I knew they were calling for some light snow but they were only calling for 1/2 an inch, I wasn't too worried about 1/2 an inch. Typically the worst part is the 1.5 miles from our house to Hwy 231, if I can get to 231 it shouldn't be a big deal.
Ben had work stuff already planned so he hadn't planned on going with us and I really didn't think it was necessary. I was looking forward to doing a little shopping after our appointment.
The roads were fine until we were about 5 miles outsife of Leitchfield, KY, about 1/2 way to Louisville. It didn't look like they had pre-treated the parkway there and now the wind was blowing what little snow we had all over the road again. I didn't think it was too bad until I saw that a SUV had just slipped and flipped about 2 minutes earlier and as everyone was veering to the far lane to avoid it we all started sliding as well.
I'm glad I have anti-lock brakes but I'd prefer to not ever have to have them engage. Either way, me and several semi's slid our way down the big hill towards the Leitchfield exit where I decided I'd had enough scary and hazardous driving conditions for the morning and I pulled off and went to the gas station.
I called the Neurologist office, told them the roads were bad here and that I couldn't get there by 10:30 could we push it back or just change it all together. We just moved it to this coming Friday now....and as it stands at the moment, it's not calling for snow : )
We sat in Leitchfield for over an hour. I didn't want to head back out on the road until I was sure they were in better shape. I was pretty appalled to begin with that they were so bad for such a small amount of snow.
Saturday morning we had our #2 Swimming Lesson at the YMCA. One of the other babies was there as well this time. She was 18 months old and wasn't a big fan of the water. Mallory just loved it and it was obvious this little girl didn't but she finally warmed up by the end of the lesson but she was still not as relaxed as Mallory. Mallory's only problem this lesson was that she was trying to drink the water....
We then came back home and got ready to head to Elkton for Zaylei's 4th birthday party. Full on Princess Party including Castle Jumper in the Activity Building of the Church. It was fun and Mallory got to go to her 1st Birthday Party!!
By the time we got back to Utica it was almost 7 pm and I was not in the mood to squeeze in my training run, I wanted wine. So, I opted for wine on Saturday night but did get in my 3 miles on the Treadmill on Sunday.
I'm not sure if I've mentioned it here on the blog, but I'm working on scanning in all of Dad's slides and photo's from his time in Vietnam. I've got a nifty device that does a good job of turning slides into digital prints, my flat bed scanner for bigger documents and some of dad's album's where the pictures aren't easily removed and then this cool little photo scanner that quickly scans photos up to 5X7 and puts them on an SD card. It's super quick and works great. I'm almost done with all of dad's photo albums, have moved onto scanning in his friend Doug's, who was on tour with him, and will soon plug them all into iMovie and make a DVD Movie of their time in Vietnam with all the great music of that era. I'm really excited and can't wait to finish it up!!
I also finished our 2010 Book on Shutterfly....aka my version of Scrapbooking. I'll probably do a video as well, but that doesn't take as long to do as the book so I wanted to get that done. If you want to see it, you can click on the side link for Mallory's shutterfly page. I should have mine in the mail in about a week.
Don't have many pictures from just the past couple days, but here's a few:
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