Ladies Day Out

Today Kylee and I had our very own Ladies Day Out! My grandmother used to take me and Hannah out every couple of months for Ladies Day Out. I remember enjoying it very much and wanted to do the same with Kylee. Ladies Day Out consists of doing..... whatever the lady you are taking out wants to do :) So, this is what we did:

We went to Chick-Fil-A first. This is actually her eating after we left Chick-Fil-A.

She spent most of her time at Chick-Fil-A playing on the play place. I got that from my very good friend and mentor, Mrs. Paula. Let the kid play if they want to play... they can burn calories and eat later :)

Then, I just happened to spot a place to get some girl scout cookies:

Then we went to see Hannah and Dad:

And my dad riding his bike INSIDE!

And, finally, we headed to the park! We did lots of running and sliding and swinging...

she talked me in to doing all of those things with her.

And I did not mind one bit. It gave me an excuse to swing and slide down the slides ;)

She called the foot/handholds "little piggy's".

Sadly- she did not make it up. She tried very hard though!

We had to, of course, go to the other playground.. hehe.

 

Trying to smile with the sun in her eyes.. she is such a good sport!

"Rachel, help me! I can't do it!".

 And back to the other side. I stopped running at this point..

Kylee kept going...

And going...

"Ah! I've been captured!"

The End

I, for one, had a great time!

Cheers to passing on the tradition of Ladies Day Out!

Next time it will be just Nathan and I... I have yet to come up with a name. There's Nathan and Rachel Day but that just doesn't sound like much fun.

Rocks, Balancing, and Storms.

A few days before the storms and tornadoes came through we went across the street and threw rocks in the creek (Nathans favorite)

and balanced on the rocks around the used-to-be-flower-bed (Kylee's favorite)

Its amazing how one day everything seems almost perfect and then the next day houses are obliterated, lives are lost, and neighborhoods are destroyed. I don't have any pictures of the tornadoes path or of the houses it demolished. But I do have one thing- thankfulness to God for sparing the lives of hundreds of other people that, from the looks of their houses, should not be here today. And from keeping the path of the tornadoes much smaller than that of the ones in April. That is not to belittle what happened to countless family members and neighbors in our community who were hit by the tornadoes. The destruction is devastating. But...

Even in the midst of the storms and destruction, God is good.