Busy, busy...

We have been living in a tunnel life the last little bit. We have no pictures of it. I have worked late a bunch, and have been hanging out at the house doing a bit of nothing.

The kids have skated a bunch. This weekend is Lexy's skating competition in Louisville. We are headed out early Friday afternoon and staying until Sunday or Monday. We (except Isaac) are all excited. I can't wait to see her compete. I guess we'll have a big report from there.

Clinical Assignment

Amy got her first clinical assignment for when we starts them in May. She is headed to Hazard, Kentucky. We blasted down there today to take a look around and see where she might find a place to live for three months. It is 2.5 hours southwest of our house. She will be working at the ARH Regional Medical Center.

The area is very much still in Appalachia, steep, tight hills every where. Her study-buddy Melanie is going there the same time as Amy. They were thinking about trying to use a travel trailer or and RV to stay in near the hospital. The closest thing we could find was a campground that was about 15 miles away and down a one lane road along the river. Not a good place for two young gals to stay by themselves. I am sure that we will find them a good place to stay. The hospital is affiliated with the University of Kentucky Medical School. We just have to find the intern housing.

Frog

The frogs are out again. Last night we were walking into the house and listening the the strange sound ringing in the night. I said, "Isaac, do you know what that sound is..?"

He looked up at me puzzled, then the lights came on, "FROGS..! Can we catch some." Then we looked down and there was one on the front porch. We grabbed a plastic bottle and he scooped up the little guy. We made him a better container and Isaac had a blast watching him climb the walls and teasing his sister and mom with the frog.

Can-struction

The kids and I have been out of the house as much as possible the last few days. We have mostly done the same ol' same ol' of ice skating. But we also stopped by the Clay Center to see the Can-struction. It is a food drive done by having companies come in a build displays out of cans. Here are a few pics...

This one was my favorite. See the water, it was bottled water. This one in a map of West Virginia.

This is the one that my office did. It had a cordless drill in side making the screwdriver turn.

This one looks like the Seattle Space Needle to me, but is was supposed to be an alien ship. When you look at it from above it looks like crop circles around it.

This one is was the flag ship of the event this year. It was featured in the news papers, etc. After Can-struction we when to the Charleston Coin Show at the Civic Center. Isaac had a lot of fun looking at the rare coins. One fellow even had a stack of about 20 $500 bills and 20 $1,000 bills. Isaac loved those. Lexy was basically just along for the ride. I didn't take any pictures at the coin show. We were the only kids there and I was a bit uncomfortable. I don't think that the folks there would have been too happy with us snapping photos.

Warning

Be careful. This game is addicting. Isaac showed it to me yesterday and I lost like an hour before I realized what was happening. It is fun though. Yes, this game.

There is a quick video of one of Isaac's tracks. The little sled dude goes for a heck of a ride.

Isaac Playing Guitar Hero 5

Isaac thinks that this song is funny. It is in German...




He filmed this with his Flip Video between his knees pointed at the TV. He loves to play Guitar Hero. He doesn't have this one that he was playing. It is his friend David's copy that he is playing for the video. It is pretty loud, be careful.

More skating

Yeah, another skating post. The kids skated for 5 hours this weekend. We went to 2 sessions on Saturday and they went to lessons on Sunday night. These photos are all from Saturday. Lexy spent most of her time dancing in the center of the ice, while Isaac was working on skating laps and laps backwards.

Here is Lexy practicing her spirals.

She loves to grab her skate and hold it up while she glides across the ice.

Both of them are certain that they are faster that the other. It seems like every time we go for open skating they have to race. It usual ends up with one of them quitting because the other one cheated. Here they are lined up and ready to go.

Isaac is always zipping around so fast that it is hard to get a good picture of him. I finally caught him standing still.
Not that I could show you on this blog but we were able on Saturday to video chat with all of the kids grandparents to show them the kids skating. The ice arena has fee WiFi. If you are interested, let me know and load up the latest Yahoo! Messenger.