Operation!

So Dave asked me to take out his stitches from the removal of his skin cancer. Of course I jumped at the chance! This was right after I had read Mike's cousin's blog, he is a foot surgeon and he had cut a hunk of his hide out of his knuckle and took it upon himself to "operate" on it at his kitchen table! I couldn't do that to myself but boy if I could help inflict pain on others, I guess that's my specialty, I love helping people!


Cienna was taking pictures, she failed to get my official Hanna Montana scissors that I used to cut the stitches, Dave got a little nervous when I pulled those out! Rest assured It was all good I didn't cut him once!

The finished product! I offered to Pluck his whiskers too but to my surprise he declined?? Although I did get a couple trying to get to the stitches. Good as new And I didn't even hurt him too bad.

July 24th

So obviously I am still a little tired from yesterday because I put all these pictures in backward order, and I am too lazy to switch them around so here is our day from night to morning! We ended the night with the dance, Joel is not a dancer ( takes after his dad I guess) but I did get one picture of him on the dance floor getting his glow in the dark ring.


here are a lot of kids dancing in the dark with there light sticks, bracelets, and rings. they had a ball!

Doing the chicken dance!

the afternoon was the community lunch and program which the girls sang in, but Mike and I were helping get the food ready and didn't get to hear them or get any pictures :( Then they played lots of games, then it was time for a nap at least for Mike and I! The morning was the parade the girls were the Irrigating Acrobats it was very entertaining!

Joel and Hunter wanted to ride bikes and throw candy. so here they are on their John Deere Bikes!

here is the end of the race the kids were in first thing in the morning Delaney ran the mile in 8 min and came in first Cienna was second at about 13 min. not to bad! they both won pies!

here come Cienna to the finish line!

Delaney crossing the line look at how excited she is! she loves this kind of thing!

Here is everyone at the starting line- I did it last year but didn't this year. The funny thing is Joel ran it too but he didn't come back I was starting to get a little worried so I went to look for him, well he didn't turn around at the mile mark and kept running with the adults who were running the 5K! I can't believe no one turned him around the poor kids was exhausted!

Well that was our day in a nut shell, it was a fun day but when this time comes around it is also kind of sad because it always means that summer is almost over. But that also means then I might be able to keep up on laundry and keep the house clean again!

wind!

There was one crazy windstorm the other night that came through town there were bracnches all over and this is what happened to what used to be our cafe! Smached right down the middle! Glad no one was in there!


not a great picture but this is an 80 ft pine tree.

This one almost landed on someones house! It only lasted a few minutes but boy was it fierce! I'm sure glad we don't get tornados!

look what we won!

So we went to Cars 2 opening day and we got fancy water bottles that change color when cold we even got our treats for free (thanks to Auntie April) and we all put our name in the State Farm drawing and guess what we WON! They called the other day and said that we had until Friday to claim our prize what could it be?? My mind reeled with thoughts of spa treatments or a free dinner, sadly that was not the case this is what we got boy was Joel thrilled! Not so sure it was worth the drive but the kids were excited to win! You really have got to laugh about it! Now where to put it when I don't want it on the window anymore??

4th of July weekend!

The kids had friends o ver for a swimming party, they had a great time enjoying the sunshine!

The night sky was gorgeous that night.

How rednecks light fireworks, he also uses the welder to light the trash?? I don't ask!

I made layered drinks the white didn't work but the red and blue worked great, it was fun!

the finished product, aren't they pretty.

they made cookies with Granny Kay!

It was a fun relaxing weekend with friends! Nothing much but I thought that I needed to update my blog. Hope you all had a very happy fourth!

Granma Turns 80!

We had an 80th birthday party for grandma it wasn't a surprize, but the fact that my sister and I were there was! Here is Aunt Paula pinning on her flower.

The sign in table, Everyone wrote a favorite memory to put in a book for her!

Uncle Jackie and his wife Andrea shocked Grandma when they snuck in the back.

Me and Grandma

My cousin Allen and Grandma!

Some of the great grandkids My kids, 2 of my sisters and one great great grandkid!

Me Allen and April

We were standing outside the womens bathroom taking pictures and we didn't know that grandma was in there! We shocked her again when she opened the door so we got her in the picture too! My cousin Niki, me Gandma, Allen, & April!

Us laughing as she came out!

Aunt Paula and Pat

Grandma and Grandpa a LONG time ago! Oh what fun to think of all the memories! It was such a fun day. The roads were snowy and we had falling rock in the canyon but it was so worth the drive! It was great to see everyone!

Who wants to eat at my house??

So the rain kept coming and coming and coming! Our chest freezer is on our back patio and the rain was dripping off the roof. There was so much of it that it started running in through the seal of the door. This is a chunk that we finally got out at the end, those are my cherries, the flour that I had in there made a gross paste! Oh what a mess!!!


Another chunk of ice, so much for the tator tots :( We were able to salvage most of the meat that was in freezer paper thankfully it was also wrapped in plastic! As the meat thawed enough to break it out of the ice I brought it in too cook it. I think that I cooked 17# of hamburger, The rest fit in our other freezer. The yucky stuff the pigs got to eat they seemed to like it!

Here is the freezer when we tipped it on its end, Still pretty frozen, we sprayed high pressure water in there to get the ice to break up, it was about 1 1/2 feet deep! I think that the freezer still works so thats a good thing and we are having a cover made for it so when the next flood comes it should be ok!