Wonderful Weekend!

It was just wonderful! The weather was wonderful, the company was wonderful, getting work done & relaxing too was wonderful!

On Friday we took our 3rd child Daniel bowling for his birthday present. It was fun, he loves to bowl and he has this unusual curve ball that is scarily accurate. I got a strike and a spare in the second game, exciting for me, I'm not a big bowler. Even Bryan got a strike! He was so cute bowling. He carried his 6 lb ball up to the ramp everytime. Then after he would push the ball down the ramp he would throw up his arms & yell woohoo & then do a somersault, lol.

On Saturday I worked on more mowing & Travis worked on weed eating & such. Then we had the family birthday party for Daniel. My mom, Trav's parents, & my brother & family were there. We sat around & chatted & then went outside & enjoyed the nice day.

On Sunday we took things easier & moved at a slower pace. Travis & I went to our local small town & ate lunch. Then we walked around and checked out the cars at the car show. Picked up some ice cream & ate it on the way to pick up our oldest from a friend's house. Got home & Travis got the jeep running again & I mowed in between bouts of rain.

Other than a few spats with the kids it was a good, productive, family weekend. I look forward to many more like that!

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Seriously we've had enough! Our wells are full and our ground is saturated! We had plans to put up bub's new swingset next weekend and I'm not sure we're going to be able to. We wanted to do it on Memorial Weekend so my husband and whatever help we get would have 3 days to get it done or as close as possible. It's a big job and will take a long time. The way the weather has been though we haven't been able to even mow where we want to put it once this year. It needs to be mowed and leveled. We were hoping to do that before the weekend was here. We may get to mow it this Saturday if everything works out and from there it's wait and see and hope.

Beautiful Day

So beautiful that I had trouble deciding what to do with myself today. Should I clean up this mess in the house that's accumulated all week or go outside to do some overdue yard work? Or maybe I thought, I should just chuck all my responsibilities and just hang out and enjoy the comfortable, beautiful day? I opted for a combination of both in house cleaning & outside yard work. Now I'm cooking dinner, which I'm looking forward to for once, because we are having general tso's chicken and fried rice with egg rolls! This is a rare treat to make at home and even more rare to eat out in a restaurant. Hubby is taking a nap. Poor guy is tired and this weather is perfect napping weather. If I was tired I'd join him, but I'm not. In fact I'm sitting here with my feet jittering about b/c I have too much energy for sitting. Having this much energy is great for getting things done, but not for getting things done on the computer. At least half my life is on the computer so you can see how this gets in the way. It is good for my weight loss too. The clouds are turning a blue-gray shade implying that a storm is brewing. It's very pretty to look at, the tall grass is waving gently, you can hear the breeze, and smell the faint smell of water in the air. Unfortunately it also means my dog Ashley is outside pacing frantically. She's terrified of storms and tries to outrun them which means I have to chain her up before she does. So I'd better go catch her!