook feed about this tornado. I just thought he was rambling again about the storms over the weekend. As it got later in the evening I started seeing stuff about the tornado on my Facebook feed. It finally hit me when one of the guys who works on our car posted on his timeline “I stopped for gas in Moore Ok. 20 min before the tornado hit!” I am home and safe. He lives in the Dallas area. Then we started realizing where Moore was and that it was close to a racetrack we have raced at. We know many people in Moore and surrounding areas.
We are in a motor home. We don’t have TV in the motor home. The only news we get is from our Facebook feeds and other social media. I never watched any news about the tornados. But we were so close to the aftermath you could feel the tornado’s presences.
Kevin and I thought about going to Moore and helping out. I do know one of the guys from the races did drive there to help on his down time. Adam auctioned off a shirt on FB last I saw, the shirt was at $400!
Friday I got an email to donate cards to OK. So I posted that to FB and here on the blog. I made some cards, and some girls from the Paper Issues, DT sent some too!
I wanted to do a bit more. I used my cameo to cut the state of OK out and then stitched a heart in the middle! I then asked my friend Martha from PandaEIGHT if she would make some flair, and we could sell them together in the Paper Issues Store. Martha was in.
We only made a handful of these little kits. All profits will be donated to the Moore OK Tornado victims!
They will be listed in the Paper Issues shop on Saturday June 1st and will ship on Monday June 3rd!
They are perfect for making cards, SMASHing, using in Project Life or even on a Scrapbook layout. I actually made 4 cards with them to send to OK.
Thank you for your love, support, and reading my story!
These little embellishments have been made from the HEART!
To Oklahoma with LOVE
Well it sure isn’t Friday!
It’s Monday on a Tuesday! And I never posted on Friday!
If you followed that you are a genius!
So now to view photos from the past week.
On Monday we left
Topeka KS for KC MO.
Lots of these weeks’ photos are inside jokes.
But you will
still get them I’m sure!
Adam the turtle wrangler
Scrappin in the motor home
Bed head
Boss Hawgs, horrifying vegetarians since 1995
Jager on the yellow brick road
We saw a derailed train.
This happened on a Sunday and we
saw it on the following Thursday,
crazy huh!
At Dorothy’s house, they’re no place like home {Cali style}
Ying and yang! No expiation needed
To Oklahoma with Love
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