Saturday was cookout day for us. We just chilled at home and the in-laws came over. I have been eatin so much good/bad food this week it's ridiculous! Tastes good, yet so bad for me. I may not want to get in a bathing suit this summer. I've had McD's 2x this week, including the fries *gasp!*, fish and chips, pizza, lots of soda *gasp again* (because i don't like the water at my in-laws house and that's where I was most of the week) pumpkin cookies from my amish neighbors, meat & cheese from a new bulk food store cristy and I discovered, coconut pie, apple crisp & ice cream, burgers/hotdogs & chips, cheesy potatoes, chips-chips-and more chips. I might be the one in ICU next week! YIKES that's a lot of junk food! I'll move on now, cuz thinking about it is making me want to puke or go eat more, i'm not sure which. Maybe when Craig took the kids to play basketball or for a bike ride, I should have gone with them.
Justin & Courtney made sure we all had a good time at the cookout, they were in charge of entertainment. They made a checklist and made us all mark what we'd like to do. We played Red Rover because Craig had never heard of it and we had to make sure he left ohio knowing how to play it...just in case he should ever need to play it again:-) BTW the older you get, the more it HURTS!!!!! I bought a bullseye game where you have to throw little dart like "thingys" and try to get a bullseye but we got creative and played a bunch of different games with them. Who can throw the furthest...... then who can throw the farthest left handed, backwards, etc. the kids got inventive with it. Then they played baseball with the pool noodles which is much harder than it looks!!! We even had an egg toss. And of course Gunner was loving all the attention (and loving all the dropped food) :-) Fishing was interesting since Craig, being a city boy, has never caught a fish before. He finally got one, but I wasn't there to get a pic of his proud moment. Craig also got to chop wood for the first time :-) and he took Gunner for several runs all the way around the lake. Gunner is loving it cuz I sure don't do that. it's like 6 or 7 miles around the lake there's no way I'm doing it! Gunner lived with Craig and Cristy for 3 years while we were in SC so it was quite fun for Gunner to be with both his families, he was in heaven :-)
look, my FIL is actually relaxing!
gunner and hailey, love her pretty lil polka-dot cloth diapers! so cute!
playing fetch ...... doggy heaven, the neighbors dog was sooooo jealous
noodle baseball, not so easy....
Hey Craigles, that's Haileys bike!
Perfect temperature and plenty of sun. Oh my stars it was a beautiful day!!!!!
Justin & Courtney giggling over the worms
Craigs way of fishing......1.look for a fish 2. drop the line on it's head
LOL why bother casting right?!
I thought about working out this morning but instead Cody & I starting moving the big HUGE pile of wood. cha-ching instant workout! It'll probably take us allllll stinking summer. We found all sorts of interesting bugs and spiders in there and a couple of snake skins. Makes me glad I had gloves on!!!! We used to always have to help my parents stack wood, we carried it by the armful and without gloves :-( yuck yuck yuck!!!! I made sure we had gloves and a wheelbarrow---cuz I'm the mom and I said so :-) 
Now I'm off to make a carrot cake (from scratch--hope I have carrots!) to take my my mama's house tonight. We are going to hang with the fam for a while cuz Liz, Cora and Craig will be there plus I'm dividing some of Mom's hostas to plant over here, cuz I have NO landscaping what so ever, unless you count the woods.......that sorta counts right?
Even Gunner sings Karaoke!
Justin was cracking up over Cody & Shane's singing
Justin was very VERY serious about getting this song right so he could beat Shane, not bad for a 7 year old eh?! just wish the lighting was better so you could see his face, cuz his expression were soooo cute. click PLAY to watch the video.........
Miss Hailey
Grandma & Hailey
Friday night my In-laws came to stay the night and "help" with the garage sale the next day. (they ended up going shopping at other garage sales). Then they took the kids home with them to spend the night, Courtney and Grandma went to the Mother/Daughter banquet and courtney made a lovely straw hat for me. Cody and Gramps mowed the lawn at the church and did "guy stuff". Then they hung out with the amish neighbors, went to get ice cream and Cody got to drive the buggy home LOL wish I had pics of that!!! Duane & I got to go on a date!!!! We went out to eat with Lizard and Craig (who we reallllly like) and went to see Iron Man which we also realllly liked. I had no interest what so ever in the movie before, but it was surprisingly good! Got to see Sarge's new army office too, with the new furniture they just got, you can't really see it but there is a really big flatscreen tv in there.. ooooooh aaaaaaah I can't wait till he get all his stuff hung up on the walls (and out from behind my loveseat)
My SIL (and family) are here for a few days because Sarge's Dad is in the hospital (ICU!) Not sure what's going on yet, but he became violently sick & Migrane-y (i made that up) shortly after we picked the kids up at church. Hope my kids didn't drive him nuts!!! They are running all sorts of tests, MRI's and such, so hopefully we'll find out something soon. But at least we get to spend time with Cristy for the next few days :-) Duane's parents were suppose to be going to visit her in MI this weekend, and my FIL says they are still going!!!! The man is still in ICU and he thinks he's going up to MI in a few days to help Craig and Cristy WORK on their house!!! LOL The guy never stops working!!!! Hmmm maybe this is God's way of telling him to slow down????? Pray he'll feel better soon, they'll figure out what's wrong AND that he will learn to slow down and rest.
look how tall my "baby" is getting!!! he's 5'8" already!
