Happy 1st Anniversary!

It has been great!

I thought God broke the mold?

This is a picture taken at the Easter Parade on Frankfort street. This family looks like a modern version of Mike, Jillian and Bekky.

Nice shades Jillian.

-B

Thunder over Louisville

Shawn came to visit us from Missouri this weekend, we were so glad to have him here. We went to Thunder over Louisville on Saturday; it is the kick-off to the two week long Kentucky Derby Festival. Thunder is the largest pyrotechnics show in North America, there was approximately 800,000 people there this year - there was also an air show. Check out some of the pictures Shawn took below.

Nap Time

Sorry for the shortage of posts.
I saw this video this morning and thought it was so cute. We have had three babies born to families in our church this week. I wish nap time could be this happy for all parents.

Word on the web

This little web-based text editor ain't half bad. Try it. Here is the promo:

ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox browser at ajaxWrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be loaded. For 90 percent of the people in the world, the need to buy Microsoft Word just vanished. This won't make Microsoft happy, but software users should be very excited that software just got cheaper, immediate and modern.

http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=206


ht-Pop Preston

Orchid

I got another Phal. orchid. I love these! Have a wonderful day. ~J

Birthday Fun

My parents came to visit for the weekend and we all went out to dinner for BLP's birthday.

Dad & BLP

These are our upstairs neighbors, Jason & April.

Birthday phone call with David T.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Mr Preston turns 33 today, don't forget to wish him a happy birthday!

TV Junkie II

I did a little research online before the "TV Preview" Friday night and found out it was a scam. Apparently, they have been "previewing" the same two television shows since 2001. One being "City" staring Valerie Harper which aired in 1990 for a few short months. Instead this was market research for the commercials shown during the television shows. Glad I looked into this before we wasted an entire Friday evening filing out surveys on what kind of paper towels, deodorant, and shampoo we use.


Since we are talking about TV, TLC always gets a quick laugh from me with their show titles. - TLC has two new shows coming out this month.


Shalom in the Home will follow Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a family and relationship counselor, as he helps families create a peaceful and happy home life.





Honey We're Killing the Kids! offers a startling look at the causes of America's childhood obesity epidemic and issues a critical wake-up call for parents. Using state-of-the-art computer imaging, nutrition expert, Dr. Lisa Hark, gives the parents a frightening look at a picture of what their child may look like at the age of forty, if they continue current dietary habits. (The pictures are from the British show.)

TV Junkie

Our neighbors were mailed four tickets to a preview of two new television shows. So tonight we are going with Chip and Katy to the Convention Center to check it out. I checked online first to make sure it wasn't some kind of salesman scam, but it seems legit. I will post tomorrow and let you know how it went.

Here are a couple more pictures from Cute Overload. Have a wonderful weekend! ~J

Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest

Apartment Therapy is hosting the Smallest Coolest Apartment contest, with the winner scoring a $2500 gift certificate from Design Within Reach. I have really enjoyed browsing through the pictures of all the contestants. Here are a couple of my favorite. If you would like to see more pictures of a particular apartment, click on the picture. ~Enjoy.


(this link was not working this morning, hopefully it will be back up soon)

How's The Weather?

"Probably no'east to sou'west winds, varing to the southard and westard and eastard, and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place, probable areas of rain, snow and hail and drought, succeeded or proceeded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning." ~ Mark Twain on weather forecasting

I have been reading Freaks of the Storm: From flying cows to Stealing Thunder, The World's Strangest True Weather Stories, by Randy Cerveny. It occurred to me that many of the stories were coming from the Midwest; I thought I would share a few for our Midwestern readers.

"Sept, 3 1970 three children in Coffeyville, Kansas, found a hailstone that was determined to be 17.25 inches in circumference and 5.6 inches in diameter."


"The world's record one-hour rainfall took place in two places - Holt, Missouri, and Kauai, Hawaii. Both locations recorded an extraordinary rainfall total of twelve inches in one hour. The Holt, Missouri, storm took place on June 22, 1957."

"Missouri,The Luckiest Man in the St Louis Tornado (May 27, 1896): A.M. Meintz became quite possibly the luckiest man in the ruined town following the terrible F5 tornado of 1896. Meintz, a wealthy and shrewd man, owned a two-story office building at the corner of Third Street and Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis. Prior to the tornado, he had decided to add an extra story to his building and was preparing to remove the roof so that the addition could be built. Then the great tornado hit, devastating the city and, for the most part, causing tremendous misery and destruction. For A.M. Meintz, however, the tornado was a blessing - it ripped off his building's roof but left the rest of the building untouched. And, equally fortunate, Meintz was one of the few men in East St. Louis who - prior to the twister -actually had purchased tornado insurance. So his "losses" on the roof were entirely covered and he saved the expense of roof demolition for his third-story addition."

More to come if you like these.

Abba

Honey, I thought you would enjoy this. ~J

Toy Car

I took these pictures on Saturday in the Target parking lot. Weird.

Genealogy

A couple reasons I think Pop Preston should come here to do his work; we practically OWN the town!

Phalaenopsis

I purchased my first orchid this Saturday; it is just beautiful. I have been reading a lot on how to care for these; I hope I don't kill it. Anyway, enjoy the pictures - click on them if you would like to see larger detail.

Pray for the Christians of Belarus

Early voting polls opened last night for the presidential election in Belarus. Authorities called the early vote standard democratic procedure. But supporters of the main opposition
candidate in the March 19 vote, Alexander Milinkevich, expressed concern over possible ballot-stuffing and multiple voting at unguarded and unmonitored polling stations; Milinkevich, said advance votes would simply be stolen by the authorities. Authorities have detained a number of Milinkevich supporters in advance of the vote, sentencing some to terms of up to 15 days - this will keep them in prison until after the election.


Minsk last week refused to grant observer status to a European Union delegation at the March 19 presidential elections. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly,
and religion continue under the current president's rule. Since his election in July 1995 as the country's first president, Alexander Lukashenko has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. He has changed the country's constitution to allow himself to run for a third term; Alyaksandr Lukashenko is widely expected to win a third term in office.


Please remember our brothers and sisters in Belarus. Our friend as requested that we pray that the political movements will not harm God's work there; she said the atmosphere there is very tense.

Something the Today Show Probably Won't Cover

*In January, Canada's human rights commission was authorized by the Supreme Court to resume consideration of a union's claim that Air Canada's flight attendants (who are mostly women) are just as valuable, and therefore should be paid the same, as its pilots and mechanics (mostly men).

*In Nagano, Japan, five disgruntled Buddhist monks (along with four clerical workers) at the Zenkoji temple formed a labor union that was certified by the National Confederation of Trade Unions, to combat what they say was harassment by the head monk regarding working conditions.

*James Clifford Hanna, of Canada's Yukon Territory, argued in court in February that "James Clifford Hanna" was merely a name involuntarily given to him and that since he never officially accepted it, he can't be forced to pay James Clifford Hanna's taxes. (He lost.)

*And Finally - Man with longest ear hair. GROSS

Wafah

Wafah Dufour, Osama bin Laden's niece, who wisely dropped the Bin Laden part of her name, has signed a deal for a new reality television show. Can't wait to see this. One thing television lacks is a show about an unknown actress, designer, singer, model, inventor, juggler, ice skater, ballroom dancer, or terrorist winning a competition on their road to stardom.

Get Human

I have to call airlines, hotels, and credit card companies frequently with my job. I have found this cheat sheet at gethuman.com very helpful in getting directly to a live person. If you have to make a call to a major company, I would suggest pulling up this site to get you through all the electronic prompts quickly. J