Christine & Curtis (and Kenny! and Baby!)

Friday, September 28, 2012

It's Official

Curtis sent his deposit in for the MBA@UNC program. He's starting Business School next Spring!

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Last night Curtis and I went on a triple-date with some of his work friends and their significant others. We went to Paint and Pals, which is a place where you get to paint on a canvas based on whatever you want. Once a month they have a date night where you BYOB and guys get to paint for free. After painting we went to dinner and then over to one of the houses to hang out.

Anyway, we were happy with our work, it was very fun :-)

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Hurricane Issac

I like to think that Issac was a good dress rehearsal...

Our new weather radio. It can be powered by a re-chargable battery, AA batteries, a cell phone, or a hand crank.
The first thing to understand about Hurricanes is that you really don't know where it is headed until about 48 hours before. But that doesn't mean that you're not preparing for it to hit you in advance of that.
Issac hit landfall on Tuesday/Wednesday of last week, but we were preparing for it the Saturday before. On Sunday morning the projected landfall was right at Mobile, Alabama. Three hours later, it was already heading west of us into Mississippi and Louisiana, which is where it in fact landed.
But that doesn't mean we were not affected. WE bought supplies in the event of a power outage, made extra ice, and brought all of our patio furniture into the house. Curtis was off Monday-Wednesday, and I took Tuesday off and worked a half day Wednesday.

We did not lose power but the Causeway that lies on the Bay flooded, as well as parts of downtown Mobile during high tide, including outside of my office building.

Louisiana got hit pretty bad and I'm glad it didn't come here. It was nevertheless a good exercise in getting everything organized so that we were ready.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

New license plate

Old:

New:

Even Kenny came out to watch

Curtis doing the deed

Done! (go Stanford)

Time to play!

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Sunday, July 15, 2012

A goal set in January pays off in July.

In January when we both started Weight Watchers (again), we set a goal, lose 50 pounds (between the two of us, not individually) and we would get massages.

Many months of aching backs later, we hit the weight last Saturday, and yesterday had our day of relaxation. We each had a 80 minute massage and Christine had a 30 minute express facial, and our bodies are grateful.

We both still have some weight to lose, but we're happy that we hit this milestone. On to the next!

Monday, July 9, 2012

4th of July

We had a fun, low key 4th of July here in Baldwin County. We slept in, went to the gym, watched the crazy thunderstorm outside and enjoyed the day off, but then around 5:30 pm or so we drove to Target, picked up some camp chairs, and went down to the Fairhope pier...

where we ate from a picnic (Mom - we used the UCLA cooler, worked great!) and listened to the Baldwin Pops (a wind ensemble) play mostly patriotic music, with a Star Wars medley thrown in. There was also this fantastic piece with an awesome xylo solo that made me miss the instrument. The Pops also provided the background music for the fireworks, and I was pleased to hear the John Phillip Sousa march with a decent (albeit not great) rendition of the piccolo part. We even got to say to high to friends of ours who were also there.

Best part? We got to bring the Kennster.

Kenny on the Scotland Fleece Blanket. Who knew that blanket would find itself in Alabama!?

How did he do? Aside from barking at a few folks who came too close, he did really well. He even slept through the fireworks. But before he crashed, he loved taking everything in.

We were weary of going out after all of the rain earlier in the day, but it was actually unusually pleasant outside that evening and we were glad that we went, it was very fun and relaxing.