Never thought I would see this happen in my neighborhood

Ok - so I havent blogged in a while, well to tell you the truth, nothing too interesting has been going on. Instead of drinking too much, then being a designated driver and then throwing Nick his 9th birthday party at Lazer Tag. The boys were so cute - they had a blast.

But something really big happened in our neighborhood this morning. I woke up as usual around 7am, came out into the family room and saw that Tyler was in the shower and Nick was on the couch watching cartoons. Just a regular morning, right? Little did we know at that time, a murderer was rooming through our neighborhood and the cops were on pursuit! NO JOKE! So, I get my bowl of mini wheats, plop down in front of the tv and turn on my DVR to watch a little bit of Trading Spouses before Tom wakes up. He's a news person in the morning, so I try to get in something I like to watch before he wakes up. Anyways, so here he comes with his cup of coffee and I turn on Fox 2 News. BREAKING NEWS - Murder Suspect on the Loose in O'Fallon MO. The following schools are closed. There were only 5 closed (in O'Fallon there are TONS) and of course it just so happens to be Nick's elementary school and Tyler's middle school. Tyler was JUST getting ready to walk out the door to the bus stop. So we are GLUED to the tv at this point, watching it all unfold when we hear helicopters overhead, REALLY, REALLY close. We look outside and there they are right above our house. We see our subdivision on the tv - our house included. Talk about SCARY. We live on a small court (only 3 houses) and there is a playground right in front of our house. Behind the playground is a wooded creek and behind that is a farm field. Well the helicopter decided to land in the field. Then we see cops, SWAT teams scouring our little neighborhood. I about craped myself when they were walking through our front yard. I've never in my life seen anything like it. Unmarked cars, cops, SWAT, guys in military fatigues - the whole 9 yards. OMG - it was pretty frightening. My youngest Nick said, "Dont worry mom, I have my gun (its a gun he got at Disney World, it doesnt even shoot anything) and my binoculars, I'll keep you safe! I will watch for the bad guy and call the police." Talk about cute!!

Needless to say, they followed him back about 1 1/2 miles away from my house (THANK GOD) and caught him. WHEW - its been a morning for sure!