Senior Picture day

Today Breanne got her Senior pictures. Just the head shots for the year book. We have to go back later in the Fall for the whole senior spread. She want shots with the dogs! I took her to get her makeup done so she would not be so washed out in the photos. She NEVER wears makeup so she did not like it AT ALL. I though she looked beautiful as always. When we do the big spread she says no makeup. I talked her into letting me snap a few shots at home before she ran in to wash her face!

My exciting weekend! (Not)

So I had a fairly pleasent uneventful weekend. It rained, which we really needed, but left the air heavy and muggy. Got up eary Saturday morning and cleaned my closet and bedroom. I took the Kirby apart and cleaned it out really good. (Yes I am weird obsessive somtimes when it comes to cleaning). I had a pedicure scheduled for 10:00am so I was then off to have my tootsie's pampered. Man that was great. I really needed some ME time. While my feetsies were papmered I got to read my latest PEOPLE mag and catch up on all of the latest "news"! I actually got to read the entire mag without interuption! It was wonderful! My mom and I then went "SHOPPING"!

We first visited our new Creative Memories consultant to see what was new and what was on sale. Mom got a bunch of stuff because she is really low on supplies. I only got a Disney Pack, well because it is Disney of course and some Chritsmas stickers. I have soo much stuff at home I am trying not to buy more until I use it up.

Then we headed over to Walmart to get a few things and to look around. Lastly we had lunch at Applebee's. It was a nice afternoon with Mom!

I got home around 5:00 and Ron was waiting to go play BINGO. We had invited our Freind Liz to meet up with us at the BINGO place. We got there a little early got our cards and found a good place to sit. Liz arrived just in time to start the first game. So we talked and played and had a good time. Liz won $200! Nothing for me and Ron but for a $5 buy in it is a fairly inexpensive good time. It seemed that only one of the BINGO callers that evening spoke clear english and some of the accents were hard to decifer. It actullay sent Ron and Liz into a giggle fest! We had to look at eachother several time and say"what was that?" After Bingo we went to Stanford's for drinks and snacks. Since Ron and I are not drinking alcohol (sad) we just had soda/water. Liz however got a yummy Lavender Martini. When I can drink again I am going to get one! We spent an hour or so munching and talking and then called it a night. When we got home I watched the So you think you dance finally that I had recorded. Yay! Joshua!!! Ron fell asleep on the couch - as expected and then I dragged him off to bed.

Sunday we did Laundry, cleaned house a little and watched 2 movies. 21 and Doomesday. Both were pretty good. 21 was a really good story and Doomesday was gross and action packed. So that was it in a nutshell. Then comes Monday and back to work!

Dog Sitting!

We have been dog sitting since Thursday. My freind Ann and her husband went to Dune Fest in Oregon and were not able to take their dog Lakota with them. So I agreed to take him while they were away.

It has been fun he is a big 'Ol' goof ball of a dog. He loves the ball and wants to play all of the time. Ebony and Brutus seem to be enjoying his company too. Lakota will be going home tommorow and even though he was fun to have around I will be happy to have some sloberless peace back in my house. Not to mention less dog poo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously this is a big dog!

Lakota loves to play ball especially with the Soccer Ball!

All that is left of the Soccer Ball!!! When we started on Friday it was a perfectly good Soccer Ball.

Breanne's 17th Birthday!

Can't believe that my BABY is 17!

Since Breanne did not want a real party we just had family over for lunch and cake. I actually restrained myself and did not decorate or anything! Yes it was hard but I did it. Breanne did want a Dinosoar cake and since I could find anyone to make one I added the dino's myself!

Yea Cake!

Look Wii games!

The Family (Luke, with his back to us, Carmen, Papa Mike, kids, Harry, G-ma Sue, Aunt Janie)

Alexa, Ariana and Mike.

Todd, Alexa, Breanne, Mike and Ariana

Presents. Rubiks Cube!

Ok I think she has had enough pics!

Scooter Fun!

