July 4

Happy 4th of July! We had a great time. We had a big dinner. Made 2 flag cakes. Yes Alan, I will always make these as long as you keep coming to our 4th parties *smile* The big girls got to see their friends. One is in college and the other 2 are going in a  few weeks. The neighbor Jack (he's 16) came down with a few of his friends.
He's been helping light the fireworks off with Mike. He did this last year and wanted to help again this year. So neat to see all the kids getting so big. We've been here 12 years, they were all so tiny when we moved in.
Family, friends, food, and a lot of fireworks = good times!!!!
P.S. Our  little boys have never liked fireworks, at all. Guess what? We have 2 little boys who love fireworks. Just a little help from some earplugs and they had soooo much fun. It was so nice to see them enjoy the night.

July 3

 This is our garage that I'm hoping will be our/my? sewing room. It's empty now and they are straightening the walls. They are fixing the drainage between the playroom and the garage so we can connect them together.

Kylene wanted her hair cut so she took off by herself this afternoon. This is a photo she sent me.
Too cute!

July 2

So,here it is July 2nd......I haven't blogged in almost a month? What? Wait, we haven't even started our summer yet.
So let's take a moment to ponder. Hmmm...What did we do all month?
All the kids had their yearly dental check-up. That alone, scheduled and in/out and the dentist office is an hours drive from here. But happy to report only 2 cavities out of the whole bunch. Excellent!
So let's move on..a couple routine doctor visits and labs for a couple of the kids.....umm...new tires on the bus (YES, this is exciting).  Oooh, we got our yearly delivery of 1/2 a steer and whole hog.Now that's quite the highlight huh? Moving along....Mike's getting his arms *sleeved*. Yep, full arm tattoo's. Pics to come later. I'm to lazy to put pictures in this post. It's car stuff. I'm not a tattoo kinda girl myself, but he loves them. And I love him and he loves tattoo's. So, that I guess brings us to today.
Me: Mike the frig sounds kinda funky
Mike: Not good
Me: I think I'm gonna unload some stuff to the shop frig
Mike: Good idea, I'm gonna make some calls
Yeah, this is where I tell ya we went to Cosco last night. The frig is FULL. So we had to take a couple of boxes up to Brian's shop frig that wouldn't fit in our extra frig.
So the repair guy came. The good news was he could fix it, on Wednesday.( It's a commercial frig, we weren't sure.) The bad news, it was the compressor.  A $1500.00 compressor.
Yep, that says it all.

June 7

Today we have  our second high school graduate.

Congratulation's Kylene!

June 6

Ms.Rossi and Mr.Rose came from school to celebrate the end of the school year and they brought a surprise cake for a little graduation party for Kylene. How nice was that! The kids had such fun playing all morning and then we got to have a great "chocolate" cake :) !

May 8

I love, love love this rose. It was originally planted in the front yard. When we re-landscaped the front and back yard a few years ago, I made sure we paid close attention to this rose making the move to the back yard.The story is when the original part of the house was built in 1937 the owner/builder gave his wife this rose for the yard.We are only the third owners, so I'm not sure the story is true but if it is.....it's a sweet story and the rose will bloom on.

May 6

We have a really big picnic table in the backyard. It's 14 ft. long. The neighbor guy made it and they didn't end up using it. They gave it to us back in 2008. It was looking kind of faded. Mike bought some stain and boy o' boy does it look great. We are good to go for years now. Doesn't it look better?