Ice Storm

We just finished an ice storm to rival the FS storm in 2000. We lost power on Tuesday, so we made our living room a "camp site". We all ended up in our room that night though because the gas fire place was giving off so much heat. By Wednesday we were all stir crazy and decided that Kevin should go to FS to work on Thur and Kinley and I went to Kyle and Dan's house to watch some tv and get some nice comfy sleep. Unfortunately, Mallory (my golden retriever) kept me awake most of the night with her anxiety attacks!! Thursday I sent Kinley to FS with my parents because we still didn't have electricity and I had to work the next day (School was still out of power), I went to get some fast food and when I came back around 630 pm...we had power. We were lucky to have only lost a huge beautiful tree and limbs off another tree (am I already tired of cleaning it all up and we aren't half way finished). My parents were in FS this whole time, and when I went to see if they had heat I realized that they had a power surge which had almost caught their house on fire. Then, while waiting on the fire dept to check it all out, a transformer blew in their backyard and caught a tree on fire. I ran out of the house to get away then ran back in because I was afraid limbs might fall on me!!! I was a wreck! But, thankfully, no one was hurt and my parents have insurance! You take routine things such as electricty and gas for granted everyday, but this week I took notice!

Hollywood

If you have ever seen American Idol, you will get a kick out of this story. Kinley was singing, as usual, but this time she stop to look at me. "Do I get a ticket?", I say "yes, here is your golden ticket" (sadly I knew what she was talking about). She grabbed the imaginary ticket and ran off with her hands in the air screaming "I'M GOING TO HOLLYWOOD!!!!" She is too funny. The pictures with this post as from her putting on her own "makeup" and posing for me. She is too girly!

Baby Nicodemus

WELCOME TO THE WORLD!!! This is my new nephew Nicodemus. He was 6lbs and 4 oz. And so super cute. Kim had a c-section last week, and seems to be recovering well. Nick (her boyfriend) left to get some lunch and Kim needed some sleep, so I got to hold him for over an hour. It was quite exciting. He just slept and slept. I decided that I needed to keep him as my own! No nine months of pregnancy/labor/recovery for me! Kinley is still talking about how she is going to get married so she can have a little brother AND sister. Rebekah went to "school" that day, and Nick brought her up after to hold her new brother. It was very cute to watch her "explore" him for the first time. Kinley was DYING to hold the baby, so when Bekah was done, Kinley got her turn. She lost interest in all of 3 seconds, but was already talking about the next time she could hold him.