Hole-in-one, Baseball, Soccer, Puppy

Congrats to my dear husband on his FIRST HOLE-IN-ONE!!

He didn't believe but he got one, playing last Friday with his teacher friends.


So cool! He just left this certificate on the microwave for me to find, like no big deal.



CP baseball made it down to semi-state in Lafayette. We all went down on Monday. It was perfect weather, so nice! Ethan & I both got some sun.

T even had to go out and check on a hurt kid that was hit in the foot with a pitch. Walking back with the coach...

Unfortunately, they lost 7-4. Such a bummer.

Ethan's highlight of the day...

A SNOWCONE! It turned his lips & tongue blue, of course.

Funny quote from Ethan later that day...

Uncle Dan was asking about the baseball game & the score

U. Dan: "Was it close?" (meaning the final score)

Ethan: "No, it was far. I got to bring the dvd player."

T drove around Purdue for me, too. We went by my house and then by my dorms, Windsor Halls. So surprised to see all this was going on... I thought it had caught on fire, but they were just major rehabing it all. I googled it and found out they are making suites and even putting in air conditioning! Finally!

This past Sat. was Ethan's last soccer game. Last time doing the clapping-good game part, Ethan's fav part.

We did treats for the last game with another girl on his team. We just brought capri-suns & ritz bits peanut butter. Their coach gave them all little medallions plus gift certificates for DQ, which E can't wait to use!

And introducing our new little 'cousin puppy'....

LIGHTNING
He is a black lab and 8 weeks old now.

Hiding under the deck stairs...so cute!!

We got him some cute little 'T' treats and a Chuckit ball thrower, thing with a handle that whiffs a tennis ball & then you can pick it up with it.

I should have taken a pic of the kids playing with chuckin that ball with this thing. They loved playing with it! The puppy, well, not really ready for it yet. He loves M's soccer ball though! So funny!

Tonight is 'Hometown Fun' at the Cornroast. I love it so. I hope it doesn't rain!

Hope to have a fun weekend! Hopefully we'll get to go swimming in our pool.

Summer projects...so far

T & I have quite a list of summer projects.

First one accomplished was staining the deck. T redid it last year with his uncle, but it was never stained or protected at all. We chose Canyon Brown and it is dark brown. T really likes it, I think it is too dark but matches our house and patio furniture really nice. I love that lattice divider thing looks sooo much better. It took the longest to paint.

I'm loving our new patio set. We got it from Home Depot. Not sure if I want to add an umbrella. Our deck gets shade in the afternoon. I need to take a pic of it on the new deck.

Another mini project T did one day was replacement the beat up landscaping timbers with pavers and edge the border with the bricks like we have around the pool.


We are keeping it with just 2 rows. I have removed that extra random paver.

So far this weekend I have done a lot of weeding. It was really needed & I'm just about done.

T project this weekend was opening the pool. Since baseball was postponed due to rain on Sat. he got a great start on it. He did more cleaning & filling up the pool on Sunday.

We went to Lowes again today. Trent wanted stain for the pool deck. The pool deck really needs it. I don't want that dark brown stain for it though. We got the higher quality Cabot's in cedar.

We also got 3 perenials for our sunny areas. T decided to buy an electric hedge trimmer. It was only $24 and he used it on 5 of our bushes in the backyard today. The burning bushes just get soo big. He really needs to mow the yard, too. It down poured today, so he thought it was too wet again.

On our way home from Lowes we went by our old house on Dogwood and noticed our old neighbors outside so we stopped by to say hi. I was amazed they remembered Ethan's name. He was 1.5 when we moved, so he doesn't remember that house. They have the same name as my maiden name & they always have a funny story of someone asking if they are my parents. I guess they got a random call from a former student of my dads.

Last week was E's last day at Mrs. F. He loves going to her house. He usually goes 3 days a week Mon, Tues, Thurs. She is losing 5 kids that will be going off to kindergarten in the fall. She had a little party for them on Thurs. They got to swim & slip/slide which Ethan loved. He got a great sunburn, though. Here he is with 2 other 5 yr old buddies.

Mrs. F cuts back her hours to just Tues & Thurs in the summer. E will probably still go there a couple of times over the summer.

Ethan with Joshie-who I had never met before, he is always picked up by the time I pick E up.

Hannah and Ethan, she is 4.We actually need her tomorrow. CP baseball made it to semi-state and the game got postponed to Monday due to rain. I am going to take the day off to go down with the T & E. I'm hoping for nice weather, they are saying more rain to come. Good luck, Bulldogs!

Haircut Issue

Last week T took E to get his haircut. Last time they just went to F.Sams instead of the usual salon lady and it went fine. Same normal haircut as usual and much cheaper at FSams.

Well, T called me at work and said "What a GD nightmare!" (then I heard E say that same line asking "What is a GD nightmare?")

HE told the girl to cut the sides with a 2 and longer on top. Well, I guess she asked "Clippers all around?" but T didn't answer her or hear her? He goes to sit down and hears the clippers buzzing. Then he sees her swipe off the top of his hair!! He exclaims, "What are you doing!?His hair has never been this short!" Ethan is sitting there with a reverse mohawk, of sorts, at this point. The girl proceeds to just 'buzz' it off. She said that next time he should say scissors on top and T said, "I don't think there will be a next time"

I mean T didn't explain it enough, but he did explain it in detail. If he wanted a BUZZ CUT for him, THAT IS WHAT HE WOULD HAVE SAID! I mean, isn't that pretty universal cut style-simple buzz cut.

I was really expecting something really drastic. I went to pick him up after work from Mrs. F and told myself to not freak out.

