Well I must say I was glad to see Monday come this week. We have so much going on the next few weeks we used this weekend to do home repair projects. Steve and I have been trying to hold off on turning on the AC this year, not for any particular reason just to see how well we can do without it. TO help with this we drug the old screens for the windows out of the attic and washed them off. It had been many a moons since these had been used. We had siding put on the house 5 years ago and the windows were not sized corectly to fit with the trim and siding. SO steve began the project by trimming the screens down using his new circular saw, talk about excited, a man with a new tool! Once that was done I scraped and painted all of the screens before we could hang them on the house. Lucky for us it was 87 degrees on Sunday so the paint dried very quickly. Once the screens were dry steve attached new hooks and hung all of the screens on the windows.
In between all of this we bought a new wooden 5 foot swing for the back yard. We had a friend leave a metal swing frame at our house last year but we have never done anything with it. Well Sunday Steve put the swing together while I spray painted the metal frame and once the swing was together I stained the swing a beautiful Pecan gloss. For anyone who has never stained let me warn you of a valuable lesson I learned! That stain is STICKY and is horribly hard to get off of your hands so wear gloves or be much more careful than I was!
Three years ago I purchased an umbrella for the yard but since we never had a patio we never took it out of the box. Well Sunday Steve decided to break it out and put it togther. I was extrmemly impressed and happy with how nice the umbrella was. It had been a 100 plus dollar umbrella that I got on clearence for 25 dollars at Bed Bath and Beyond, after seeing this thing I think I got the deal of the century! Steve also built a ramp for our storage building he and my dad put up in the fall. He plans on building flower beds around it this month so that no little critters can live under it.
Needless to say after all of this activity we were hot, tired and sunburnt! We did both sleep like babies that night and are very happy with all of the work we got done. I am happy to report it was 87 here again yesterday and we had all the windows open and I loved it! Today is much cooler at 80 degrees and we have a very nice cool breeze blowing through.
We are going floating this weekend so I will start getting ready for that this evening. We love going to the river with my family and our friends, its peaceful and relaxing. Of course with steve it is always entertaining! I am sure I will have lots of stories to post and pictures to share when we get back!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Getting ready for summer
Wow, it has been a long time since I posted a new blog! I guess I have not really had anything exciting to write about and finals kept me usy for a few weeks, but I am done for a few weeks until summer classes start. Steve and I are FINALLY over this crud we had for over a month. I never had it as bad as Steve but still had it enough to kick my butt! Now that we are feeling better we have been hitting the gym everynight for about an hour and 15 minutes. We joined a new gym in January but it was being built and after several weather delays finally opened two weeks ago, its a very nice gym, not crowded, staff is super friendly adn best of all its only 10 dollars a month, if you havent checked out Fitness 19 you should.
On the last blog I was wishing Steve a happy birthday, though we didn't do anything super special for his birthday the daycare kids and I made him an Icecream cake and I made his favorite Steak for dinner that evening. The kids had a blast helping me but it was deffinatly a learning experiance!
It was not a perfect cake by any means but it sure was tasty!! I took vanilla icecream and layered the bottom, then mixed smashed oreos with chocolate syrup and layered on top of the icecream, next lay down a layer of chocolate fudge and top with another layer of vanilla icecream. Top of with your favorite frosting and let freeze for 4 hours. And then... ENJOY!!
But not before you eat your dinner!!!
We elebrated Mothers Day with my Parents, Sister, niece and nephew by eating brunch at Cracker Barrell. My Grandpa always loved to take my mom there for Mothers Day so we couldn't think of a better place to go. Some of you may not know but for my parents 27th wedding anniversary they decided to purchase each other a little gift. Though my mom gets all the use out of it my dad is having the time of his life riding everynight with my mom. He had purchased a brand new Road King in 2009 and when he retired in September he finally had the time to ride it. SO I would like to introduce the newest member of our family!!
