Blogging

Just wanted to take a minute to tell you all that a am going to start blogging again VERY soon! Kara came for a visit and showed me a MUCH MUCH easier way to upload pictures and blog. Before, it would take me about 3 hours to do a post. That is why I never blogged! But anywho, new posts are coming soon......

Our May Visit To See The Bramell's

The third weekend in May, we went to Springdale to visit the Bramell's!! As always, we had such a great time. Becca is growing up too fast and the babies are just as sweet and mobile as can be!!! They are everywhere!!!

Saturday morning was FREEZING and Becca had a soccer game. Lee stayed home with the babies and we went to watch Becca. Those little kids were so cute. Becca isn't aggressive at all, so she stayed behind all the other kids. I think next year she will do better. All the other kids have played before too. But she looked so so cute!!! I can't believe how much she looks like Rhonda when she was that age.

Before we left the house! Isn't she the cutest?

The only time she kicked the ball, when it was her turn to start.

Becca and one of her teammates!

They were all so cute.....

....and cold!!!

Drooler

Such a sweet face

And that beautiful hair!!

Carley was checking out Becca's pool we gave her for her birthday!

Wrangling kids and watching tv!

Evan will pull up on anything or anyone that it still!!

Poor guy wants to walk so bad!

And here are the many faces of Evan:

And here are the many faces of Carley:

And the many faces of Becca:

Uncle T, Becca, and Evan playing together! So sweet!!

We had a great time. I can't believe how much I miss these kids! They are growing up so very fast and I feel like I am missing it all! :(

Andrea's Wedding In Hot Springs

On April 23rd, (I know that I am blogging about April and it is June, almost July, but see the three previous post!) we went to Hot Springs to watch a very dear friend of mine get married. Andrea and Jody got married at the Hot Springs Botanical Gardens and it was beautiful. Our other great friend, Brooke, flew in from D.C. to be there. We stayed and Mary's lake house in Hot Springs with Brooke, Aaron, and Mary. They were very gracious and we had the best time. Aaron Jr. and Karen and the boys were there for the wedding. After the wedding, we went on a boat ride around the lake. It was a beautiful afternoon and the water was beautiful!!

This is the chapel at the Gardens. It was very pretty!

This was along a pathway through the gardens. The sound was wonderful.

Me and my hubby

Me and Brooke! I love this picture! I can't wait until October when we vacation with Brooke and Michelle!

I think I caught him off guard.

Andrea getting ready to say I do!

Andrea and Brooke
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(Smalls and Homes)
I have so many wonderful memories of these two ladies! For those that don't know, we lived together my sophomore and their junior year in college in Jonesboro. Stacey also lived with us. Crazy times but I wouldn't trade them for anything!! I have known them all since grade school. I love these girls so much!!!!

Beautiful Bride!

Our Captain and Aaron

A jet skier catching our wake

Some dinner boat/showboat thingy

There were some beautiful houses on the lake but this one was the biggest by far! It was enormous. I want to say Aaron said it was something like 8,000 square feet!

Tyto and Homes drinking it up!!!
Love this picture too!!!

Yard Makeover Part 3

So this is the last post about the house this round! I still have a lot of other stuff to blog about so no more house blog for a few blogs! Ha! I am doing this to scrapbook what we have done. We have done all the following since we got back from vacation.

A few months back, a plumber backing out of the neighbor's driveway hit our mailbox. It has had the wobbles ever since. I hated our old mailbox anyway. So Jonathan built and stained the pole and we bought the mailbox and letters!

We got the steps up, now it is time to get the other half of the flowerbed done!

Don't let your eyes deceive you, that is a lot of work! Those rocks are heavy and you have to place them just right so that the dirt won't seep through the holes. You also have to find level rocks that will match up to each other and be wobbly! Backache!!

Flowers ready to go in the ground!

These flowers look tiny compared to the other side! I guess that is what I get for planting them 3 weeks apart! Couldn't help it though! That would be way too much labor to do back to back weekends!

Another shot!

We had two crappy camping chairs on the front porch. We bought these instead! Much better! But we needed a table/beer holder so Jonathan built us a little table! Again, my handyman, hard at work!

I helped him stain part of the table.

I must tell you though, I am not a good stainer. It is not my calling.

He even did the edges all pretty and dog eared.

Ta Da!

This is what our house looks like now. Our next project is going to be getting the rest of that concrete up and the front deck built. We are making stairs coming down off the front porch, on the side there, onto a wood deck. The deck will come out even with the flowerbeds. That ugly concrete will be partly hammered up and partly covered. We have to build a retaining wall along the backside of the concrete to keep water from coming against the house. You won't be able to see it because of the deck.

I just smile looking at it!

This is before. The second time we looked at the house before we bought it. July 2011 will be 2 full years! Look at the difference! It doesn't look like the same house. I sure hope all this hard work pays off when the appraiser comes when we want to refinance or sell!!!!

AFTER!!!!!!

Home Sweet Home!!