Tuesday's Twelve

Although it is only Tuesday, this week has been packed with appointments and agenda's.

1. Yesterday, was my annual doctor visit. Everything went OK there,
2. I got his opinion on my achy left arm that has been annoying me the last few months.
3. He touched my left shoulder blade and I felt a sharp pain...just like that he said "go see a chiropractor, you may have a nerve that is pinched".  Hhhhmmmm, for months I have been thinking my circulation was bad. Here he has diagnosed me with one touch. I guess that is why I haven't received my PHD yet. LOL
4. I went to pick up Devin after school yesterday and spent 20 minutes in the car rider pick up space before he ever noticed I was there.  Uuuugggghhhh, so much for trying to get there early.
5. This morning, I got up early, got dressed and went to Sparta to pick up my mom at 7am.
6. I got back to C-ville, picked up Brooke and dropped her off at school.
7. Then I dropped mom off at the doctors office and headed back home to scoop up Devin.  It was about 8:15 when I got Devin to school.
8. I took a quick trip to Cracker Barrel this morning after I had everyone delivered to their destination.
9. Mom had a "stress test" and a nerve test ran on her legs today, which took four hours. When I got my mom back home,
10. I sprayed her driveway down with "Round Up" since the grass was taking over the gravel. On my way back home, I decided to stop at the grocery store and get all the ingredients for a home cooked meal.
11. Brookelynn's friend Treasure called this evening to see if Brooke could come to watch Journey's ball game with her. I said "sure, but you have to eat dinner first".
12. We had meatloaf, mashed potato's and corn. It must have been Cracker Barrel that got me in the mood for some country cookin'.

Early Weekend

Traditionally, we are either right on time for gatherings or we are "fashionably" late. This weekend, we broke the pattern and made it to every event on our agenda early.

It started Friday evening when Brookelynn and I made it Stacia's JEWEL KADE party twenty-five minutes early. Stroker, Devin, and Gary all went out on a "guys only" dinner at Bobby-Q's while us girls gathered and giggled.

Saturday rolled around and we managed to clear our agenda long enough to hang out at a church outreach event at Jere Whitson park. We didn't get to stay long. Saturday was a busy one.

Sunday morning, we woke to the sound of thunder and got up a bit earlier than normal for Sunday. We got up, got dressed and made it to church twenty minutes early.

Sunday afternoon, we hit the road and headed to Murfreesboro to Ansley's birthday party. She turns nine today. We stopped to eat on the way and still got to the party ten minutes before schedule.

The hit for the birthday party was the hurricane simulator with 78.5 mph winds.

Devin decided to give the spider crawl a try.

Size 12

Speaking of how summer has flown by this year, I stumbled across something today that really makes me stop and think about how father time seems to be  stuck in fast forward.
As I was searching the house for Brookelynn's "Jr. Titan's Cheerleader" uniform to try to squeeze in one last year, I ran across Devin's first pair of Air Jordans.  Of course I had to to compare them to the size 12 that he wears now.

Where has the past fifteen years gone?
 Is there a pause button anywhere that I can push?

Cool Down

The weather this weekend turned out to be sooo nice. Friday night, when we went to dinner with M&M, we sat out on the patio while we ate at Crawdaddy's. We had a fun time. Yesterday had storms in the forecast, but it turned out to be just a cloudy day with temperatures in the 80's. Today was sunny and temps. in the mid 80's. It felt like Fall weather is just around the corner. I am not a real big fan of Fall, Spring and Summer are my favorites, but the drop in the temperature sure feels welcome. I like days that are not so hot that it suffocates me to step outdoors. It's hard to believe that summer ends (Labor Day) in three weeks. I feel like I blinked and missed summer this year. We never got in our trip to Holiday World either, but I guess the beach made up for that.
As for today, I got the front door painted, scrubbed and sanitized the kitchen sink and counter, organized the consignment sale stuff and sat in the front yard swing with a tall glass of iced tea. The breeze felt so nice that I couldn't resist a quick lap around Cane Creek Park...so that is what I did.

The rest of the Hayes household just kind of hung around the house getting rested up for the week ahead.

How was your weekend?

Saturday Shuffle

Friday morning started off kind of sour when I arrived at Julian's Body Shop to drop off my car so he could finish fixing the damage from the crash in June. After scheduling the repair for Friday, he informed me that he had too much other work going on to guarantee that he could finish my car in one day. So, I called Amanda, who was on her way to pick me up, to cancel the ride. As luck would have it, she didn't get the call and drove to Julian's anyway.
For lunch, Stroker met me at O'Charley's. His plan was to leave work at 10 am since I wasn't supposed to have a car and we could run errands together.
Even though my car plans went south, Stroker left work anyway and we enjoyed a nice, peaceful lunch together. After school, Brookelynn went to spend the night with my sister. Jett was spending the night too, so I am sure they kept each other entertained.

 Stacia sent this picture of Jett after his t-ball game this week. I thought he might have slid into first base...turns out, he just likes the dirt...He cracks me up :)

My friend M and her husband M met us for dinner last night. We went to CrawDaddy's and listened to the music and enjoyed a good meal with some good company. It's obvious that we are getting older. We were yawning and back home by 11:30. We just can't hang out like we used to.

Today was a continuous road trip. We hit Jackson County, White County, Dekalb County and finally back to Putnam County. We spent 90% of the day in the truck. We also enjoyed dinner at El Tap with Gary, Darlene, Delano, Stacia, Jett and Dash.

Fun at the Fair

We took Brookelynn and Treasure for a night of spinning and twirling at the county fair tonight.  Devin decided that he would rather sit this adventure out, so he stayed home.

The girls had a fun time, but as the night wore on, their tummy's began to reach their limit. On our way out, we stood at the grand stands and watched a couple of trucks compete for the farthest distance of mud racing. Typical Tennessee redneck stuff.

 

 

It's turned out to be a late night getting in the bed, and to add to the late bedtime, we have to get up early tomorrow because it is "Fantastic Friday".

Tomorrow night is  double date night for us. Dinner at Crawl Daddy's and a movie.