MONDAY AND BACK AT IT!

Tony and I both slept HORRIBLE last night. When we got back from Melissa's, we ate a rice krispie treat and I think the sugar did a number on us. You'd think we'd learn!! I got up and came down to the couch and read for a while. When I felt like I could close my eyes, I did but still didn't sleep. Soon, Tony joined me and we both tried to crash on the couch. I finally went up to bed at 3:30 and Tony remained on the couch. We got up at 7am and went to the gym to walk. Pat met us and we caught up on what happened to each of us over the weekend. We split at 9:30 and came home to eat breakfast.

After we ate, Tony went out to fix the gate. He got all the boards taken off and started to rebuild.

It's gonna look good and match the rest of the fence. I waited for a couple of hours to mow the lawn because it was wet. I stripped our bed and washed the sheets. Then I did 4 loads of laundry, vacuumed                            the house, then I came out to mow.

It was warmer out but comfortable. Good to get that done. 

The flowers by the shed are budded out and one has bloomed. 

The Gerber Daisy's are doing great. The big rain storm didn't hurt them at all.  Once I finished the lawn, I came in to finish my house cleaning. I folded clothes and put them away. Then I started dinner.

I went out to see how Tony was coming along with the gate. It's looking good. While I was outside, Patrick came home and he had Violet with him. He brought her over to see us.

She is five months old now and she has a ton of hair.

He took her binky out of her mouth and her expression didn't change  at all. It was so funny! She's so cute!

I was putting the clean sheets back on the bed and Tony came in to tell me he was done. I went out and took a picture.

It looks great! Nice to have it all match. I made rigatoni for lunch and Tony came in and we ate. I made extra and when we finished, I boxed up some and took it over to Ava and Lorraine Taylor. Ava had back surgery last week and I hadn't been able to go see her. She said she was glad I didn't come sooner because she didn't feel super when she 1st got home. I was glad because I was so busy, there was no way I could get over to see her sooner.  Came home, showered and now we are relaxing in front of the TV. lol

It was a good productive day.

RELAXING SUNDAY AND TONY'S BIRTHDAY

Sunday was Tony's 74th birthday. We went to church and then after, we took Lynn home to change into pants (it was still rather cool) and then home to eat. We were so tired from our busy Friday and Saturday, that and didn't plan a nice meal for his birthday. I warmed up leftover chicken noodle soup for Lynn and I and I warmed up the spare ribs from Texas Road House for Tony. He was happy!! Kevin Poulsen (our financial advisor and friend) came over with a BIG PLATE of cookies and peanut butter Rice Krispie treats. It was so sweet of he and Jan. She did all the cooking. lol  After a nice visit with Kevin, he left,  and I cleaned up the kitchen. We then watched  COME FOLLOW UP. Around 6 we decided to go see Melissa and Ellie and Evy. 

We haven't seen this little cutie for a couple of months. She is going to be a year old in August. She's still not crawling. She rolls all over the place and gets there fast. Ellie put cushions down and tried to get her crawl to a bag of yogurt bites, that she loves. She rolled over every pillow and it was so funny! Her mom, tried it a 2nd time and she rolled again, even faster! She was so entertaining!

I asked Melissa if Evy was able to fit in the watermelon dress she had bought her. She said yes, she's been wearing it for a while now. So Ellie said she would put her in it so I could get a picture for my Watermelon wall. It was so cute and she looks adorable in it.

It was so fun getting pictures of her and watching her perform for her great grandparents (US)  and her great great Gramma, Lynn!

And this is the picture Ellie got for me for my wall!

I LOVE IT AND I LOVE HER!

We finished off the night watching her in her jumper. She looks pretty serious but she was jumping and having a great time. 

It was a fun evening.

GOD IS GOOD!~

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!