A Lot of Time has Passed

I don't even know where to begin, so many things have happened since the last time we blogged. Instead of boring you with all the details I will just give you a quick summary and include a few pictures that will hopefully say more than my own words.

The circle pastry is the amazing donut king cake that I wrote about in a previous blog.

The Mardi Gras mask is from our Valentines weekend in New Orleans where we enjoyed the Mardi Gras parades.

The cute cottage B&B is from our mini vacation to New Iberia and Avery Island.

The bridge and water pictures are from Avery Island.

The last two photos are from the Strawberry Festival in Ponchatula. Jordan tried to get Nasby to fee the animals.

Strawberry Festival in Ponchatula...Jordan and Sheralyn...Jordan and Nasby at the Petting Zoo

A sad goodbye

It is a sad goodbye to "Abby". If you aren't familiar with this name "Abby" is the name of my car. For the remainder of the story I will refer to my old red Pontiac Aztek as "Abby".

On to the real story. On the 26th of February on my way to work I was in a hit and run...I was not the runner. I must follow by saying the Lord's protection during the wreck was amazing. I walked away with only a tiny scratch on my leg from kicking the emergency break during the impact.

The bad news is that "Abby" took a hard hit and the repair totals exceeded the value of the car so the insurance company decided to total the old girl.

As we search for a new mode of transportation I have very high expectations for my new girl. Not only was Abby a great little ride there are so many memories that were created while I had her. Many of you reading are a part of those memories so maybe you will recognize a few like camping, and drive-in movies on cold nights, one of the first times Jordan held my hand and our first kiss standing just outside of the driver side door when he puckered up and said "kiss me", carting kids to camp with FBC Shallowater, and many many road trips.

Here are a few pictures of the old girl in her glory days and then of the totaled version...

Here is to Abby the best car I've had so far....the memories created with friends and family live on.

Mardi Gras

HAPPY MARDI GRAS!!!

That's right today is the official day to celebrate Mardi Gras also known as Fat Tuesday. Here in Louisiana especially in the south it is an official holiday. The schools let out for Monday, Tuesday and some even Wednesday. Many businesses are on skeleton crew or closed period. Jordan and I are both working today since people still get sick and still need counseling even on the holiday.
It is on this day that several of the larger towns like Lafayette, New Roads, Lake Charles, and New Orleans have parades going on all day long. Many of these towns including ours have had parades going on since the first of February. At these parades the floats are loaded with people that throw beads of all kind and people go crazy to try to get the float passing to throw them beads. I have to say Jordan and I experienced the transformation that happens when you are standing on the side of the parade route and the float begins to throw beads. It is like you forget how old you are and just start yelling and jumping up and down waving your arms to draw attention to yourself in order to get a handful of beads. I was especially fond of the pearl beads they throw so I yelled for those most of the time. If you are still reading this randomness about our parade experience I have to tell you a funny that happened to me.
At the end of a parade we were watching last weekend all the floats parked after the parade so we ran over to see if they still had things to through. Boy did they....it was like the float was throwing up. They were throwing beads by the bag full and stacks of plastic cups. Well I went to jump and reach for a stack of cups coming our way and when I did I jumped and the cups hit me on the head making a loud thud (guess that means my head is hollow). Ouch! Jordan busted out laughing and needless to say I got one cup out of the stack.
Another tradition that goes along with the Mardi Gras season is this wonderful baked good called "King Cake". It is a fabulous ring of baked bread that is usually filled with cinnamon and covered with purple, green, and gold icing. Of course each bakery and market has their own variation of this cake so you can find them made with cream cheese filling, chocolate filling, pecans and pralines....these are just to name a few that we have seen. Jordan and I tried a king cake this weekend that was made by a donut shop in town and it was out of this world delicious. The ring is made like a giant twist donut and in the twist is chocolate filling and if that isn't enough sweet it is topped with green, purple, and gold glaze. I am embarrassed to say we bought it on Sunday and this morning (Tuesday) when I left for work there was only about a 1/4 of it left. YUM YUM!!!
Stay tuned for pictures of our parade experience and the amazing king cake to come.

An Average Saturday Night

It's been a while since our last post and we apologize for not keeping you updated more frequently. I am having to get back into the routine of working and keeping up with the house. It's amazing how a short time off can get you out of that routine. Jordan is busy working in his internal medicine rotation this month in fact I am at the hospital spending the evening with him in between patients and pages. I have been training every Saturday for the past four weeks and just finished up with my last domestic violence training today so I am relieved that I will not be working Saturdays for a while. My new job is going well. I am still training so I have lots to learn about domestic violence and the resources that this community has to offer to women and their children and sometimes men (because they too can be abused in relationships). Today I spent the day learning about the laws here in Louisiana specifically, Family Law. I find it very interesting because Louisiana has such influence from the Napoleonic law.....I think that is how they refer to it.
Other than work and taking advantage of the time out of work to hang out with our friends and each other there is not much else going on here.