It is the shortest I have seen it, he has no bangs, but it could be much worse.

Mrs. F LOVES his hair! She was really really gushing over him saying he looks soooo cute!

Ethan is fine with the new summer buzz cut, even after T's freak out! I'm happy about that, at least.

We got our new coffee table!! Love it! Ethan loves eating at it now with me.

Here he is Sat. morning eating his breakfast.

I gave him Kix cereal to help him 'Kick' at his soccer game that morning. I'm getting wise to phrase stuff like that with him. Believe me, he wouldn't have tried to eat any of it if I didn't.

Here is what the table looks like with the cool lift top. It is soooo BIG & takes up a lot of our little living room, though.

After soccer we ran our errands-Meijer for impatiens & petunias. I let E browse in toy aisle. I let him pick out a fun summer water toy. We almost got a crazy sprinkler, but decided on a slip & slide-on sale for $8!

I was proud of myself for hooking it all up alone. T was gone most of the day with baseball.

He was afraid of the water squirting out too high. At one point, Ashton walked over and took a drink from the pool area-so funny!

So happy we have nice weather in 70s & 80s this week! T gets to play golf on Thurs & Fri! I'm going to take Friday off.

Ethan's Pre-K Graduation

Wed. was Ethan's graduation from 3 day Preschool. They walked in to Pomp & Circumstance with caps, too!

Singing songs and E was swaying to the beat in a couple of songs.

PreK Grad 2008 singing on Vimeo.

Getting his diploma from Miss Khraila

His Pre-k class

E with his fav girl, Allison. He has told me he loves her and wants to marry her! Her parents saw him and said he was her best bud! We found out that they will not be attending the same school for Kindergarten, though. I can't tell him yet. Isn't that sad that they won't see each other until maybe jr high? He has started making this bashful face, so funny.

Ethan with his best friend & cousin-Matthew

At the reception in the social with their teacher

This past Sunday our new sofa set arrived! So happy with it. Special thanks to Tim for getting us a HUGE discount on it and helping us move it! Thanks to the neighbor kid, from football team, that Trent recruited merely seconds before to help move out the old ones from the living room. T used my dad's truck and we had Tim with his pickup.

Our old set of missmatched sofas...

Nice new matching chocolate brown leather sofa set...from Ashley Furn.

Sally gets the old green couch. She is picking it up on Friday from our garage. T is checking if any seniors would want the old loveseat.

Our coffee table and end table are not in yet, which is odd. Due dates for tables were quoted 2 weeks prior to sofa. Can't wait to get it all in!! The coffee table has a lift top, so cool!

Still need help with window treatments. I'm sick of the blinds. I like this plaid satin panel from Target. The colors work nice, but I don't know if I would like a full wall of these curtains with the new rug pattern. The new set makes the liv. rm really dark, so with these curtains it would seem really dark. I really can't decide! We have had that one panel up for a week now, I still don't know what to do.

I know I need something to totally cover at night for privacy.

I'm so ready for a fun weekend! I hope it is nice weather and gets in the 70s, like they are forecasting. We may walk down to the parade on Monday if it isnt raining. Doesn't it rain every Memorial Day?

I'm working tomorrow. I need to place ads, and start creating new ones if we run them. HJ is taking it off. I'm guessing she is reading this now, too! H-it pleases me so that you actually read my blog!

Have a nice holiday weekend!

Mother's Day

Still getting caught up here...

I had a really nice Mother's Day.

Ethan was so excited to give me my gift early that morning. C was nice and let me pick something out from her store. I got Willow Tree Mother & Son, a mother candle with phrase, and a heart shaped wreath of purple dried flowers. Ethan even made me some things at preschool! I little dish with a rose he made with his hand print and some coupons. I need to take pics of it all. I loved the card that was things about his mommy, too cute.

I just wanted to go out for breakfast at Golden Corral. I so love a breakfast buffet! We did that last year with T's parents, so we invited them again. We met them there at 9:30, which meant we had to miss our church service. There was a long line at that time, too.

I brought C's gift from us and she had another one for me! I made both of our moms custom kleenex boxes with pics of their grandkids on them. Such a neat idea and easy to use website where you can pick the colors, add text or clipart with the photo. They were the world's most expensive boxes of kleenex, though!

T actually had planned for us to go to The Painted Penguin at the mall after breakfast. He had mentioned it a couple of weeks ago when we were checking it out. I truly had forgot about it. E picked out a little bulldog to paint, I chose a cupcake, and T painted an E for Ethan's room. It was a fun outing. We got to pick out 6 paint colors, i got to pick 8! T and I were being such perfectionists with our painting. We kept getting annoyed with E when he would move around and bump the table! Well, we were sitting in a picnic style table, so any move would jar us.

Then we got our pieces glittered and shiny...which took about 15 min so we walked around the mall and ended up in the arcade area...

They had this neat Deal or No Deal game, E loved it and he won like120 tickets with it!

He did awesome at this egg drop game and won the bonus which was 171 tickets! He got to pick out so many little trinkets there. We were there for around 45 min and it was alot of fun for all of us! I didn't realize it was so big back there, plus we were basically the only ones in there playing!

Then around 3pm we took my mom out for ice cream. I picked her up and we met my sister and her kids at Cold Stone Creamery. I had a mint with brownie, and E got chocolate with m&ms.

It was a really rainy day on Sunday.

This weekend I'd like to get some flowers. I'm going to try to pick up some gerber daisies on Friday from Lowes, like my mom just got. I'll probably swing by and get some geraniums from T&Js after getting E at my sister's tomorrow.