caught

the clouds have been rolling in all morning. as ryan and i finished our delicious lunch, i decided that we should run to the mailbox really quick to drop some things off and see if we had anything. note: our mailbox is not far from our house...maybe like a city block (even though we live in a neighborhood, not a city!). we got about five steps off our porch and noticed some really large raindrops falling, kind of sporatically. all of a sudden, it got a little bit harder and we realized those drops were actually hitting us pretty hard...turns out-hail! i took off running for our mail box and ryan just laughed at me...then, as it started hailing harder, he started sprinting, too. we got to our little covered mailbox area and got our mail...and looked out to see the hail coming down even bigger and harder...we had no choice, but to run to our house, so off we went.. i put our mail on my head for a little protection, but unfortunately, we both got pelted all the way home!! we aren't talking little hail either... like softball size, i'm sure!! okay, actually more like nickel size, but chunks of ice falling hard from the sky sting a little regardless the size! and wouldn't you know, not 5 minutes after we got back into our safe little house, the storm ended! anyway, just thought i'd share... it's actually supposed to start cooling off here, which is awesome! it's already cooler after the storm...




ps i can tell i'm not quite used to the thin air (and that i haven't ran in a while), my lungs were hurting terribly after our little run!

also, i know i posted pictures of our townhouse before we actually moved all of our stuff in. as we get things unpacked and set up, i thought i'd share some pictures. these are from our kitchen (the flowers are the ones from glenn and carol, that apparently didn't upload last time!).



and one last picture.. the clouds near our house looked INCREDIBLE last night..we tried to get a good picture, but ended up with only decent ones...