HAPPY NEW YEAR

This week has flown by. We were in Texas just Fri-Mon last week, which is entirely too short! I guess I have to pay my dues being the "new girl" at work. Christmas vacation is determined by seniority and 3 out of 8 of us have been working at Parker for 20+ years. Niiiice. The next person ahead of me has 5 years under her belt, so I'm pretty much staring down a no-Chritmas vacation destiny for quite awhile.

We had tons of fun on our short trip though. I will post pics as soon as we get our real computer set up. For now, I'm using Matt's work laptop every now and then, but it's not set up w/our little docking station.

Matt's under the weather....so no big new year's plans for us! Just two old married folk and a beagle watching tv by the fire (which is not too shabby in my opinion. Man, I turned into an old married lady pretty quick)! Yesterday we went to the walk-in treatment center to try to get Matt some antibiotics. They told us it would be a 20 minute wait. After 2 hours sitting in hard chairs in a freezing cold waiting room, we finally gave up. Matt seemed worse for the wear after not being in bed for that long, so he's on my self-concocted regimine of alka seltzer effervescent and tussin. Hope it works because he's scheduled for some Rose Bowl action this week.

More later taters.

Merry Christmas!

We are in Texas!!

Merry Christmas to all.

Movin and Groovin

We started moving today! We don't officially close until Monday, but the owners let us have the keys on Friday. I took a bunch of pics but left the camera over at the new house, so I will post all the "before" shots sometime soon.

We have already made a few improvements: Matt installed a new wax ring for the toilet (an absolutely disgusting, yet neccesary task), I replaced all the nasty gold cabinet hardware with new "brushed nickel" (oh so trendy). And we went down in the crawl space to patch up the furnace ducts. I tell you, that was an adventure! We were down there duct taping the ducts (how appropriate) when I looked over and saw a little pair of beady green eyes staring at me through the darkness. FREAK OUT. Turned out to just be a nice fat cat with a collar, so I guess he was just out for a nap in our CRAWL SPACE. Weird cat. Guess I'm the skerrdy cat! It's not so fun to jump three feet when you're in a three foot crawl space...

Now we are back at the old house swaping the washer/dryer that came with the new house for our set. I use the term "we" rather loosely. You all know I have no muscles :) Poor husband is doing all the manual laber. He prefers to do the lifting and I do the organizing/cleaning. Works for me! I hate to sweat :)

We'll keep you posted on the new adventure.

In other news, I had a traumatic Friday when I looked down at my wedding ring and a prong was BROKEN OFF. My diamond was just flailing about. Teeter Totter. As if it didn't have a care in the world. This wouldn't be so bad IF 1). Matt hasn't been telling me to get the ring insured for about 4 months 2). It wasn't Matt's mom's diamond that is on the loose 3). I had listened to the jeweler when she told me to sauder the bands together because they were going to rub and a prong would eventually break. So now I look newly engaged with a single band solitaire until I can get my wedding band fixed. Maybe we'll go out tonight and see if people will send champagne to our table as a congratulatory gesture...

Bon Noir mi Amigos

Rose Bowl Blues...

Today the "limited number" of Rose Bowl tickets that Ticketmaster had were released for sale at 11am EST. Matt sent out a huge email to all his co-workers (and some of mine!) pleading for us all to get online and refresh/refresh/refresh until we got some tickets for him and his dad to go watch the Longhorns in Pasadena. Now, this is a HUGE deal for Hubby. He and Dean bought their plane tix in SEPTEMBER because they were so confident that Tx was going to the Rose Bowl (never you mind that they ensured the tix were refundable before they bought them- side note from the token Aggie). Anyway, no such luck with all that clicking going on. I think Ticketmaster must've had about 4 tickets that they released today.
Boooooooo
Hisssssss
So, if anyone has alumni connections or anything along those lines and can get my sweet Hubby tix - let us know!!!!!!!!!!!!! Believe me, you will be Matteo's favorito amigo.

HoHoHo

Three Ho's for the all-Christmas, all the time radio station.

HoHoHo!!

Merry Christmas!

On that "note" (pun intended!!!), posted on the entrance door at Nville Wal-Mart was a typed up sign that said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS From Your Nicholasville Wal-Mart!" At first glance, you'd think - 'Tis the Season, right? Oh no - I totally think it's a slap in the face to Target who's employees are only allowed to say "Happy Holidays" this year. All this right next to the Salvation Army girl ringing her bell. Last year's controversy was Target not allowing the bell-ringers. So "Bah Humbug" to Tar-get' and Rock on Wally World.

