Bye, Bye Tree!

A couple weeks ago we had a nasty wind and rain storm that came through. We had gotten home from Church, ate our lunch and just put the kids down for their nap. The wind was blowing really bad and it was raining like crazy. We were watching T.V. when Nils and I heard a loud bang sound like something had crashed. We looked out our windows and didn't see anything. Ryder came out of his room a little later and we thought it was weird for him to be awake so soon, but again didn't think anymore of it. We decided we would take stuff over to Syd and Kevin's house so I went in to get Ryder a jacket. I then had an urge to look out his window. Right when I looked out I noticed tree limbs. I looked closer and saw our last pine tree along our house had been blown over. Ryder's window is right by it and how it didn't hit it or go right through it we don't know. Nils and I decided to go out and take a look at it to see it and this is what we found.

The tree was all the way out of the ground, roots and all!! If you look to the right you can see Ryder's window. It was right there for the top of the tree to go through, but it didn't.

We had a few other pine trees along this side of our house, but they were all dead when we got moved in so we chopped them down. This was the last pine tree and the only tree along our house. Now the side of our house is bare!

Again, just another view of the big tree and how it missed his window we have no clue! Crazy! I guess it means next year I'll be planting trees along our house for shade now.