For My Corny Friends

This is what remains of my first garden. Since I was "tagged" with the corn bug, here it is you corny girls!

This is proof that I did grow corn!

John Deere Green

"The orange tastes like oranges, the red tastes like watermelon, and the green tastes like.......John Deere!!!!"

CKUh-oh

Went to CKU (Creating Keepsakes University) this weekend. That's a scrapbook get-together. Had a GREAT time. It was held at Opryland Hotel and Mimi and Buzzy went with me. They left early on Saturday and I rode home with K and her mom and aunt. We took five scrapbook classes that day and got a bunch of stuff done, got a LOT of free stuff, and had a really good time. That is until...

I decided to do a "stupid human trick." You know how it is. Your friend dares you to do something and you just have to do it because, well, they said you wouldn't. Yes, I am 27, closely approaching 28, years old. Yes, I would preach to my own son not to do it. And, yes, I now realize what a STUPID idea it was. But like I said, I was dared, it had to be done.

K, Carol, Susie and I were having an ice cream break in the Delta area of Opryland. When we were finished we were headed back to the convention area and I acted like I was going to go up the down escalator. K said "You won't do it." But, yeah, I did. And after I made it to the TOP!!! I lost a step somewhere and, well, I now look like this.








Those little spots in the center of the bruise are from the little teethy things that interlock when the steps flatten out. I also got my ankle and my wrist. They just don't look quite as bad. Let's just say, I don't think I'll be trying to run up the downward moving escalator again. EVER!!!!




On a happier note, got my koi. They are so cool, just won't come to the surface. They like chilling around the filter and bothering me, because I want them to come to the surface. I am being impatient, as usual, and I know they have to get acclimated, but still, they need to get on with it!! This is five of the six of them. Haven't named all of them. I do have a Pearl. You guessed it! It's the white shiny one! How original, huh?

Redneck Swimming pool #2

My husband is brilliant. From time to time he has to remind me what brilliance he posseses. (Ok when you get done throwing up, you can continue here.)What I mean by brilliant is...he's brilliantly HANDY. I, like most women, always have a long list of of honey-do jobs for him that hardly ever get noticed! But....he told me that if I wanted a fish pond, that he would dig it for me when he rented the machinery to dig stuff at the mill. So, he held true to his word and we now have a fish pond!


I was only posing in the picture. I stood there smiling and asked Mimi if she was done yet, dropped the shovel and sat down to watch! I placed all of the rocks around the outer edges of the pool though. Steve is responsible for the rock work around the waterfall. It was a little more difficult for a simple mind like mine!
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We are still working on it. Have a little more rock work to do. Then it will be all done. Can you find the froggy in the last picture?




I don't know why, but there is some sort of greek showing up in my post. I have tried to get it off, but I'm making a mess, so it's staying for now!

Watermelon delivery

Papaw brought Buzzy a watermelon today. Papaw and his BFF Jr. had been out doing their thing and ran into some watermelons. Papaw's poor little car was probably having a hard time carrying all of the watermelons in the trunk! Buzzy was so excited and was going to carry the melon by himself, but then he decided that Papaw needed to carry it. K came over and he had to show it to her. It was in the fridge and he told her to "look at this baby!"

Kara asked him what he did today. He answered " oh nothing, just me and my Mimi hangin out!" He comes up with the darndest things! Kiddos are so fun!

Weekend highlights

Racing on Friday night again. Steve's car wasn't too great, but he drove good. He will be working on it this week for sure! Steve has quite a fan club. Every race brings a different group of friends or family. His mom, dad, and brother, Ryan came this Friday. Buzzy hasn't seen his Uncle Ryan since Christmas and he LOVES his Uncle Ryan! I think Ryan would have a sidekick if we lived closer together! Steve always had fun with his Uncle Mikey and I know that Ryan would be just like that to Buzzy! An ali and someone to help get you in trouble!!












I just like this picture of Steve. No story, just like it!


















Buzzy has to have someone hold his ears everytime the car starts. They are loud, but he has always been funny about his ears and loud noises. He's getting better. After the car is started, he's cool. He just don't like that shocking sound of that engine!














