Wordless Wednesday

Two for Tuesday

Cletus went for a grooming today. He looks so much better and I am sure he feels better too. Although, he wasn't feeling very photogenic this evening.

Devin had an orthodontist appointment today to check on his retainers. Everything seems to be just as they are supposed to be.

Dinner and Bathrooms

Saturday was our annual dinner at Golden Coral with my entire family.
Daddy treats us all to dinner each August to celebrate our birthdays.  The only downfall of meeting at Golden Coral is that we don't really get a chance to hang out and talk much. I am not sure what the final count was for all of us there on Saturday, but I would guesstimate it to be around 32. 
This is a photo of the those who were not at the buffet at the time of the snapshot. It's a little blurry, but it is all that I have.

 I think that Dash enjoyed dessert most of all...Who doesn't enjoy a chocolate ice cream cone ?!

Gary and Tent came over to our house Saturday evening to cap off some plumbing in our old bathroom that we decided to remodel. Little did we know, five hours later, we would have the entire bathroom gutted (except for the toilet). We even removed the old cast iron bath tub (which was quite a task). 
After having everything out of the room and exposing the floor, we thought that the floor was going to have to come up too due to old water leaks.
Sunday, my brother came over to access the situation and helped us determine that we were going to have to tear out the floor all the way down to the floor joists.
Monday, Kevin and Mike (my brothers) showed up and spent the day tearing out the floor, bracing the floor joists and placing a whole new sub floor. They took out the last fixture in the bathroom too (the toilet). It sat in the front yard all day. Check out the upcoming post on Wednesday. 
Whew, we sure had no idea we would be this far along today. We thought we were just closing off some water pipes this weekend.
I am so grateful and blessed to have people in my family that know what the heck their doing when it comes to saws, tape measures and PVC pipe.

Oh yeah...I almost forgot...Cookeville City Public Works showed up today to clear some ditch line for the storm water runoff. My email last week must have made a difference.



Fantastic Friday

Brookelynn came to me last night with the idea that we should have "Fantastic Fridays". Just what is "Fantastic Friday's" you ask. Well, that's when we get up extra early and go out for breakfast before school. We were at IHOP at 6 am this morning. Devin even jumped out of bed and joined us. Breakfast was good and everybody got to school early for a change. I don't know if this new trend that Brooke has started will last or not, but I sure felt the "fantastic" results of jumping up early most of the day. I have been draggin' around since noon.
Although we were tired, we set out on a mission to get the family room repainted yesterday. Today, we applied the second coat and put the room back together. The color I chose this time is "polished silver'. I think it was a nice change from the tan color it has been for years. It's kind of hard to tell anything about the color in my photos. The lighting and the hardwood floor and ceiling always make the pictures look too warm.

before

 our new wall quote

Tonight, Brookelynn has a friend over for a sleepover. Tomorrow, we meet my daddy and twenty five other family members for dinner at Golden Corral.

Sunday, we plan to visit my mom for a while.

Gonna be another busy weekend.  Oh yeah, Titan's cheer leading is getting ready to gear up. Brookelynn has decided to join them again this year. We will be getting her paperwork sent in this weekend.

Blogiversary

 So, here I am, two years and 282 blogs later. Looking back on events in the past two years, I see so many changes in everything...in our home, in our children, in our state of mind.  I spent a while today just looking back through some of our "happenings". There were several that I particularly enjoyed looking back on.  You can view a few of them HERE, HERE and HERE.

We are growing here at the Hayes House, mentally, physically and spiritually.

Wednesday Wrap Up

Wow! It's August already. Where did June and July go?

We finished up last weekend with a really good family reunion dinner at Mildred's. I got a group photo of the ones that were there at the time. Some people drifted in and out all weekend, making their rounds and visiting other family members around town. Some didn't stop by at all, but that is ok, there was a time when I didn't attend the reunions either. The first few years that I dated Stroker, I didn't know very many family members and didn't feel all that comfortable in a crowd of strangers. By the time we were married, we were attending all the family events. I am thankful that we do so much together as a family and I am glad to be a part of this family. When I married Stroker, I knew exactly what I was getting myself into.  It's important to spend time with loved ones every chance you get. You just never know when it might be your last time.

That's me in the back with the cataract sunglasses (as Stroker calls them)



I also got a lot of mosquito bites this past weekend. I have clawed my legs and ankles to the point that I almost need a skin graft.

Monday, Stroker finally got around to mowing the grass. He mentioned it all weekend, but we were just too busy to get anything done around our house. I rearranged some of the photos in the family room to make room for a vinyl wall quote that I ordered to commemorate the kids being saved.

Of course, nothing is as easy as I originally plan. After moving the photos, I filled in the nail holes with some putty and searched a dozen cans of paint that we have stored looking for the leftover paint that matches the walls. As luck would have it, we have none. So, I looked for the swatch so that I could go by Lowe's to buy enough to touch up the walls...I have no swatch either. Looks like I will have to repaint the whole room. Ugh.

We trimmed a couple of tree limbs and trimmed the hedge that has taken a growing spell on Tuesday. We spent the evening at home that day. Highly unusual.
Today kicked off the annual "Smart Card" Sale. If you need one, let us know. We have sold a couple already, but Brooke hopes to sell more.
Tonight at church, we had a fellowship dinner before class. The theme was breakfast. I took a cheese danish...again.
At the end of our class, Debi had us play a couple of games to close the night. For the last game, we had to number off...1,2...1,2...1,2...around the room. I was number "2", then Debi handed us a roll of toilet paper. at that point, I made it clear that I wanted no part of a game that involved toilet paper and me being number 2...LOL
Speaking of LOL. When did "LOL" evolve from "lots of love" to "laugh out loud"?
Did that just emerge in the texting era? Should I feel old for remembering  "LOL in the age of "lots of love"? Ok, so now I'm just being random. Time for bed.