Kung Fu Panda, Storms and Town Lake

Our family just got home from Kung Fu Panda. Kid Cuisine is one of the ConAgra brands and they are one of the sponsors for the movie, so they had a special screening for ConAgra employees. Here's the irony - Derek barely made it home in time to go to this company sponsored event, but his work schedule is topic for another post... It was such a cute movie. The Panda is adorable, funny and animated so well. My only concern was that since it was a Kung Fu movie, there was a lot of hitting involved. We had a great time and recommend it!


On another note - we have had some wicked weather lately! Tornadoes to the left of us, hailstorms to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle...! It seems like every night lately there is a severe weather alert going on. We had to take Horton down, since she doesn't like strong winds, and I have two peony bushes at the end of my driveway that were looking quite lovely until the HUGE storm raged through last night. Last year during one of our huge storms the 30 foot trees between our house and our neighbors was struck by lightening and landed in our driveway. Then during the first freeze of the winter, another tree split right in two from the weight of the ice on it's branches. Derek and I wonder after storms if we're going to find another tree toppled. The two that have already fallen were our neighbors, so we're thankfully not responsible for getting them cleaned up.

This morning I went on a walk around Lake Zorinsky with my friend Amy (I always have a friend named Amy in whatever city we live in) and it started to rain on us. Lake Zorinsky is a nice enough lake but you can't boat on it - so what's the point? But there are walking trails around it and it's nice. But walking there today made me think of my beloved Town Lake in Austin, and it made me miss Maren. Maren and I would load up our boys and go walking every week around Town Lake, which is really a river but everything has to be bigger in Texas so they call it a lake. We did a 3 mile loop that was so beautiful and we always had so much fun. I really miss the lake and my dear friend! Maren and Dustin were our "perfect couple". All four of us got along so well and were so much alike. Does anyone else feel like at times you and your spouse are trying out other couples to be friends with and it's a bit like courting them?

Well, anyway, it's been a fun day. Oh, and Bryce has decided to take his bubblegum medicine. After two truly nasty shots in the legs he figured out that maybe the medicine wasn't quite so bad.