Old news ....

I have been going through and editing tons of

pictures from the summer.

A lot that I never blogged and I def need to include this in summer of 2011

because this blog is my family journal

so our summer fun is part of our life that I don't want to forget

or for my kids to forget!

so here goes.......

As most know, we had family come in from Texas and Georgia for our

daughters wedding. And we just had so much fun spending time together and most of our time was spent just hanging out on the deck
as we were having such great weather.

these pics were taken about 5 days before the wedding.

Unfortunatly, the bride and groom still had so much to do

that they weren't around for some of the fun!

Below is my beautiful sister in law from Texas, Shay!

man oh man I sure do miss our family!!

and here's Gabe, making funny faces for us!

and the kids had fun playing in the water ....

my beautiful Chrissy girl ...

 

flowers that we were taking down to the wedding.....

we cooked on the grill most nights........just too many people to try and get

in to a restaurant. And we lounged around a lot....we just really

enjoyed being together.

Shay ran a lot of wedding errands with me so it was nice to have someone along. Plus it meant I got Shay all to myself! haha....
Shay and her husband Bobby, our niece Terri and her husband Jeremy, their 2 girls Trinity and Allie and her father in law Tim all stayed at our house. So there was always someone around to have coffee with, or drink a glass of wine on the deck! I just love having a house full of family!

My other sister in law Dee and her partner Jane stayed with our dear family

friend Libby as we didn't have any more bedrooms.
But they came over every morning and stayed until late in the evening.

One day after running errands, Shay, Dee, Jane, Libby and I

went to the movies to see Bridesmaids....how appropriate!

Tonya, one of the bridesmaids and sister of the groom and her boyfriend

Nick came by on Wed before the wedding with their pick up truck.

Lucky for us that they offered to haul down all of the wedding

stuff to the beach. Because we had 14 large crates to get down to the beach.

So fortunate and blessed to have our family and so lucky

that so many of them made the trip for the wedding.

I just miss them so much

later.....

Beef Stew ...

we had our first cool weekend which meant it

was time for stew!!

I love using McCormicks stew spices

Coat the stew beef in bisquick and brown the meat

cut large chunks of potatoes, celery and carrots

throw everything in the crock pot along with the spices and water

cook on low all day and serve over rice!!

yum yum

later....

New roof ...

Last Friday I had planned on working from home as

the guy was coming over to measure and take pictures of the

kitchen to give to the designer

to come up with our plan....plan A and plan B

Then on Thursday Johnny tells me that the roofers are coming to

start the new roof and put in new sky lights in our bathrooms

oh the noise....between all of the hammering and the dogs barking.....yikes, it was a lot of noise!

the dogs barked so dang much but around noon, it wore them out

and they went to sleep!

and it was quiet...no hammering on the roof

so I look out the window and look a there

lunch time!!

and they brought their own microwave!!!!

they had put all of our patio and deck furniture out on the lawn

so they set up their microwave and ran it to the

generator!

They were unable to finish on Friday so they were coming back

on Saturday.

I had plans to go shopping with my friend Cheryl but we weren't

going too early so I was in no hurry to get up.

I just laid in bed watching some DVR'd shows

then I remembered the roofers.......crap!

I needed to take a shower and the skylights are over the showers

so I get up and make sure the roofers haven't shown up yet

Jump in the shower......and kept looking up at the skylight to make

sure I didn't have anyone peeking in on me!! haha

They finished up on Saturday, cleaned up all of their mess and done!

the new roof looks great!!

later....

Kitchen remodel ...

We have tossed around the idea of re-modeling our kitchen

for quite some time

and I think it was the dollar amount involved that has kept us from doing it.

well, it WAS the dollar amount.......haha

But now we are re-visiting the kitchen remodel plan

not sure yet if we can pull this off or not......but we are looking into it

we have a plan A and a plan B

money will determine which plan if any that we go with

So this could end up a whole new series for my blog!

here are some of the ones that I am drawing inspiration
from.....



Plan A or Plan B??

or can we even pull this off??

stay tuned

later.......