Man, I feel like I'm always playing catch up with my blog! I cannot believe that it's been over a month since I've posted anything. I really enjoy blogging but it definitely isn't something that I crave doing after spending all day on the computer at work. I envy my friend, Ashley, who is much more dedicated than I am about it. I wish I could just think what I want to post and it would show up in my blog! Ha.
Well, this last month has been filled with work, Easter, work, baseball, work, storm chasing, work and a bit of fun. As you can imagine work has completely kicked my butt lately. I have been super stressed about it and super exhausted. It's really been bringing me down, but I'm going to try to go into this next week with a better attitude! I just hope I can keep it up. Fingers crossed. Thank goodness that I have this patio to come home to. It's the perfect place to kick up your feet, people watch and have a glass of wine or a brew!
Here's a few fun things that we've done...
April brought about my inaugural storm chase! I've been wanting to do this for quite a few years now, but the opportunity just hasn't presented itself. Moving closer to the vastness they call Kansas has helped though. Storm chasing is a lot of planning & driving (hours and hours to be exact) for about a 30 min rush of adrenaline if you get lucky. I'm told that I was very lucky, because many times storm chasers don't even see a tornado. I'm so glad that we did! It was my first sighting while chasing (second sighting of my life) and Chad's second sighting. Here's a pic of our tornado. This was at dusk and almost impossible to see unless it was lightning.
...and if spotting a tornado wasn't enough, we also spotted the Dominator!!! Yahoo!! (You must be a fan of the show Storm Chasers to have any idea what I'm talking about.) I was almost as excited to see them as I was the tornado. How exciting to be chasing the same storm. Here's a video from Reed of the same tornado we were chasing in Heston, KS. Very cool!!
April has also brought us the start of baseball...and while I was bummed to miss out on all the Cardinals' Opening Day festivities that I've religiously taken part in the last 10 years, we were still happy to attend the Royals' Opening Day. The hype was much less than in St. Louis, but it was still a good time...and much, much cheaper. It was my first experience with tail gating, which I thoroughly enjoy now. We also were able to take in one weeknight game while my St. Louis work friends were in town. Here's a couple pics...
Geno's last trip to KC as a HCUSA employee. We'll miss you Gene!
Here's me and Rebecca! She's been "visiting" me at least one a month to help me with training at work.
Last weekend was the first Delaware Wine Walk of the season. This event is pretty awesome because it's on our street!! For a small fee, which goes to charity, you visit local businesses on the street and they pour wine for you. This month's wine was from a local KS winery...Somerset. While I cannot say the wine was very good, it was definitely a fun event. We found businesses that we didn't even know were near us. Here's some pics from this event...
The line outside our building to visit the business
that's on the first floor.
A lady drawing a mural at the salon where we get our hair done...The Glam Room.
Another pic of the venue across the street from our building...Cafe al Dente.
This weekend my Mom and Judy came to visit and help me pick out a wedding gown. I will not be posting any wedding dress pics on my blog, but feel free to email me if you want to see the dress. It was so wonderful to have them here with me for this special day. Thanks again, ladies!!!!
