Lacey has her permit

Yay!! Lacey has her driving permit! She does a great job!!! I am not ever afraid to drive with her she is careful and doesn't panic. :)

Road Problems around Nauvoo

Every day that I have driven Lacey to Drivers Ed in Hamilton there has been road issues. The rain has been causing lots of problem along river road. on Thursday I was excited to see nothing going on at all all the way to Hamilton. The first time in over a month. I dropped Lacey off and on my way back to Nauvoo I came across a mudslide. It had covered half the road and It had happened in the 10 or 15 minuets it took to drop Lacey off and head for home. When I drove back to pick Lacey up there were road crews back to work. I really feel for them. It is a never ending battle.

I took Amber to Iowa City on Friday and had to back track about 6 miles because of road issues. It is crazy.

Flooding around Nauvoo.

This is just a random picture of the Missouri river off of the internet. I know there is flooding around us but I have not seen any. The river is really high but it really isn't affecting us here yet. Everything is soggy but life is moving along as usual. My cousin Randy and his family flew into St Louis yesterday and drove up last night. He could not cross the river from Missouri into Keokuk to come to Nauvoo because the road was flooded so he had to drive the LONG way around through Donaldson and cross the river in Ft Madison. I don't know if there is still a problem there but once you get here everything is fine and it looks like no rain for the next couple of weeks! Yay! Just in time for pageant! Now we can get our roof finished!!! It has rained almost non stop for what seems like forever. We can really use a break.

Here are a few links for road conditions:

http://maps.modot.mo.gov/travelerinformation/

http://www.wunderground.com/US/IL/Nauvoo.html

http://www.511ia.org/default.asp?area=IA_statewide&textOnly=False

home makeover projects

Well our roof was desperately in need of a makeover. The shingles are curling and it looks terrible. So we decided to go with "slate blue" metal roof. Amber and Luke helped by painting the shutters.
Lacey, Marty and I pulled off the old shingles on the front half. It was really hot and a lot of work.


But it looks great! the front half is finished now it is time for the back half.....if it would just stop raining long enough to pull the shingles. I can't believe how much rain we are still getting. My yard is a swamp!
We still have a few mores shutters to paint and hang but it is looking really good. I love the color.
I have hated the set up of my living room and dining room for a long long time. I finally got tired of fighting it and moved my dining room to the fireplace and made my old dining room my living room. I LOVE IT!! I bought a antique rug from Helen and finished it off to get these results. I couldn't be happier. Now if it would just quit with the rain and thunderstorms we could finish the roof.

My 80's Flashback

I just though I would share....

I was having this weird day of flashbacks. I was listening to 80's music and really enjoying the whole flashback to the "good old days" I had a few years I would really like to forget but for the most part it was pretty cool. I was showing my kids that I lived all of my teenage years in the 80's. In 1980 I was 12 years old and just becoming a teenager. I was in 7th grade my first year of Jr High and just starting to care about clothes, hair and what was "cool"at least in my eyes.
Well I came across this video of Sheena Easton and started laughing because I suddenly remembered how much I loved Sheena Easton and how much I wanted to look like her. I loved her songs and her style. I thought she was so cool. Then I started looking at pictures of me and laughed at how long that style stuck with me. Wow! it's really funny how much we are influenced by media even though my obsession with Sheena ended while I was still in Jr High you can see my style stayed pretty much consistant.



Here I am in 1991 the 80's have just ended and I am still clinging to that style even though I am 23 years old. Do i regret it? nope I still kinda like it. Hey I am OF THE 80's it is part of me and as funny as it seems to look back. It wasn't that bad. ;)

ENJOY THE VIDEO!!!!



and the songs...