"it's like a bad snow storm!"

the above is a quote from one of our neighbors...we have had almost 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours and it's STILL raining!! what is being called "Flood of 2006" by news stations has already caused 5 deaths in the kentuckiana area!! below are a few pictures around the apartment complex...we just received a call from management to move our cars from the property. and exactly where do they propose we go with them? we haven't moved ours yet but will keep an eye on it throughout the afternoon/night.



the water was above the trunk of this car last night...



the ohio river...oh, wait...no...this is just the road next to our apartment building!



yes, that is a refrigerator that was reportedly used as a boat about 3 am this morning...(i'm gonna guess bad judgement/alcohol was involved as well)




a resident removing debris from a storm drain. management had this area blocked to oncoming traffic...



about 3 minutes later...remind me again why we pay rent? cars were now able to get through thanks to this kind heart who stated, "i'm too pretty to be doing this!"



i thought dumpsters were heavy...

in the building next to us, you can see in the kitchen through a window. water was in the apartment last night and picked up the refrigerator and moved it around in the kitchen! no one has been home there yet...they may not want to come home!

don't worry about us! we are staying put! kenny is studying hebrew and i'm ammusing myself by taking pictures of water...

Give me a break...we haven't even been married two years!

what to do in the bottom of the bowl if you eat the last of your husband's favorite puppy chow desert! also, it helps if you aren't in the room when he finds it........

Pretty Trees

unlike alabama, land of the pine tree, louisville is full of...trees that have leaves! call me crazy, say i have too much time on my hands (which i really don't), but i'm about to allow all who read this (which apparently numbers 1...and i'm adding posts by request of the 1) to experience the beauty of the coming of the fall colors! God is about to blow up this city with what i personally think is one of the most beutiful parts of creation...the leaves changing colors!! what you see below are a few sample of trees around our apartment complex that haven't started changing yet (yes, i just walked around the complex with me camera and took pictures...i'm a nerd.) i want to show yall the progression of the coming of the colors and will try to take pictures again in the same places as the weeks go by and the colors change...i'm excited just thinking about it!! God is so good and shows himself in so many ways. I'm loving that i can experience just one of the ways...





so keep an eye out and hopefully you will be blessed just a fraction of the amount we will by being able to see it in person!

now that "jana's nature segment" is out of the way, would you like an update on us? i'll assume yes...kenny is still plugging along in hebrew. loving it, but feeling pretty overwhelmed with it at the same time. pray for his WHOLE family...johnny just had back surgery yesterday and last time we talked with them, he was running a fever (just thinking its a sinus infection though). lisa's mom, honey, recently had heart surgery and went back into the hopspital last week and as far as i know is still there. and megan is scheduled to have a mri soon to determine what the lump on her leg is. and lisa just needs sanity and peace as all this goes on around her! we all know how the power of prayer can work and how God is the great physician and has a healing hand...please join me in lifting up the entire family! your prayers are appreciated by both of us...

i am really enjoying my new job and meeting all kinds of new and interesting people. and the flexibility that i have makes me giddy just thinking about it...as long as my work is being done and i'm getting in at least 40 hours a week (actual work or comp time), nobody really cares if i'm at the office, at home, etc. i love it! onto other southern issues...i'm unfortunately still wearing the monster knee brace. went the dr last week expecting to be moved to the smaller, functional brace and the dr decided to humor me and keep me in the big one until at least my oct 9 appointment. that will be 10 weeks in this brace in case you have lost count! i'm not really in too much pain any more, but physical therapy is going slow. i have NO muscle and my leg looks really puny!! i just forgot how long this takes to rehab. but we have been blessed that this acl surgery has gone much better than the last one!

things are going great at church...for those of you that don't know, we are helping with a church plant (of sorts...really just an additional campus to the church we are currently attending) in rural spencer county (next of our county) that is meeting in the elementary school. we are averaging about 100 on sunday mornings. we just started small groups on sunday night and as far as i know they all went well. i'm serving as our preschool coordinator and really enjoying it. we have over come many obstacles in the preschool department, some of which includes black widow spiders, really dirty classrooms, and packing 3 classrooms worth of furniture, toys and materials in 2 large crates to travel!! we are packing experts now! pray that God continues to grow this church and bring the many unchurched, young couples that live in the community to highview baptist church...and to Christ!!

sorry so long, but i love letting yall know how things are going up north...let me know if you are actually reading! leave us a comment!! we love yall and miss you even more!!

pray for healing!

who's that handsome man??









couple of prayer requests for those prayer warriors out there...

1. Kenny's grandmother, Honey...she had heart surgery last week and is still in the hospital in georgia.

2. Kenny's dad, John...lots of neck/back pain with the possibility of another surgery in his future. Pray for total healing and no pain!

3. Samuel Norris (Jeff & Rachel Norris)...this is the adopted son (from the Ukraine) of some friends of ours from college. he is 3 and had to have surgery last thursday to repair a hole in his heart...now the pressure in his lungs needs to decrease. (you can check up on them at http://norrisfamily.ministryhome.org/index.php click on latest updates!) he has only been in the US since nov 2005 and has already gone through so much!

thanks for the prayers guys!

Happy Labor (or lack of) Day!!

hey guys! hope everyone had a good long weekend. my mom, dad, nana, kim, katie & jared came to visit this weekend and we had fun just hanging out and stuffing our faces! i don't know how the weather has been in good 'ol alabama...but it's been nothing short of perfect in Kentucky! it was beautiful and in the 60's all weekend...even chilly and in the 50's at night. i love it! i've got my winter coat and sled on standby for the first snow! (i'm probably jumping the gun just a bit...) i'll post a few pictures of the fun we had this weekend...

we went to Joe Huber's Farm in starlight, indiana to eat fried chicken and play with the ducks...


they didn't want katie and i petting them...



but didn't mind jared feeding them...


although katie didn't want to try the duck food...it probably tastes like chicken!



we went to a louisville bats game on sunday night...again...perfect weather! i think we won...wasn't really paying attention to the game though. i was to busy watching Nana dance to all the songs they were playing over the loud speakers...haha!





update on the knee situation: i was released to drive last week. thanks to those of you that have been praying for us...that was NOT a fun couple of weeks where kenny was having to drive me (and himself) to our various daily activities. i've got about a week and a half left in the big brace and then another 6 weeks in a smaller brace. thankfully this surgery has gone MUCH better than the last one...sad that i've had so many knee surgeries that i can compare them to each other...

HAVE A GREAT SHORT WEEK!!