Birthday Party Pictures

Happy Birthday, Eli!

Here's a throw-back picture to the day Eli was born, and a picture to show how big he is now! What a difference a year makes, right? I feel very sentimental right now remembering how crazy and wonderful this day was one year ago. What an amazing year it's been!

We're leaving for Hilton Head in a couple hours. If I have extra time before we leave, I'll post birthday pictures - I still need to get them off the camera. Otherwise, we'll post when we get back!

State of Emergency

Yeah, we've been in a State of Emergency since Hurricane Ike came through here on Sunday. Can you believe it - Hurricane effects in KY? Sunday came with hurricane force winds, up to 80 mph pretty much all afternoon. We lost power right after the Bengals game started (although Thom says is was no big loss, since they played terribly). By early evening the wind had calmed down enough, and we were tired of sitting inside with nothing to do, so we went with our neighbors and walked through the neighborhood. I couldn't believe how much damage there is - people missing siding and roof shingles, lots of fallen trees, and misc stuff everywhere. We got pretty lucky, especially when our power came back on Sunday night. Our neighbors came over to cook, since we have a gas stove. But the area suffered the largest black out in history, and thousands are still without - including my parents, who have been staying with us. Schools have been out this week, and now restaurants and everyone else without power are having to throw out all their food. There was a gas shortage since so many stations were without power, but I guess that is getting better now. Eli and I ran an errand yesterday and it was strange to see so many huge, old trees just completely uprooted. Bizarre.
But on the upside - we are leaving for Hilton Head on Friday! Yeah! I think we could all use a vacation after this! I'll try to get pictures from Eli's birthday party posted before we go.

Barbershop

Well, after trimming Eli's hair myself twice, I decided he needed a real "big boy" haircut. So we took him to the barber Thom used to go to (before I started shaving his hair). He did really well and sat pretty still in Thom's lap. I thought it would be a lot more traumatic, but all was well.