May Daze

It is so hard to believe it is already Memorial Day Weekend. May has gone sooo fast! We started out the month with some visitors for the Derby. The Derby Roster included: Micah Peters, Tate Johnson, Shelby Knutson, Bob Hodgson, Melanie Andersen, and Louisvillians Joe & Melinda Price. We enjoyed the Derby Festivities from the infield of Churchill Downs. The "Booze Belts" once again worked to get the goods past the Security Guards. We didn't see a lot of the horses in the races (it is so packed in the infield, you can only see the races on the huge jumbo TV's around the track) but we did see a lot of crazies in the infield.


I am sorry to say that no one won big off their bets - so everyone had to go back home and back to work/school the Monday after. We were sad to see everyone go, but there is next year: DERBY 135. So start making plans to attend!

We also were visited by Cori's sister Cara and her boyfriend Matt. They had just finished up their Freshman Year of college and needed a break before going home to Rapid City, SD. We had a great time with them. We went to the Louisville Zoo, hiking in the Jefferson Memorial Forest and Cori and Cara got tattoos from a guy named Psycho. We had a great time!

Kentucky Derby 2008

134th Run for the Roses

BIG BROWN WINS!

photos from the Courier-Journal

Mini Marathon

On April 26th, we both finished the Kentucky Derby Mini Marathon (13.1 miles) in a little over 2 hours. There were about 12,000 runners that participated in the Mini Marathon and Marathon. The course wrapped its way around the city of Louisville: through some of the parks, a trip around the infield of Churchill Downs, and finished downtown.

Thunder Over Louisville

Sorry Everyone about not updating this lately - our computer is on the fritz!

We are counting down the days to Derby....but we wanted to catch everyone up on what is going on.

The Kick-Off to the Kentucky Derby Festival is Thunder Over Louisville - one of the biggest firework displays in the US. It usually draws 500,000-750,00 people along the Ohio River and the fireworks are shot from barges in the river and the bridges.

Signs of Spring...

We hope you all had a Happy Easter! We shared the day with Murphy and Oakley in Hoosier National Forest in Indiana. We went for a hike to enjoy the beautiful day. We saw many signs of spring: sunshine, flowers growing, trees budding, birds chirping ... and then it started to snow!! Old man winter just doesn't want to go away. Our tour of Indiana included a short drive through French Lick - the hometown of Larry Bird - no wonder he left and never came back.

Don't forget to cheer on the Louisville Cards in the Sweet 16 of the

NCAA Men's Basketball Tourney.

L-YEAH! GO CARDS!

Shamrocks and Dirty Socks

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We ran in the Rodes City Run 10K (6.2 miles) on Saturday, which was the 2nd leg of our "Triple Crown of Running"races preparing us for the half-marathon coming up at the end of April. We had some great weather and were happy with our times. Over 5,000 runners competed in the race and we each finished in the top half. The next race is a 10 mile run which takes place on March 29. Keep us in your prayers on that one!!

The pre-race lines at the porta-potties were sooooooo long and Cori was pretty much the last person in line, so this bottom picture looks like our view for most of the race.

Ms. Oakley is almost as big as Murphy now. She is starting to lose her baby teeth, which we find around the house. Her new favorite game is to steal the clothes (especially socks) out of the dirty laundry basket. She is now able to go to the Dog Park, so we look forward to warmer & drier (less muddy) weather.

We are looking forward to a relaxing Easter. Wishing you joy & peace that comes from knowing that Jesus is Risen!

March 9, 2008

Welcome to the very first blog of the Burnetts in the Bluegrass...

We had a very snowy weekend (for Kentucky standards). We got 10" of snow and the whole city shutdown. Since we haven't ever had more than a few inches the whole time we have lived here - we hadn't yet made a purchase of a snow shovel...so we had to borrow one from the neighbors so we could shovel the driveway. We also had to teach the neighborhood kids how to make a snowman. Murphy and Oakley thought the snow was great and enjoyed playing in it and eating it too.

We celebrated Murphy's 2nd Birthday! We invited some "friends" over for cake. It was a dog-gone good time!

HAPPY 2nd (14th in dog years) BIRTHDAY MURPHY!!

We are also training for a half-marathon (13.1 miles) to be run the week before Derby. Speaking of Derby, we are excited for our 3rd Derby and we hope to have a lot of visitors to take part in the festivities. Let us know if you want to be a part of DERBY '08 (May 3rd).

We will continue to keep this page updated, so check back for our next installment...