ALL SHOOK UP!

This morning at about 6:00 Jackson and Natalie woke up. I think Natalie was excited to play with her new toys from her birthday so she couldn't sleep. I had a really bad headache, so after I got the kids breakfast I decided to go and lie down for a while until Staci woke up. At about 7:15 I felt some major "rumbling" in my bed, and heard my bedroom windows shaking and rattling. At first I thought it was a BIG train going by (occasionally we will feel rumlings from some of the bigger trains going by because we live really close to the train tracks - I KNOW, you are jealous - but I have only ever felt the trains going by when I am upstairs, and my bedroom is downstairs). Anyway, I listened for a train whistle and it never came. I kind of sat up in my bed and looked around, and at first thought it was all in my head (because I have a lot of dizziness from time to time and I am sure I could feel my bed moving without it really happening). I knew I had heard the windows rattling quite a bit though, and couldn't have imagined that. Well, when I turned the T.V. on at 9:00 to, of course, watch my favorite game show "The Price is Right", (although I have to say I think Drew Carey is awkward as the new host and sometimes acts as if he has never been on television before!)... I heard that there was an EARTHQUAKE just about 100 miles west of here on the Nevada/Utah border. It measured 6.0, and there were a lot of people here in the Salt Lake area that felt it. I have only felt one earthquake before and that was on my mission in Victoria, B.C., and I'll never forget it. We were teaching a discussion to someone and the pictures on the walls started moving and the ground below us was shaking.... and I thought it was a sign for this person to get baptized. Today's earthquake was a sign for ME to hurry and finish up my 72 hour kits! Right?! So anyway, there you go.... something exciting to write about, for a first.