Happy Wedding Anniversary

Today marks our third wedding anniversary . . . I can hardly believe it has been three years, it has flown by!! It will definitely be a memorable anniversary since we have been ousted from our home due to the wind storm Hurricane Ike dumped on us this past weekend, but we will make the best of it! In commemoration of our anniversary, I posted some of my favorite pictures from our wedding day below. Ryan and I got married at a beautiful historic church in Lexington and had our reception at Talon Winery & Vineyards. We still laugh and reminisce about our wedding and I am sure we will continue to do so over the coming years. . .

Weathering the Storm

This past Sunday, the remnants of Hurricane Ike passed through Louisville, leaving quite a wake of destruction in its path (though not nearly as terrible as that left down in Texas). By the time the storm reached Kentucky, it had weakened to a wind storm, with the wind gusts reaching up to 75 mph. While we were at the house Sunday afternoon, we heard a “snap, crackle and pop”, and looked out our back windows only to see several cords/power lines draped across the roof of our garage, running through our yard, and draped over our fence. A large beech tree in the home of our neighbors split and hit a utility pole, thereby splitting the utility pole in half and knocking down power for our entire block (actually, none of our neighborhood has power). The tree landed on two vehicles belonging to our neighbors, crushing them in the process. LG&E has been out momentarily to inspect the line, and I believe the service man said it could take a week or more to fix it (the most recent press releases are now saying it could take up to 2 weeks to get all LG&E customers back with electrical service as this is the biggest power outage in the city’s history).

So….here we are almost 72 hours later with no electrical service and no date of when we can expect to have it back. As you can imagine, this is definitely an inconvenience, especially when you have a 4-month old and a dog!! We got Pearl into the kennel on Monday and I’m sure she is having a blast playing with the other dogs. As for Ryan, the baby and I, we are temporarily staying with some good friends that live close by. All things considered, we are doing pretty good – we’re definitely lucky to have had no property damage, just having to endure the inconvenience of being out of our house and lugging quite a few of our belongings (and a baby’s things, which you can imagine is quite a lot) out of the house!

A Mummy's Love

While sorting through Alexandra's infinite supply of clothes, I came across the cute Halloween costume I bought for her last year, soon after finding out I was pregnant. I had forgotten about it, but it made me SO excited for Halloween this year - not like she can eat candy or make out the words "Trick or Treat," unless "ah goo" counts! Ryan's mom and step-dad are in town today and she picked up the cutest onesie for Alexandra from Old Navy (it's hard to make it out in this picture, but it says "My Mummy Loves Me") - I can't wait to put her in it. Bring on the fall season!!

Happy (Belated) 4 Month Birthday!!

My beautiful girl turned 4 months old last Thursday, September 4. To celebrate, we headed off to the pediatrician where we learned that Alexandra weighed 13 lbs, 8 oz (50th percentile), is 24" long (50th percentile again), and her head circumference (which I cannot recall the exact measurement) is in the 78th percentile!! My girl is so intelligent, she needs a slightly bigger head to hold all those brains!


She's such a joy and we just love her more and more - if that is possible - with each day. We never know what a new morning will bring, and what neat thing she will do. She smiles, laughs, gurgles - and in the past week or so, has learned to distinguish her thumb from her other fingers and very sweetly sucks on her thumbs. Yes, that's right, thumbs - maybe she will be ambidextrous. Her daycare teacher seems to have a problem with the thumb sucking, but I don't care - I figure if it makes her happy and soothes her, then I would be a fool to stop her.


We love you sweet girl and are so proud of you and cannot wait to see all the neat things you'll do in the coming months.

Redemption??

I haven't watched MTV in years, so I didn't see the Video Music Awards hosted by the network this past weekend, but I did see the big news of the evening on Monday morning's broadcast of the Today show. After last year's horrifying debacle, is it possible that Britney Spears - gasp - has redeemed herself?? She actually looked somewhat normal - not dazed, drunk and speaking in a fake British accent, not flashing her obvious lack of underwear to the paparazzi while exiting a vehicle, but actually normal. I hope she continues on this trend - good for her!

A Hair-Raising (or Should I Say, Hair-Minimizing) Experience

I cannot believe I actually did it...as you will recall from my prior rantings, I have been wanting to cut my hair short for several months. Even before Alexandra was born, I decided I wanted to chop off my long hair for a new style that I thought would be easier to style in the mornings. Since she was born, my resolve to cut my hair has only strengthened, after countless mornings cleaning spit up out of my long hair and working strands of hair free from the tight grasp of Alexandra's little fingers.

My appointment was last night and I am very pleased with the results...I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, probably will when I next wash it. I love it though! I really think my hair stylist, Shauna, nailed the edgier bob I was going for. As best as I can tell, I think she cut off about 8-9 inches of hair!!

Here's some "self-portraits" I took last night with my BlackBerry of the finished look....please excuse the horrible quality and the high shine on my face....in my defense it was the end of the day and my makeup had slowly slid off my face throughout the afternoon due to the 90 plus degree weather here in Kentucky.