Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Rain Rain Go Away!


We have had like 2 weeks of rain now, and it got really bad on Monday night. The weekend before last, we got about 5" of rain, then last Friday and Saturday, we got another 1-2", then on Monday, we got 9-11" in about 3 hours. Here are some pictures of all the rain. Our neighborhood golf couse, or fishing hole. Ross saw someone standing on the green fishing.
Our neighborhood lake. There is supposed to be a fountain in front of all of the trees, and the trees are planted on an incline.










Our pool was overflowing and flooding our back porch. Notice the wind ripped one of our palm trees apart. Above is another neighborhood lake, with the bench now in the middle.



This is right in front of our house. More of a lake than a street at this point.






The kids car. I was watching, and hoping I wasn't going to have to go move it.

Hopefully we won't have anymore heavy rain for a while. It does save on the water bill though, and thank goodness it didn't cause any damage or get in the house. School was cancelled yesterday, so the kids were very happy. We don't have snow days very often, just hurricane and flood days.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

SWITZERLAND!

Well, for those of you not on facebook, the news is out. We are moving to Switzerland by August. Don't have all the information yet, but we are busy applying for school for the kids, and trying to plan our hectic summer in preparation for the move. It will be hard to leave kids and grandkids, but hope that we will have more visitors in Switzerland than we have had in Texas. As far as we know this is an indefinite move, which makes it whole lot harder. How many years until retirement? We are anxious to embark on a new adventure, but wish it wasn't so far away, and that we could take everyone with us. Please come visit us!

Friday, April 3, 2009

Well, I am off to Iowa City, Iowa to watch Kaylee compete in Regionals! I get back Sunday, and will wave to Ross as our planes pass on the runway as he leaves for Switzerland. Somehow, Switzerland sounds more exciting than Iowa, but I get to do something way more fun than work, so I guess it is a good trade off. I will post more when I return. If any of you would like to follow the action, they are supposed to have live internet streaming, here is the link. www.hawkeyesports.com%2Fsports%2Fw-gym%2Fspec-rel%2F09-ncaa-w-gym-regional.html&h=d19695141a24b2b722536c71e1ff1d8b

UPDATE: Kaylee competes on Saturday the 4th at 6:00 PM Central Time