I'd like for you all to meet my "special" friend Becky.





She likes to collect bellybutton lint and used staples. She's a whiz at battleship and she is a tv expert on the 80's show Punky Brewster. She enjoys her job at McDonald's where she's in charge of wiping off tables. If you see her there be sure to say hi.

It finally happened to me...

You've all heard stories from the women in your life about a time when they lost their wedding ring. Well, now I have my own story to tell and hopefully it'll be the only story for the rest of my life.

Last Sunday I picked up my mom and my sister in law because we were all going to a baby shower. My mom and I were sitting in the car at SIL's house waiting for her to come out the door and my mom who recently broke her arm asked if I would help her put lotion on her good arm. (My dad gets grossed out by lotion so he wouldn't do it). So I took off my ring and sat it in my lap and proceeded to lotion up her arm. After I was done with that I wasn't sure if SIL knew we were in her driveway cause we'd been sitting there for awhile. I decided to hop out and go to the door to get her and I forgot the ring was on my lap!

My SIL comes out and we get in the car and we head off to the baby shower and I am completely unaware that my ring is gone.

Once we get to the shower and I walked in the door I realized that I had lost my ring. I then start to panic and of course I am now crying at the realization. I frantically call my brother and I am trying to explain to him through my sobbing that I think my ring may be in his gravel driveway. While I was still on the phone with him, he stepped outside to look and in a few minutes he had found it! I was so relieved. That's what we have insurance for, but still a replacement would never have been the same.

Moral of this story, I won't put lotion on my mom's arm while in the car. :) And I will be more careful where I take off my ring.

Follow-up to April Post

Ok, so back in April I posted that I had about 10 friends or family members that were expecting babies. I thought I'd update the list and add a few more.

Patty (cousin) --boy
Lynette (neighbor) --girl
Karen (HS friend) --girl
Tonya (mta friend) --boy
Michelle (mta friend) --boy
Heather (TCC friend) -- boy

Jennifer (cousin) --still waiting
Katrina ( mta friend) --still waiting, due in a few weeks

Here are some recent add-ons to my list:

Gina
Corrie

It's a baby-palooza around here!

Take a look

Here's a link to the landscaping pictures we've taken. They start with the before and the last ones were taken yesterday.


http://tinyurl.com/q5uma

finally...pictures

The basement looks soooo much better and it feels so clean!

home improvement projects

Dan and I have been working hard this past week to get some projects done around the house. We fianlly got the basement ceilings, walls, foundation ledges and the floor painted. What a world of difference paint makes. It no longer feels like a 1926 basement. There's still more to be done, but the big project of painting is over.


I was able to get some shrubs planted in the new beds that we had put in around the house. I need to get a few more because it seems a bit bare on one corner and I still need to mulch everything. But, it's starting to look so much better. The landscapers finished up the flower beds in the back of the yard and around the gargage. I think we'll wait till next year to put the flowers in. We've spent enough money on the yard for one summer. The landscapers will have to come back and level the yard so we can plant new grass. Having new grass will make such a big difference-I can't wait to see it when it's all done.

I wanted to post pics of our improvements but Blogger is having issues with picture uploads. I'll have to try again later.