Black Belt testing and A Spring Blizzard

Well Cory tested for his black belt Friday night into Satruday morning. This was a 12 hour test and of course Kansas had this wonderful Spring Blizzard happening. We were reported to have 6-10 inches of snow. Last night Cory left about 8 and headed to the school and I stayed home and relaxed... then this morning the plan was to drive to the school and take pictures of everyone getting their new belts. Well i opened up the garage and realized there was no getting my car out because the snow was just that deep. So, I said "I'll walk there it's not that far"... Started walking and barely made it... Luckily a Coworker saw me walking and picked me up and took me to the school. So got there and they were just handing out the belts. Cory got pictures taken.. then we tried to get his car un buried from sitting at the school all night. We eventaully got out of there... then we were 2 blocks from home and we got stuck int he snow because our raods were not plowed out yet. Luckily a cop pulled up in a big truck behind us and tried to help us get out but couldnt the policeman said "just leave your car here and we'll take you guys home... we've been telling everyone to just leave cars where they are and coem back and get them later"... there were no EMS/ no Tow trucks going today. WONDERFUL! Then they told us when we were coming up to our house that Hutchinson got 18 iinches of snow... Thats just nuts! We hopped our snowbanks and came inside. We both took naps after eating soem breakfast... Got up from the nap and went outside to try and shovel the driveway a bit. The snow was way to heavy.. We have a little path we'll work on it more later. We deicded to walk down to Cory's car and try and dig it out. So here we go down the street whith shovels in hand and go dig out cory's car... we go back and forth with the stupid vehicle and fianlly i just floor it and back all the way out to main street and almost hit soembody but hey we got out of that mess.. Finallyw e saw the plow coming for our streets so i said just go drive around for a bit until we are sure the street is plowed. drove through town which wasnt bad roads were okay for the most part. So, came home and plow put lots of snow in our driveway.. so car is now parked in the street and we came inside... no more shoveling for today.. alot of it has melted but ugh.. its way to heavy!!! Anyways here s a few pictures of our last 24 hours!!

A weekend in Topeka

We went to Topeka this past weekend for a Karate Tournament. Amy and Tyler and their kids Tristin and Rylee came with us and also Carla came with us too!! We had our school perform and we got first place. then everyone did their own indiviual forms and Tristin got 2nd, Carla got 2nd, I got 3rd 9Judges couldnt add up the scores correctly otherwise I would have had 2nd). Cory took first in weapons, and his forms. So all in all it was a good learning experiecne for everyone's first tournament. After the tournament we ate at Boston Market which was wonderful!!!!! Then we went to the Topeka Zoo and that was fun... saw lots of stuff.. then we went to the Topeka Mall which is bigger than Town East Mall in Wichita. We were really tired after walking everywhere so we headed back to the hotel and played in the pool and then we all changed and we went out to Hooters for dinner. Back to the hotel later and I think everyone just crashed. It was really a fun weekend to just get away from everything.. Work, home, yardwork stuff that will be starting up now. I am so loving the weather... it's wonderful... except when you have a cold. Cory was so generous in sharing his cold with me, I wasnt feeling very well starting saturday night. I came home from work at lunch today and took a 3 hour nap . I feel a bit more awake now. So i'll go to bed early tonight too and hopefully get feeling better soon!

Tyler, Tristin and Cory Carla, Amy, Rylee, Stephanie

Hope everyone is doing great. Happy St. patty's day tomorrow!!

Sam Goes to the Vet

Well, last friday night Sam got out of the house and was gone. So we let him wander and figrued he'd come back... Saturday morning he came back and was limping... could hardly put his left back leg down. We checked it and didnt see any bite marks but it looked like his foot (would be our ankle) was really swollen... So we watched it for the rest of the weekend and he wasnt eating/going to the bathroom/ just laying around all day. Monday I called the vet and they got him in right away. They kept him overnight and ended up doing an Xray on it...He has a hairline fracture so they had to splint it up. Poor guy. Tuesday I got to go pick him up from the vet. so now he's living in the basement so he doesnt have to do the stairs and he doesnt have to hop to far to his litter box, bed, and food. poor guy. We go back next week to see how its doing, and then again in another 6 weeks to have more xrays done on it and hopefully get the splint off ot it. He hate thes plint. he's chewing on it and we dont know what we can do to stop himfrom chewingon it... Poor guy! :(

This was right when we got home from the vet Tuesday

Wichita Karate Tournament

Well Cory had a Karate tournament this weekend in Wichita. So saturday we headed there... and he took first in everything. After the Tournament we came back to Hutch and changed clothes then we went to Amy's daughter's birthday party at the skating rink here in Hutchinson. So, we went there and I had never been there before so it was fun to go rollerskating just like at Golden Sands up north!! Brought back many old memories. We hung out there with them til about 4:00. We came home and got ready to go out for dinner with Jason and Krista at Chili's. We met them there about 5:30. dinner was very good. They were busy. Anyways.. Today we went out for Breakfast to Sirloin Stockade and then to walmart for groceries then home... Now just catching up on some movies we had around here for awhile.