Yep folks thats right, my mother now has her very own brand new Harley Trike to ride with my father! So back to Mothers Day, since my Mom has this new bike she loves so much it was only logical for us to get her accesories for her bike for Mothers day! Here are some pictures of her opening the Mud Flaps all of her kids got her. We also got her a trunk organizer but it wont be here until the end of May, but the Bike Fairy wrote her a letter explaining his bike broke down and he couldnt get it here on time. But as a fellow Harley rider he was sure she understood!
Steve and I have also been watching American Idol, we have done this for several years now and never miss an episode. This year was a little different though! Steve and I had our top three picked from the very begining, we though it would be Casey, Chrystal and Shiaban. At the very begining we could not stand Lee, he had not been profiled as much and we just didn't get his voice. However as time has gone by SHioban began to get on our nerves and Lee quickly grew on us. Every other year we have watched we knew who we liked and didn't like and we never waivered from that. This year we were wrong and after lasts nights performace we both agree Lee is the man to beat. Though we both still love Casey and Chrystal we have to admit that its Caseys time to go, its going to be a show down between Lee and Chrystal! In case you don't watch you should go to Youtube and look for Lee DeWyze Simple Man and Hallelujah. Both were beautiful!
Steve and I are taking it easy this weekend other than hitting the gym and I am going to church with my momma on Sunday. We will be going to the river for the first time on Memorial weekend and the following weekend we will be visiting Steve's family in Topeka. It has been way to long sence we made it up there and we are both very excited about going. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, it is supposed to be Warm and SUnny in Springfield!
On the last blog I was wishing Steve a happy birthday, though we didn't do anything super special for his birthday the daycare kids and I made him an Icecream cake and I made his favorite Steak for dinner that evening. The kids had a blast helping me but it was deffinatly a learning experiance!
It was not a perfect cake by any means but it sure was tasty!! I took vanilla icecream and layered the bottom, then mixed smashed oreos with chocolate syrup and layered on top of the icecream, next lay down a layer of chocolate fudge and top with another layer of vanilla icecream. Top of with your favorite frosting and let freeze for 4 hours. And then... ENJOY!!
But not before you eat your dinner!!!
We elebrated Mothers Day with my Parents, Sister, niece and nephew by eating brunch at Cracker Barrell. My Grandpa always loved to take my mom there for Mothers Day so we couldn't think of a better place to go. Some of you may not know but for my parents 27th wedding anniversary they decided to purchase each other a little gift. Though my mom gets all the use out of it my dad is having the time of his life riding everynight with my mom. He had purchased a brand new Road King in 2009 and when he retired in September he finally had the time to ride it. SO I would like to introduce the newest member of our family!!
Yep folks thats right, my mother now has her very own brand new Harley Trike to ride with my father! So back to Mothers Day, since my Mom has this new bike she loves so much it was only logical for us to get her accesories for her bike for Mothers day! Here are some pictures of her opening the Mud Flaps all of her kids got her. We also got her a trunk organizer but it wont be here until the end of May, but the Bike Fairy wrote her a letter explaining his bike broke down and he couldnt get it here on time. But as a fellow Harley rider he was sure she understood!
Steve and I have also been watching American Idol, we have done this for several years now and never miss an episode. This year was a little different though! Steve and I had our top three picked from the very begining, we though it would be Casey, Chrystal and Shiaban. At the very begining we could not stand Lee, he had not been profiled as much and we just didn't get his voice. However as time has gone by SHioban began to get on our nerves and Lee quickly grew on us. Every other year we have watched we knew who we liked and didn't like and we never waivered from that. This year we were wrong and after lasts nights performace we both agree Lee is the man to beat. Though we both still love Casey and Chrystal we have to admit that its Caseys time to go, its going to be a show down between Lee and Chrystal! In case you don't watch you should go to Youtube and look for Lee DeWyze Simple Man and Hallelujah. Both were beautiful!
Steve and I are taking it easy this weekend other than hitting the gym and I am going to church with my momma on Sunday. We will be going to the river for the first time on Memorial weekend and the following weekend we will be visiting Steve's family in Topeka. It has been way to long sence we made it up there and we are both very excited about going. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, it is supposed to be Warm and SUnny in Springfield!
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