What is Kailey up to now?

She has picked up the skill to:

*point her index finger when asked how old she is.
*toss both arms over her head when told to exclaim"touchdown".
*will say "aawww" when she sees a baby or hugs.
*she will go to her chair when we say it's dinner time and towards her tub at bath time.


Oh, and she loves being able to play with the ducks at the park:

Kailey is 17 months old today!!!

September 23, 2008

Hello.... Hard to believe, but Miss Kailey is almost 17 months old! From the non-Kailey-news, I have begun my new job at CITGO as a Feedstock Trader. There is a lot to learn, but I like the challenge and the change.

Now, back to the important stuff....we spent last weekend in San Antonio. Saturday was spent at Sea World. Pics are below:

Then we played outside when we got back home:

And ate dinner before it was finally "night night time":

Pics

The sky just a few hours before Hurricane Ike came to Katy:

Some landscape impacts from Ike:

Re: Ike aftermath

My power came back on at 1230 today. It was out for about 90 hours. The generator is now off!


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Ike aftermath

Good evening everyone....it's Monday night. Kailey is asleep. Shelli is reading, and I am watching tv. It's great; I can either watch two of our spanish tv stations, one local channel with continuous hurricane coverage, or one channel that may or may not be a local channel.....the reception is just that bad.

Ok, so the facts....
Our power has been off for 74 hours. It went off Friday evening around 1900. We have run my generator constantly since Saturday morning.

Gas can be found, but it normally involves a wait in line. It's as cheap as $3.30/gal....the generator uses about 15 gallons per day.

TV....like I said above, we don't have much to choose from. I literally made an antenna out of some old coax, a coat hanger, bailing wire, and some electrical tape......it works ok.

Internet & phone?....yeah right! We have neither. If you've emailed me at mi.barrett@yahoo.com, I haven't seen it. My blackberry still gets the random mbarret@citgo.com email. However, the connections are poor and slow....just overloaded.

House? No damage.....neighbors lost some shingles and some trees...but we are ok. I spent some time today cutting grass and picking up limbs....from the outside, things look normal.

Work? They sent us home at noon on thursday and are asking us to come back tuesday morning. During Gustav, I was very busy with work. Ike has been a lot more calm for me because I have no way of connecting or contributing. However, I also have trained my replacement....but haven't been trained on my new job. Later this month, I'll start training as a "Senior Feedstock Trader".....more on that after I know more to share.

Thanks for all of your calls and emails....

I guess that about covers it....

Enjoy your week's...

MB

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Ike Ike Baby

To all of you have been so interested in what Shelli, Kailey, and I have done ahead of Hurricane Ike; thank you for you concerns and I am sorry for not being as available as I would want. Work with CITGO and preparing the house for the onset of winds have taken up all of my time. Please don't assume that what you see in the media for Galveston will what happens for where we live. Katy is about 70 miles from the Gulf on the northwest side of Texas. We have plenty of food, a generator, and most of the windows boarded up. We have just a few hours until winds pick back up...I'll try to post again first thing in the morning.