Dancing with the Stars... I mean Dancing with Devon!

So one of my favorite shows to watch in the evening is Dancing with the Stars. I especially enjoy watching big macho athletes succeed in dancing! Well, the last couple of shows, my 2 year old has not allowed me to really watch as he wants to dance just like the big macho athletes! He loves to dance anyway but when it comes to Dancing with the Stars, he has to dance with Mommy. When the music stops though, so does Devon! I wish I had video of it but he loves to have me twirl him and do the lifts with him and when the dance is over, he claps as though he is the greatest dancer alive! He's too much like his Daddy! :D

Swing County ~ Swing State

Here is a great story on how Hamilton County... where I live, helped Obama win Ohio!!

CNN anchor John Roberts recapped the national election this way: "It is probably Hamilton County that gave Barack Obama Ohio. That was what really began to seal the deal. Florida, Virginia - just gravy on top of that."

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081106/NEWS0106/811060355

Ohio for Obama!!

Yes We Can.... And Yes We Did!!!

"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. But America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there." ~ Barack Obama

The day has come when a Black man can and will be the next President of the United States!! I can't explain the feelings I felt last night as I watched abc announce the projected winner of each state! Then when they announced the next President of the United States would be Barack Obama! It proves that people are sick of the Republican way, the scare tactics, the lets tell them this, so we can get our way and take all of their money and we will live comfortably while the American People struggle! Obama ran a respectful campaign where there were no scare tactics, he focused on the issues, not Sarah Palin's inexperience, or her daughter's teenage out-of-wedlock pregnancy cause those were not the issues affecting the American People. He took the high road when it came out that Palin's teenage daughter was pregnant and said they were off limits and he wishes them well. The McSame/Falin camp allowed people to chant "kill Obama" during their ralling as if they were the foreman of the KKK. Well guess what KKK, a strong Black man IS the next President of the United States! And God will protect him and his beautiful family! God Bless America and it's new First Family!

God Bless America!

It's now Election Day! I pray for change and I pray that Barack Obama and his family is safe and protected during these emotional and historical times! I pray God takes care of us Americans who are struggling! With God, all things are possible!

The raccoon we caught...

Too bad, a week later I was looking out kitchen window and his buddy was chillin' on our window sill! But there is one less than before!

The Winds from Hurricane Ike

So it started out a normal day, just a little windy. I remember thinking to myself "man, it's windy out there, I guess it will be a windy day." Then I did some homework and then went to the store. Well I forgot to get some stuff at the store, so I went out and also got gas. Well as I was driving home, over tree branches that had fallen from the strong winds, I started thinking, I need to get home. Side note, as I was driving to the store a second time, the traffic lights up the street went out in front of me. Then Jamie called to tell me the power went out. Well I was driving home and there was a bus in front of me and a tree in front of him split in two and covered the entire side of the street the bus and I were driving on were now covered by a large tree branch... 2 and a half lanes large. The bus and I had to drive into oncoming traffic to get around it. It had landed on a parked car. So then I really knew I had to get home. I had never seen so many brnaches in the road before in my life. So when I got home, Jamie, me and the kids watched tree branches and trees snap in half out of our kitchen window. We also watched out tree sway back and forth and if it had been raining, it surely would have gone and landed on our neighbors Escalade. There is a video below showing the strength of the winds. I wish I would have let it record a little longer. Well, our power came back on at 5:30 the next morning, so we didn't loose any food but my office didn't get power back until Wednesday late evening and the storm occured on Sunday Sept 14 and the babysitter lost power until Sunday at 5:30 pm. She was without power for a whole week! My office has been ssssooooooooooooo busy since the storm up until a few days ago, things are back to normal now.

All the shrub looking stuff below the pine tree is trees snapped in 2

The 2 sections of our fence blew over

Some of the branches that fell from the neighbors yard into our yard.

Don't know if you can see it, but in the middle, you can see a light brown dot,

that is where a branch snapped off