Some progress

Good morning everyone! It sure has been awhile since I've written only because we've been so busy. The builder finally came out and graded our yard- somewhat. The guy actually ran out of gas before the job was finished and we haven't heard from them since but at least they have started. I'm really getting impatient with them considering it's almost December and we still don't have grass. We need at least 3 weeks of above freezing weather for the sod to take so hopefully they get their rear ends out here and finish the job. I can't even fathom the idea of not having grass until late spring of next year. Here's Grace watching the gentleman on the backhoe grade the yard. She loved watching.

I've put up one coat of paint in the great room (the bottom half of the room in which I can reach without scaffolding). It's brown and looks like it is taken right out of pottery barn. The color looks fabulous with the orange in the kitchen. We are still deciding on what color to put in the foyer. I have several samples painted on the wall but really am not crazy about any of them. I'm thinking of just putting a lighter version of what's in the great room in the foyer. I'll take pics later and send them out.

Grace has a cold- no fun! She's been quite fussy understandably. She did seem to sleep well last night though so keep your fingers crossed that she's feeling better today. Hopefully she will be better for Thanksgiving next week. We can't wait to see everyone. Here are several more pics of Grace- Enjoy

New Friends

Not much has been happening here in Lexington. We took Grace to open gym at Gymboree last night and had a blast. She finally started crawling through the tubes and climbing on everything. We met a couple there with 2 kids. They seem really nice so we are going to try to hang out with them soon. Their oldest child is Hannah who is almost 2 and their second child is Aiden who is 6 months.

We still don't have our sod which is upsetting. We have called and left messages several times but nobody has called us back. We also had a heating/cooling guy here to check out the upstairs furnace because our room and Evan's office are burning up while Grace's room is freezing. He said that the airflow was good and that it's cold probably just because it's over the garage. So, we have a delimma- it's only going to get colder. We are probably going to have to buy an insulated garage door and heat the garage. No fun!

I honestly can't think of anything else going on right now. Oh- Evan went to Keeneland for the first time today- he went with a marketing rep from AIG (insurance company) to the horse auction- pretty expensive horses! He said it was absolutely gorgeous inside and just an amazing experience. I can't wait to go!

Go Irish-

What a fun weekend with Mimi and Poppy

Well it has been several days since I've written but that's only because we've been having so much fun here. Evan's parent's (Mimi and Poppy) came for a visit this weekend. They arrived Friday early evening and we decided to just hang out here for the night. Evan and I bought a pool table for our front living room so we decided to just order pizza and play some pool. It was also nice to show them our new house- pictures just don't do it justice they said.

Saturday we took Grace to her first class at Gymboree. Boy was that fun! Gymboree is a clothing store but also the company offers quite a few classes for children of all ages. We enrolled Grace in a gym class. Gosh did she love going down the slides. Gymboree had all sorts of activities including bean bags (to learn on and off) and a parachute, bubbles, etc. We think it's a good idea to start exposing her to other kids and to get her involved with activities outside of the house. I hope you enjoy the pictures from our weekend. Saturday we also drove around some to show Bob and Sharon the area and ran some errands. I was saddened by the results of the Notre Dame game. I was for sure that we would at least beat Navy. I know those poor buys had to have been tired with the game going into triple overtime but I really with they could've pulled through.

Bob and Sharon left mid-morning on Sunday and we started preparing for our Colts vs. Patriots party. It was fun to have our frinds over but again was a disappoingting game. I believe we are going to start painting the kitchen this week. I'm going to try a copper color so we'll see if it turns out.

Signing out-