Name change!

Instead of "Kentucky Girls, 2,200 miles away from home" -- I'm officially changing it to "Kentucky Girls -- my ol' KY home!" We will start driving either tomorrow afternoon, or early Wednesday morning. The packers are here, the moving truck man is here taking inventory. It's all in the works. I still can't believe it. California is absolutely beautiful and I've made some wonderful friends here. It's going to be hard to leave, but we have missed our friends and family back home. I'll update the blog when we get the computer set up again at the house (and internet service acquired). I will have access to email thru my phone. We will see you soon.

Love,

Jason, Shelley, & Maddie

Few more pictures

We went to "Whale of a Day" in 2007 as our first activity in the spring after we moved to California. It's an annual celebration in Rancho Palos Verdes of the migration of whales along the CA coast. We also went this past March 7th. Here's a look at then and now (same tree we think).

Our sweet South Bay stay-at-home-moms group gave us a farewell potluck at Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach. We had pizza, salad, and chocolate covered strawberries. Maddie LOVED these cool swings. I've never seen any like this before, but I'd like to find some in adult size. Almost an easy chair swing!

That's all for now... Hope everyone is doing well!

It's been a long time...

Finally, a few things to post and the opportunity to post them!

We've visited some places in February that we've wanted to see for quite a while. We've got to narrow down our list before we leave THIS month!

LaBrea Tarpits

Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach

Los Angeles Zoo

And a very short video of Mad playing on a hippo with a billion other kids around the place. I told Jason I knew what it felt like to be in a bee hive now... LOTS-O-kids!!!

"If you build it, they will come"... But what happens when you tear it down?

So most of you have had to listen to me complain about the construction behind our house. Maybe not HAD to, but you did anyway. Thank you for that. Anyhoo, the buildings are now gone and they are using huge earth movers to grade the dirt around the area where the buildings were. Very loud, very frustrating, but hopefully temporary.

Before:

After:

Amazingly enough, only a few hours after I recorded the above clip, they are now digging again. Instead of making it level as they were this morning, they are making a new trench... I really don't know the method of their madness, but I've certainly seen a method to my madness!

More kitties!

It seems we are now feeding 3 wild kitties in our backyard. I got some face photos of Bob and his friend, the black and white kitty. I say friend, but I had to break them up fighting last night. I shined a flashlight on them and they both looked at me with fur in their mouths. I had to laugh.

Now Bob is the "bravest" one of them all because he'll walk right by me after I put his food in his bowl. The other two are big fraidy cats and will run if you look at them. I couldn't even get a picture of the gray cat because he's so fast to get away.

"Bob"

We've been feeding a feral kitty who hangs out in our backyard for the last couple of weeks. He or she is really beautiful with a great big furry mane. I couldn't get him/her to look up at me, but I'll get one eventually. He/she looks like a bobcat, thus his/her name.

Mickey's Trick or Treat in Calilfornia Adventure

This is the first 'A' in California in front of the entrance.

Maddie's costume is appropriately entitled, "The Chaos Creator." I'm going to make a cape with the help of my friend's mother-in-law before Halloween, but this was just fine for our Disney trip. The circle has a thunder cloud with lightening coming out of it. I was looking for a tornado type picture, but I didn't see any that would work.

Sorry for the blurry picture, but all the lights were cool reflecting on the water.

Cool pic of the moon.

Maddie's favorite princess (for now anyway) is Ariel.

Stuff other than Disney trip:
Helping mom cook-or helping make a mess with flour.... I don't need much help making messes, I'm a professional!