SUCH A BUZY THREE DAYS!! AND THE STORM OF THE CENTURY!

Thursday night, Klynn picked me up, then Luva and then Lynn and we drove out to Jenni's new house for Bookclub. She gave us a tour of the place. It's beautiful!! Effie Dickerson and her mother-in-law, Elizabeth, came and we got started.

There were only seven of us but it was a good discussion!

Jenni, Luva and Effie. After we visited and discussed the book, I helped Jenni in the kitchen. She made brownies and ice-cream. Then we decided on a new book for next month and off we went for home.

Friday was our 22nd anniversary! We went to the gym and then came home and cleaned up and Tony took me to

THAILAND EXPRESS, for dinner.

I got sweet & sour chicken and it was YUMMY!

We then went home and got ready to go to the temple. We were subbing for the Moore's and we had to be there at 3:30. We got to the temple and worked until 7:30 in the evening and they let us go because they knew we worked the early shift on Saturday.

The temple, when we got there at 3:30 in the afternoon.
 

The temple when we left at 7:30 in the evening.

The sky heading towards Nampa on the freeway. We could see a tremendous storm coming our way!

It was INCREDIBLE!!

We were talking to Tammy on the phone on our way home. She and the kids had been up at Melissa's cleaning up dog poo and they were on their way home and the storm hit. They said the water was coming so hard that they could hardly see. We pulled into our garage and just as we did, it hit us!!

Caldwell, Meridian and Boise got hit with hail and rain.

So many videos from friends and others' were posted on Facebook and we saw for ourselves when we came back to the temple Saturday morning. Still white hail in piles on the streets.

Flooding in some areas. It was an amazing storm.

The temple when we arrived at 5:10 this morning.

The temple when we left at 11am this morning, after our shift. I was so tired. We went to TEXAS ROADHOUSE on our way home and ate lunch. Tony got a free half rack of ribs for his birthday (which he took home)  and we both had salmon. It was good. We came home and I fell asleep in the chair for a while. We went back to the temple this evening to do baptisms with Drue, Yeti and Liz.

Chris and Corbin came as well. 

We got 73 baptisms and 73 confirmations done. It was a great day!

Came home, showered and now I am ready to hit the sack. I am so tired! It was a very busy 3 days and neither one of slept worth beans  last night. I think we were too wound up and just couldn't settle down. I'm sure we will tonight. lol

GOD IS GOOD!

KIND OF A RESTFUL DAY!!

Pat had a eye appointment today at 9:10 so we decided to go to the gym later.....when she finished. Tony and I left for Costco at 8:45 to pick up a prescription that was ready for me. Then we washed the car and headed to my eye doctor to have my new glasses adjusted. They were putting big indents on my nose. She put new silicone pads on and it seems to have helped. Then we headed for the gym. Tony wanted to get started because he was lifting weights as well. I waited in the car for Pat but it was just too hot today, so I went in and got on an elliptical bike till she got there. We only walked 3 miles today but I rode for two so there's that. lol

We went home, changed and then went to pick up Lynn and head to VERIZON. We were thinking of getting new phones.  We had to wait about 15 minutes to get waited on and there was a woman at our table that got really nasty with the young woman who was helping her. Finally, the young employee said she would get the manager and he could help her. Before the manager came, she turned to us and went off about all the fraud she was dealing with and how stupid kids were and how they didn't know anything, and then she said she had a bunch of death threats and the sheriff wasn't doing anything about it. She was so nasty, I totally understood the threats, if in fact it was real.  We were saved from listening to her any longer, when the manager came and then she went off on him. He was good!! He told her he didn't appreciate her disrespecting his team and would she please be kind. She tamed down a bit but she was a total beotch!! The man that came to help us went over things and we decided to keep our phones until a better deal comes along. He said around the holidays is the best time to look to upgrade. We left and the nasty woman was still there giving the manager a bad time. It made me so glad to be retired and not working with that type of people.

It was around 4 in the afternoon so Lynn said she'd treat us to lunch at ARBY'S right next to the VERIIZON store. Tony said he would rather go to Chick Fil A. lol Afterall, it's been 2 weeks since he's been there. lol They changed their packaging and it's really cute.

The flower vases have even been painted. SO CUTE!

When we got home, I grabbed my tub of scrap paper and my dies and started cutting various sizes of circles.

It's a good way to get rid of scraps and believe me, I have a ton! I was cutting out patterned paper and then decided to get my solid scraps and cut some different dies.

I got quite a few cut while we were watching

 AMERICA'S GOT TALENT,

AND RELAXING!

Tony worked on a new puzzle he got for Father's Day from Colby and Cindy. It was funny. When Pat and I got home from Silver Sister's on Tuesday, this package was on our porch. I opened it and the puzzle was inside but there was nothing to tell us where or who it came from. I thought Tony had ordered it. When I showed him, he said he had not. I called Diane and asked if she'd sent it and she said she hadn't. We had no idea where it came from until Colby called and asked if he'd received his Father's Day gift, and apologised because it was late. NOT A PROBLEM! It was just so sweet of them. 

Other than listening to the nasty woman at the Verizon store, it's been a very nice day and it was nice to stay inside out of the heat.

GOD IS GOOD!

GREAT DAY TO BE AN AMERICAN

This is the red fence that we replaced a year ago. Then when we went to get fence for the rest of the fence this year, we couldn't get the red.  So we bought the gold.

The red part was bugging Tony a lot.