Peace on Earth - except at retailers...

We finally went to a UK basketball game last night! After living here 2 years, it took free tickets to finally get us to go! A co-worker had extra tickets and I was the lucky recipient. Fun times! Of course, we are still partial to the Aggies and the Longhorns. After going to several different college bball games, I'm totally shocked at how awesome A&M's arena is compared to everyone else's - considering the fact that our team stinks!! Oh well, at least they look good doing it...

In other news, Molly has recovered from her weird spell and we are moving right along with the house. Mortgage, insurance, all that fun stuff. Set to close on 12/12.

Our buddy, Felty, who visited this weekend! Surprise, you're famous now - you made "the blog!"


Matt, running away from me taking his picture, at church.

This weekend flew by! We have been super busy and have had a great time this weekend.

Congratulations to Karen and Joe! They were married on Saturday in a beautiful ceremony followed by an extremely fun reception! Best wishes to the new couple! We were having so much fun that I forgot to take pics!!!

Matt's friend from HS, Chris Felty, is here visiting this weekend as well and we have enjoyed just hanging out with him and having fun.

Molly's had a rough weekend, though. She's been having some kind of "fit" where she is screaming in pain. It breaks my heart to see her like this, but aspirin seems to help. She's going to see Dr. Dan tomorrow so I'm sure she'll be better soon!

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Movin' on UP ....(to the NORTH side)!

Yup, we're moving!!! (Again, I know)! But now that I have a job and we are both working on the north side of Lexington this is going to be great!! We currently are at least 30 minutes SOUTH of Lexington so this will shave about 45 minutes off of Matt's commute and I'll only be 10 minute from work!!! The house needs a little bit of sprucing up, but it's going to be fun to paint, etc! I'll post pictures as soon as I have some! WE're particularly excited about coming home for lunch. Yipppeeee!

My job is going great. I LOVE having a job that I actually enjoy and working in a professional environment. I'm SO thankful to be out of my last position and moving (notice a trend?) on with our life.

Matt's been asked to continue giving sermons at Hopewell Presbyterian church so he's very excited to be able to have time for both of his loves: computers during the work week and preaching on Sundays! The church has about 15 people in attendance and the people are great!

Lots of changes for us --- COME AND VISIT!!!

Detroit!

We're headed off to Detroit again this weekend. Matt's grandma's church - UMC Ferndale - is having a gala on Saturday night. Grandma Fleharty bought a whole table for the event and we will be her guests for the dinner and auction. I'm sure I will post pics early next week!

Thankful Day!

My college roommate, Laura, had her first baby girl last night - Lillian Grace! We're thankful that Alex was able to be home from his Navy duty for the birth and that all is well for mom and baby!

Congratulations, Scogin Family!

Workin Woman

I started my new job on Monday! So far it is great! Very overwhelming with everything I have to learn, but still interesting. My co-workers seem great, I can't wait to get to know them. Sadly, though, this may mean less blogging...I'll do my best as to not dissapoint the masses :)

Happy Halloween from Matt, the Ballerina!

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Molly the Pirate and Matt the Princess Ballerina!

Gatlinburg pics are posted HERE. Will write more later :)

Keeneland

Mom and Dad Kilgore are coming to visit today!! They should arrive this afternoon. This weekend we're all headed to Gatlinburg, TN to meet up with Kristi and Lex. It's pretty close to the middle for us all so it seems like a good meeting place. Mom and Dad rented a cabin so we're all going to hang out and relax (and eat a lot)! For some crazy reason, the cabin doesn't allow pets. Not even cute beagles (weird, I know). So Molly is going to a kennel - I mean, Pet Resort. We told her she's going camping, but I don't think she buys it.

I probably won't blog again until early next week, so...be good until then my peeps!

Puppy Tears

Most people don't believe me when I tell them that Molly cries REAL tears when she's upset, so I thought I'd post this picture of her with her big ole sad puppy tears for you to all see. This was taken this morning after Molly went to the vet for a vaccination. Poor little puppy!

Hopewell

This weekend Matt gave the sermon at Hopewell Presbyterian church in Paris, KY. He was AWESOME! My hubby is getting so great at giving sermons. I'm so proud of him! This church has about 15 people in attendance and has asked him to continue to give the sermons. To quote one member, (Matt)"just brings the life back into this church that has been missing for so long."

Love you, Hubby!