Lexington Legends!

We went to see the Lexington Legends baseball team a few weeks ago! We had a fantastic time. Ali had never been to a baseball game, and she loved it! They are a farm team for the Houston Astros. Here is Ali, notice the Red Sox hat and shirt. My baby!!

Here she is playing a game, trying to hit a run.

Since it is a minor league team, there are all kinds if things going on during the game. This was one of the best. A bunch of fruit and a big hand came out. Only problem, the big hand couldn't seem to keep all of the fingers up. It was fantastic!

house huntng

We went today to look a house! We are looking at another one tomorrow, hopefully. here is today's:

Big hill for a driveway!

The is looking in from the lower level family room, straight ahead is the utility room, to the left a closet, the right a half bath. Unfortunately the batteries on my camera died so there is no pictures of the actual downstairs family room.

The back of the garage. The steps on the lower left of the picture lead to the kitchen.

Front of the garage.

The kitchen door leading out to the lower deck.

The kitchen, Julianna is opening the door to the garage, Ali has the door to the deck behind her.

Kitchen from the deck door

The upstairs, two bedrooms, master bedroom, bathroom and closet at the end of the hall.

The main bathroom.

"Ali's" bedroom

"Julianna's" bedroom

Master bedroom. Notice the panted windows. Tacky.

Master bedroom, Jeff is at the upper patio door. The closet has the mirrored doors. The pato doors are also painted, tackier.

The side yard.

The backyard from the very back towards the right

The back of the house from the yard. As you can probably tell, the yard is a hill leading down to the house. The deck Jeff is on is the kitchen deck, it leads up to the deck of the master bedroom.

Under the upper deck storage.

The side yard from the deck

From the lower deck out to the backyard.

From the lower deck up to the upper deck

The backyard from the upper deck

Into the bedroom from the upper deck

Down to the lower deck from the upper deck

The upper deck

We really liked this house. Since my camera died, we have no pics of the downstairs family toom with fire place or the upstairs family room. It needs a lot of work, but it is all cosmetic work needed. We love the one we are hopefully looking at tomorrow. I will try to post all about it when we are done.

Kentucky Ice Storm

We have survived our first Kentucky Ice storm. What a trip! Monday we woke up to a dusting of snow, and of course no school for the girls. On the way to Tabatha's house to drop off the girls, the radio was all about the big storm on the way. It was supposed to start Monday afternoon and continue throught the night into Tuesday. By Monday night it had started raining, freezing rain. We went to bed and woke up Tuesday to ice roads and no school. It was back to Tabatha's and off to work. I was the first one in frommy department, and soon saw that almost no one was coming in. I was sent home at noon as the weather continued to deteriorate. By about 5:00 Tuesday school was already cancelled for Wednesday. I took these pictures out of my kitchen window and the patio window Tuesday night:

Out of the patio door; the ice skating rink

We woke up Wednesday morning to a whole lot of ice! I called in to work and left voicemail for my boss saying that I was going to wait until 9:00 and see if anyone was going to be in and if there was going to be any work for me to do. My manager called me a few minutes later to say that he was not going to be in, he was iced in and had had no power since the previous afternoon. I told him I was going to wat until 9 and then call in to see if anyone was going to be there. He agreed. As I started to make breakfast for the girls, I snapped more pitcures out of the kitchen window and the patio door.

My boss called me back a few minues later and told me to stay home. Around that time, Jeff's general manager called to tell him to stay home and keep the store closed. After a nice breakfast the girls headed to their rooms to watch movies and Jeff and I went back to sleep. We woke up around noon, and when we looked out the window, we found a whole new surprise: It snowed out.

We spent most of the afternoon cleaning the house. I then headed out to see what this "Historic Ice Storm" had left. It was beautiful!

I did see a lot of downed branches.

Ice encapsulated seed pods:

Closer up of the seed pods:

I love the starry effect of the ice and snow on the pine trees!

A whole tree encapsulated in ice! This tree has the coolest camoflaged looking bark. I hope it can survive the ice!




The poor berries, they came out too soon!

We received the text message around 4 that they girls have no school again tomorrow. Talk about a winter vacation! It is back to Tabatha's house. Poor thing, I hope she can take handle them for another whole day!