Ron has been working on getting my moms scooter fixed. The switch had gone bad and the batteries were not charging. So after several hours of dinkering with the thing he did some rewiring and was able to get the scooter working again. Yipee! Of course this mean TEST DRIVE right. Heck ya!

Boys will be boys. He sure was having fun making sure it "worked right". You know testing all of the things that my mom will need to do in it. Like wheelies, Ya right!

Man Breanne and I were cracking up! I have video of him doing wheelies and almost dumping the thing over but can't get it to load. Will try again later. He still needs to solder the switch contacts in place so that it work consistanly and not cut out on him.

Breanne and Ron posing! I think they got a little Cap'n in them!

Monster wanted to say "Hi!" she was helping me with this post this morning. At least she thought she was helping!

Busy Day!

So I got off to a late start this morning (as usual) and didn't get to Liz's until 11:45 instead of the planned 10:00. Opps! This is the weekend of the Emerald Crest Annual Community yard sale and man was it a very busy day. When we arrived there were tons of people. We quickly set up our junk and got the truck out of the way. Sold a few thing made a few dollars, not bad for stuff that was on it's way to the Goodwill. Mostly it sure was great to spend the day with Liz, Carri and Gerb. It was nice to see all of the old neighbors and meet some of the new folks. The neighborhood should did look pretty good. We left there around 3:00 to head home and get to work on the garage. 1st though we had to stop at Lowes to get the wood for the scrapping tables. Of course my mom and I wanted to look around but Rons was the shopping natzi and was really getting angry that we did not clear the additional shopping agenda by him first. Typical male I came in for 1 thing get that thing shopping trip over! Sheez! I did manage to sneak in a rug and a couple of recycle bins before he totally blew his cool though!

Once we got home we got straight to work on the garage. We are cleaning out the single car side and turning it into a game/rec room so the kids (big kids too) can go out there and play to the hearts content. We made some really good progress got most of the crap cleared out, the floor cleaned and the furniture in. Tommorow we will get the Big TV and Video games moved out there as well as get the dart board up. We can actually get to the entire weight bench now instead of only 1/2 of it and the air hockey table is not filled with junk either. Will also finish the workbench side so maybe by the winter I can get my car back into the garage. That would be nice. It does look tons better. Should have seen it before the whole garage was covered in white powder looked like a flour bomb exploded in there. Ron has been refinishing a dresser and white sanding residue was EVERYWHERE. Glad to have that cleaned up. You can actually see the floor again.

Looks pretty good! Will be even better when we get it all done.

Still have to leave room for the 2 motorcycles and the tractor. Darn! Still have a bunch of stuff sitting in the driveway to get moved back in not to mention a truck load bound for the dump! Man how do we manage to accumulate all of the stuff!

Almost there! You can actually see the floor. That is a good sign.

Newbie!

Ok so this is my first ever blog. Weird writing stuff down that others may or may not ever read. So what's new today. Happy that the week is over looking forward to cleaning out the garage this weekend. (Crazi I know!) Saturday I am goiong to Liz's to help with the yard sale and then home to get the garage done. Still recovering from my surgery so I can't lift anything but I can give great direction! I'm gonna boss everyone around anyways so I might as well have a good excuse for not doing and just ordering! Most exciting thing that happend this week is I got in touch with my friend Tammy. I have been missing her for some time now and found her on line. It has been wonderful to get caught up and see how well her and her family are doing.

On a sad note: We had to put Hallie down this week. She was 12 years old and I have hade her since she was a puppy! She has pins in her hips from being run over as a puppy and as she got older she develop really bad arthritis in her hips and knees. She was doing ok on anti-inflamitory drugs but they just stopped helping her and she was always in pain. Last week she lost her bladder control and had an accident every time she got up. She was no longer enjoying her life so we felt it was best to put her at peace. We will miss her she was a wonderful freind and companion.
So that is my week in a nutshell. Not sure how to end this thing - weird. So TTFN!