So today after the gym, Tony went out to replace it with the gold. He tore them all off yesterday. Before leaving for SILVER SISTERS, I took a picture of my handy man!!

Pat showed up at 10:15. We went to pick up Lynn and off we went.

It was decorated beautifully!!

All the ladies wore patriotic shirts. My friend Pat, seated by Shelly.

Luva, me and Pat!

Carol Ross and her daughter Debbie.  Carol had shoulder surgery and Debbie has been here helping her. She lives in North Carolina. The women behind them all told stories of women in American history. It was so interesting. Between speakers, we all sang Patriotic songs.

Xochitl, Luva and Mom.

After the speakers and singing, we ate the good ole American meal. Hot dogs, potato salad, chips, watermelon and cake. It was good and fun. It took me a long time to convince Pat to come to theses with me, but I kept asking and she finally did. She has enjoyed them so much that now she looks forward to them every month. Today, they said we would take the summer off and won't have another one till September. Pat was so dissapointed.  lol

We dropped Lynn off at home after the event and then came home. Tony took a picture of us.

We liked our patriotic shirts. Pat tried to get us matching ones but she couldn't find them. I got mine on line and I like it.

Tony finished the fence while we were gone and it looks great.

When Pat went home, I got on CHAT GBT and made this one.

HOW FUN IS THAT!! SO GRATEFUL TO BE AN AMERICAN.

GOD IS GOOD! 

LUNCH WITH SCOTT AND THANKS TO HEATHER

Tony and I went to the gym and had a good walk, and always fun to see our friends.  We came home and Tony took down the red boards on the fence to make it match with the new ones.  I got ready to go to lunch with Scott. He and Heather went together to give me a nice lunch for MOTHER'S DAY. However, with our schedules, it has been hard to make time to go. FINALLY, we nailed down a day.

We went to JERSEY MIKES in downtown Nampa. It was a really good sandwich and my thanks to Scott & Heather for such a kind gesture. Scott and I had such a good visit, but it got cold inside the restaurant, so we drove back to my place and finished. 

Scott did a selfie of us and then he wanted to take off his glasses.

I just got my new glasses yesterday and I like them because they help cover up the bags under my eyes. lol So I kept mine on. 

CLEAN UP

Friday, we cleaned up the rest of the back yard after putting up the fence on Thursday. Tony had to put some angle brackets on our shed. It was coming apart on the sides.

Tony can be pretty clever when it comes to fixing things.

We got the shed back in place against the fence and then I got it all swept out.  We starting refilling it.

Tony loves his new little wagon. It comes in handy for transferring items that he'd moved to the other sheds when we needed to move the shed against the fence.

Then the two of us got the picnic tables put back in place against the fence. We have 4 lounge chairs that we never use so we offered them to Curtis and Deedra. They will pick them up when they  come over for the 4th of July.

Then Tony cut a bunch of branches off the tree. It was getting too heavy in spots and I kept hitting my head when I mowed. 

He bundled them up and we'll put them out with the trash on Thursday. It looks so much better.

I came in and got the cinnamon rolls thawing and raising. Then we were going to the gym but Pat called and said she was running a bit late so we told her we still had some things to do around the house.

So we installed the light we'd bought for our new picture. It looks so nice.  Pat finally called and said she was ready to go to the gym. So we did and walked our 4 miles. When we finished, we came home. Got ready to go to Lynn's because Jess & Diane had come to town. The cinnamon rolls had raised so I added the cream, nuts butter and cinnamon and cooked them. Took them over to Lynn's and we ate pizza, cinnamon rolls and played games. They were delicious!!

We left around 6:30 to come home and get showered and ready to go to bed. The temple is open after the two week closure for cleaning. 

It was a good day!

GOT OUR FENCE DONE!

My husband is pretty funny! Yesterday he asked me if I would JUST help him in the morning with the string line for the fence. I said I would so after we got up at 7 this morning, we ate a quick bite and were outside before 8am. The string line was a cinch and took very little time. I'm not stupid. lol He really wanted me out there to help put up the fence. When I told him he was stringing me along with that line, he burst out laughing. 

I took a shot of the African daisy that Belle , Sophia and Traci gave me for Mother's Day. It's growing really good and I love it.

This is what we started with today.

We had all the fence boards stored in the new shed we got this spring. So, we started by loading a bunch onto our big wagon, pulling them to the patio and then Tony would cut about 6 of them at a time. I would bring the to him and he would screw them in. He's very precise and used his level on each one.

When we got close to being done with one load,  I would pull the wagon back to the shed and we'd load it up again. 

I would load 6 of them onto the saw. Some were still kinda wet and were heavy so I took about 3 at a time and then Tony would cut! 

He said he was really glad I helped him because it made the job go so much faster. Pat was willing to wait till we were done before going to the gym. It was so much cooler in the morning as well.

Making progress and we could see a light at the end of the tunnel. 

When we got to the end of the project, I just carried out what boards we needed. No sense in pushing that big ole wagon.

Finally, the board we were looking for!!

Tony had to do a little fancy work around the bolts on the gate but he worked his magic and it fit together really well. He also cut a fence board in half to finish off the end. We are going to replace the gate boards too, but not today!  We finished up, cleaned up the tools etc and then headed to the gym. We walked our 4 miles and then went to COSTCO to fill the car up with gas and get a couple of things inside.

Even our COSTCO is remodeling. They are adding a big section onto the side and also a section in the back. Not sure what it will be used for but it'll be interesting when it's all done.  We came home, ate, showered and now we are resting the remainder of the day.

GOD IS GOOD!~