I can’t even remember what my last post was about, so I had to open up the homepage to see what it is- okay, I posted about the KY State Fair and also dinner with my dad’s side of the family- and I learned how to post a picture from Flickr.com

A few weeks ago, we had a “birthday party” for Ben’s grandmother, but it was in the hospital. It was a little sad. They had decided to put her into an assisted living community after a year and a half of family staying the night with her and a nurse aide during the day. She has had Parkinson’s for several years, but has gotten worse and now dementia and the medication for dementiaParkinson’s- she’s just not herself and it’s difficult to witness.

A week after moving there, she had a minor fall. And another fall the next day. They took her to the hospital for some tests, observation, and rehabilitation. She was there for about 2 weeks and then her birthday came. They were able to reserve a “Family room” for us, so they brought her favorite type of cake- an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.I was glad that we all could get together- but seeing her and realizing what shape she was in- was difficult and it had been heart breaking on her children. It’s been about 2 weeks now, and they have moved her into a nursing home now. Well, that’s terrible- I just went to Flickr to grab a picture of her and I couldn’t even find one! Ack!

Now, on to something not so sad. I did the Fiesta Run 3 Mile race with Lynn and her friend Jenn.

It was a night race and was pretty neat. It was still hot and humid- but it was fun- but a challenge!

We had some visitors from Ben’s work from the Ukraine. They arrived on a Wednesday evening and we picked them up from the airport, drove them pass Churchill Downs, the UL football stadium, and took them to dinner at Cracker Barrel. We also took them to Brendan’s for a tech meet-up and then to Graeter’s for ice cream. They enjoyed trying the different flavors and settled with a scoop of chocolate chip in a waffle cone.

We went to the Bats baseball game on Friday night, with the rest of the Louisville team.

We dropped them back at the airport on Saturday morning. I was sad to see them go!

and then Ben and I went to the KY State Fair. He doesn’t go on the first day with the rest of my family, so we normally go first thing on Saturday morning!

Here’s Freddie and me:

We also saw some of the Horse Show:

Okay, what else? Oh yea, school started back. It’s on Tuesday nights from 6 to 8:45, so it’s nothing like my last summer class that when until 10:45 and then I had a 25 minute drive home. I’m taking Marketing, so it’s interested to me, but there’s a lot of reading!

Last weekend we went downtown to see some of the Iron Man competition. It’s just awesome. Can’t really say much else about it. Last year, I knew someone doing it, so that made it more fun to try to track them down. This year, we just went to 4th Street Live, where it finished with them completing the marathon portion. Here’s all our pictures, but here are a few favorites:


I’ll say this- sports photography is hard- so much to capture!

Then, we went to the Louisville Zombie Walk. I just realized that I still haven’t uploaded any pictures from that. I guess I’ll have to make it a separate post! Sorry it’s been so long!

During one of my runs, I started thinking about priorities and realized that things have shifted around lately- or maybe I just have realized it, but anyway- Priorities matter, so make sure what you have made a priority really is a priority. Cheers!

Wow, a busy day with family.

I spent most of the day craft shopping with Angela’s family, including lunch at a Japanese hibachi style restaurant. Angela got an iPod touch, so we spent time setting it up too!

We had our now traditional Friday night dinner with my brother and his wife and Angela.

Then Benjamin and I decided at the last minute to go to the free MC Hammer concert at the fair. We got there as he was finishing the 1st song. I took some videos and will upload them.

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Today, we went to the KY State Fair. It’s our family tradition. Ever since I graduated from high school, I have been able to go. Elementary and High School always started the same week and I wasn’t always able to go, but for about the last 10 years, I have been able to go. There’s normally about 10 to 12 of us.

We got there around 8:30 and I stayed until 5. It’s a long, but fun day. Here’s one of the group pictures.

All 6 of us that entered something, got a ribbon! I got a 2nd place on my bag.

Here is a better image of the cupcakes. I took a dozen to work today to celebrate a co-workers birthday and I brought the other dozen to a family gathering tonight.

My step mom came to town from Arizona and the whole family is going to the State Fair tomorrow!

I got home from work, the gym, and a local group meet-up around 8:45 tonight and I STILL had to make icing ad ice the cupcakes for work tomorrow.

Thank goodness I baked them last night. I made the icing from scratch (butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla) although I had a can on reserve in case something happened.

They turned out okay. I really need to practice icing them.

They are for a co-workers birthday!

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Here is the dough recipe.

Here is the end result. I took more pictures as I made it, but I am still uploading them.

It’s an iPhone picture  Sorry

I dropped off my things this morning.

Here is my Christmas Apron

The Christmas table runner and gathered pillow:

Baby Blanket that I made yesterday:

Patterned on one side and solid on the other:

Baby bib:

Diaper Bag:

Half Apron:

Full apron:

I read this book about a year or two ago and really liked it. She travels to Italy, India, and Bali- so I loved that aspect.

When I found out that they were making it into a movie AND that Julia Roberts was going to be in it- I decided that I wanted to go. So here we are! I hope it’s good!

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As a student with IU, we get some good software. It’s almost worth it just to take a class to get all the perks- such as software and training. I am also taking an online  tutorial class through Lynda.com given by Chris Orwig. Here are some below and afters of the making of a birthday card on Sunday.

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I made another item for the State Fair tonight- a baby bib. I’ve made it before and it only took 2 pieces of fabric, so it went pretty quickly.

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