Life with the Lehmans

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Whitman is 20th best college in US!

Jimmy and I are very excited about this. This is pretty good considering there are 4,000+ colleges in the United States.

Check out these links:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank.html

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/02/colleges-university-ratings-opinions-colleges-09-intro.html

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Rhubarb Pie

Rhubarb was on sale at the grocery store and Jimmy decided to make his mom's famous rhubarb pie! I am very proud of Jimmy's baking abilities and the pie was very YUMMY!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Last Saturday, Jimmy and I babysat Mia and she spent the night! Mia is a good kid, so we weren't worried at all. It was actually a lot easier than we thought. The only problem we had was that she didn't want to go to bed because she wanted to stay up and play with the cats!

Jimmy and Mia working on an art project

Mia and her mom, Shannon, my BFF and gym buddy

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Warped Tour @ VA Beach

Last week, Jimmy and I went to Virginia Beach for a few days. I'm so glad we went again because Jimmy was sick the last time. We spent the first day at the Warped Tour and enjoyed ourselves very much. We were definitely older than most of the attendees and it was extremely hot, but stayed for more than 7 hours! We had a BLAST! ;0)

We spent the rest of the time hanging out at the beach at Fort Story. We just relaxed, read, people watched, and admired the huge battleships that sailed near the beach. We would love to go back again before the summer is over.

Jimmy is going to kill me for this! He forgot his sunglasses so begged me to borrow mine... what a DORK ;0)

Friday, July 24, 2009

Ally

We recently had a loss in the small Lehman family. One of our cats, Ally, passed away on July 19th. She was going to turn six next month, which makes the loss so much more unexpected and heartbreaking than usual. Ally's kidneys gave way on her and although we did everything we could for her there was little we could do in the end.

Ally's personality was one of the most unique I have ever seen in a cat. Mary and I always joked about how she acted more like a dog or a person than a cat. She would actually play fetch with milk-ties and would beg for food in the kitchen, sometimes to the point of annoyance, whenever I would open the refrigerator. Her paw would find itself in your cereal bowl pulling it to her, if you weren't careful, and she loved licking the remnants of an ice-cream sandwich wrapper. She was the only one of our cats that we allowed to go outside, although it was sparingly and always under my supervision. She would just roll on the ground and chomp the grass and just lie low like she was in the jungle. She loved watching birds from the window and terrorizing the other cats simply with her stare. It was amazing the dominance that this small cat could command without throwing a simple blow. She allied herself more with me than Mary, which is why I think it is hitting me so hard.

Although most of you have met Ally through your visits with us in the past, I wanted to write this blog for those of you who never got a chance to meet her. Mary and I truly put our animals on equal footing with any other family member and Ally will always be missed. Hopefully this commemoration will do her justice. Take care Ally. Hopefully you will have all the ham and grass that you wish for.

This is a cute picture of Ally from August of 2008.

Ally a month after Mary found her in a mall parking lot.

This is one of my favorite Ally pictures. We always joke about how it looks like she is praying.

This picture was taken around April of this year. Ally and I were enjoying the outside while I was cooking.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Virginia Beach

Jennifer came to visit us last Tuesday. We had a fun time despite Jimmy and I coming down with the flu!

We went to Virginia Beach and stayed in a cabin at Fort Story. The cabin was awesome! It had 2 bedrooms, a loft, full kitchen, air conditioning and a bathroom... now, that's my idea of "roughing it!"

The loft

The weather was perfect, so we spent most of our time relaxing at the beach. Jennifer and I rented a two person kayak and had an adventure in the ocean ;0) We also went to the main boardwalk area and walked around for a few hours. It was such a nice relaxing trip.

The Beach at Fort Story... since you had to be military to have access to this beach, there weren't very many people there. It was so very quiet, peaceful, and relaxing. We loved it!

Poor Jimmy, he was sick the whole time we were there :(

Jennifer and I

Mermaid Jennifer

Pirate Mary

Rasta Jenn, ha ha ha

Jennifer's Bad Azz Tiger

Jenn in the Atlantic Ocean!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Germany

Our BFF's the Vasquez Family are leaving for Germany in August. Jimmy and I are very sad, but sure we will meet again sometime in the near future. Who knows, maybe the Lehman's will get orders to Germany too!

Here are some pictures from their going away dinner at Texas De Brazil.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Colonial Downs Racetrack

Jimmy was selected to be honored at the Colonial Downs Horse Racetrack in our area. We were there with 8 other Army Families and we had a blast! Limos came to pick us up and drove us to the race track which is about one hour away. They gave us a private suite with our own balcony, bar, waitstaff, endless food, and betting machine. A race was dedicated to each Army family and then we were interviewed. We felt like high rollers!