The Kentucky Crew!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Father's Day

We spent Father's Day on KY Lake with dinner at Bob's favorite catfish restaurant, Cypress Inn and Marina, which is right on the lake, so we usually partner a trip to Cypress with a day on the lake, then just dock the boat for dinner! Its always a fun trip back home b/c its usually around sunset on the lake and a beautiful boat ride! The girls love the lake and the boat....here are some fun pictures of the day, the evening and the silliness that occurred on the way home!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Spammers- please don't make me do it...

EEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR...................
I'm sick of having to delete random spam comments to my posts. If you do not know me, don't leave a comment randomly asking me to look at your blog. Anymore random comments and I'll be making this a private blog to my family and friends who actually might care. Its super annoying to have to police my own blog.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Blame Facebook

You can blame Facebook for my lack of keeping up with my blog. Sorry. All photos, updates, etc, go straight to Facebook b/c it is just so much easier. It will probably continue to be this way, so if you read this blog and we AREN'T Facebook friends and you want to be, leave me a comment or find me on Facebook!!

Just a quick update:

Beth:

She just finished 1st grade and had a great year. She says her favorite subjects were lunch and recess, however, she loved science and reading! She is also a great little writer! Writing was always my strong point, so maybe she'll follow in my footsteps. She has a rather extension summer reading list for 2nd grade that she has already made it about 1/3 way through! She loves to read and I'm so thankful of that. She has not been impressed with the 2nd grade reading list, as she says the books on it are way too easy! She is reading chapter books like they are going out of style. I'm guessing her test scores will say she is reading at a 3rd grade level, but who knows! She is enjoying a busy summer already! We've already been to Destin once, in anticipation that we might not get to go our usual 4th of July week b/c of the oil. (The jury is still out on that, though. We watch the oil maps like hawks!)

Her summer babysitter is keeping her busy with the library, pool, parks and more! She is going to her first "REAL" camp this week -Church camp. Just a 1-night camp, but she knows NO ONE there and is actually very excited!

Sarah :

She will be in 4-year old Nursery School (preschool) next year. She is super excited! She is also staying busy this summer and finding her confidence to be my little fish in the water again!

She loves to swim, go to water-play-day at daycare on Tues/Thurs and play outside. She is getting ready to go to LadyBug camp at mom's this week and is SO excited about that, too! Its her first year and Beth has her all hyped up about it!

Bob continues to stay busy with his company. He is booked solid through the first part of October, so that is very awesome!!

I continue to stay busy with work, Church stuff and mom stuff! Always running and always busy! Story of my life, but I love every minute of it!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Sarah's Last Day of 3-Year Old Nursery School

I can't believe its already time for my customary "last day of school" front porch picture...for Sarah at least!! She lost her babyface this year!!!!

FIRST DAY - SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

LAST DAY- MAY 13, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

Dance Recital

Okay- my turn to brag a little on my girls! They both did AWESOME at their dance recital. SO CUTE!! AND they had to do the whole thing twice - Friday night and Sunday afternoon, plus dress rehearsal on Thursday. I think Beth was more excited about getting flowers after the recital than she was to actually dance. Beth is built like a ballerina- all legs. I hope she continues to dance and the passion grows in her because I honestly think she could be fantastic. There were several seniors dancing their last recital before graduation and OH MY! They were AWESOME! I was in awe watching some of these "big" girls dance- truly beautiful. My girls' teacher, Ms. Elissa, was one of them. BEAUTIFUL ballerina and dancer. There is a picture of her below with Sarah's class - she's just beautiful! So - enjoy these pictures! Ballet is over (except for a small 2-day camp in June) till mid-August!

Beth:

Sarah:

Monday, May 3, 2010

Water

Yeah...water....lots of it!
I can't begin to tell you all how lucky I feel this morning. UNBELIEVABLY lucky. Some of you may remember that in the aftermaths of Katrina on August 29, 2005, our house flooded. While it wasn't terrible and only portions of house got water, it was still enough to send our lives into a tailspin for a little bit. The feeling I get in the pit of my stomach anytime a lot of rain is predicted is a feeling I wouldn't want my worst enemy to feel. I had that feeling ALL WEEKEND. We just watched and waited for the 10+ inches to hit us....We got lucky. We got 6 1/2 inches. It wasn't enough to flood anyone out of their home in our area. Nashville and middle-Tenessee- about 75 miles to our southeast - weren't so lucky. They got 18 (EIGHTEEN!!!) inches of rain in two days. That is 25% of their YEARLY AVERAGE...in TWO DAYS!! I'm hoping that those of you who aren't "local" are seeing images on your news of this flooding. Its unprecedented. Its never happened like this before, and probably never will again in most people's lifetime. The Opryland Hotel and OpryMills mall is flooded! Parts of historic downtown Nashville are flooded.The rivers are STILL rising, some won't even crest till late today. Its crazy! Several major interstates (I-24 and I-65) flooded BADLY on Saturday, with people having to evacuate and abandon their vehicles. Craziness, I tell you...insanity!! Here is a crazy video from the I-24 flooding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gYhLKwSp4&feature=player_embedded

Other videos/photos/stories:
http://www.wsmv.com/index.html
http://www.newschannel5.com/

And the oil spill in the Gulf is making me nuts too!! Our precious Destin beach is in jeopardy. Not cool....not cool at all!!! It makes me sick to my stomach.
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/