Ice Storm in Kentucky

Well for those of you who have been watching the weather, Kentucky got a nice dose of ice and snow these past 2 days. We have fortunately not lost power yet, but as you cant tell from one of these pictures there is an omnious branch hanging over the power line that comes into our house. The crews are already out checking on things and cutting the branches that have fallen down. I have been watching the news and realizing just how bad it is in Lexington. There have been multiple fires from downed power lines and MANY people are without power. There are saying it can take up to a week to bring power back to some people so please be praying for them and us. The sun has started to come out so I am hoping this will help melt things. Thankfully I got called off from work right as I was getting into my car and Mike does not have school today. I excitedly thought this meant Mike and I could have a fun snow day, but he is in dental school so he has headed off to campus to study. How I long for the free time we had with RUF, but four years and then it will be much better, at least I think. I am planning on spending my day catching up on my scrapbooking and just enjoying being home.

One nice thing about yesterday at work was that absolutely NO ONE came in (which in my opinion it was kinda crazy we were at work anyways) and the new fabrics from Wesley Hall did so I spent about 3 hours picking out my fabrics and finalizing everything so we should be ordering some new furniture by the end of this week! I am very excited about it and think it is going to look great when it comes in. The picture shows the 4 fabrics we are using. The blue one will be on the chairs, the gold on the sofa and the red and pattern on the pillows.

On Sunday I made my first set of curtains by myself. I was a little nervous but I think they turned out great. I applied the green stripe down them because I thought it added a little something extra. They are not quite done because i am going to put grommit rings (like the pottery barn curtains) on them, but I am waiting for a coupon to Hobby Lobby to buy them. I thought this picture would give you all an idea of what they look like in the room.

We overall are staying pretty busy with school and work, and trying to hang out with friends and fix up our new place. Mikes school has definately picked up this semester, so he was glad to have today to kinda catch up on some things. Also I just had to post a picture of my amaryllis because I am so proud that it finally bloomed, a month after Christmas.