Steve, Buzzy and I went on a date Saturday night. We went to Red Lobster and to the mall in Bowling Green. I think we should just move there, since we spend so much time there anyway! We went to Fishy Business to get fishies for the tank. We got two+a baby one that snuck in. As soon as we released them, Buzzy has them named! The baby that stays under the decor is "Hidey", then there is "Black spot tail" and get this, "Pipe Smeller" He came up with those all by himself! Me and Steve cracked up over the Pipe Smeller! When we let it out of the bag, it went over to the filter and stayed and that's how it got the name "Pipe Smeller." The end!

That black spot between the marbles is Hidey!

Can you figure out which is which?

Spare time...finally!

I am so glad to say that I have gotten my house to a clean point that I don't feel guilty for scrapbooking! I have wanted to scrapbook so bad since I got all of my stuff together for the failed retreat, but my house has been in such a mess that I just would not let myself scrapbook until I got my house to a point that I wouldn't be embarressed if unannounced company were to show up! (The flower beds don't count because it's too hot to breath outside, but as soon as it cools a smidget, the guilt will start again.) I cleaned on Buzzy's room all day Monday. I mean ALL day. Started after lunch and K helped me finish up after we all went to eat supper that night. I didn't just hide stuff in the closet and under his bed. The closet got cleaned, K and I pulled his bed out and vacuumed under it and I washed his quilt. I mean it is CLEAN! And it's Friday and it still looks good. That's like a record! I got my bathroom painted before we went to the mountains, my upstairs is still clean and my house looks GOOD, for me, that is!

I did two pages last night. I was So darn excited! I just had to put them on here! I am almost a year behind on his album, but hey, two down, 5000 to go!

Luau

Pappy, Mimi and Buzzy went to the Luau at church last weekend. They had a whole bunch of fun. Pappy got to play some kind of game. He had on a bikini top, huge mens swimming shorts, a straw hat, and I think flippers. When the bigguns got done with their game, the littluns played the same. Pappy helped with them, and from what I hear, he put on quite the show!! Buzzy had on all the same stuff plus goggles and some other things, i think. If anybody has pictures (Mary Ann) let me know. I would love to get copies of my guys!

Bathing Beauties

I took Buzzy and Chandler to the Greevville pool on Monday. Buzzy had his little heart set on swimming lessons, but we waited too late in the summer to try to sign up. We went to the park first and had a picnic. We had ham sandwiches and chocolate chip cookies. Chandler is Buzzy's favorite friend. He loves her! He was so excited when I told him that she was going to go swimming with us!







They played in the big pool most of the time, but I was always with them, so the only good pictures I got of them was when they were in the kiddie pool! They had shark fights and for some reason, those sharks kept getting after my toes!! The pool had a ten minute pool check, 10 minutes before each hour. We used that ten minutes to go get hot at the park, have a cookie break, and then head back to the pool. Chandler had Buzzy floating out away from the ladder and she even talked him into taking his life jacket off! I was so proud. I think she should be a swimming instructor at the age of 6!! I think he really needed a friend around his age to help with the water confidence. He was doing so good by the time we left. He got whiney - the HUGE difference between the 4 and 6 year olds - but promised that he wasn't tired, but......

this was the look before we even got to Chandler's house!! He was beat. She thought it was funny when I reminded her that he wasn't sleepy!! It was such a fun day! I only wish that we had started it sooner. She starts school on Thursday. Buzzy won't have a swimming friend, just Momma. I hope I will do!

Back from the Mountains

We are back from the mountains. We had such a good time and this is the first time, that I can recall, that if Steve didn't have things to do, we all would have wanted to stay longer. The weather was nice. It rained off and on, but it wasn't too hot and our room rocked!!!!! I told Steve I wanted to buy a retirement home there....now!!!

Buzzy was out of control excited. Poor Austin! He's the "big" guy that Buzzy loves, wants to do EVERYTHING with, wants his entire attention, all the time!! I think Austin was thrilled when him and his parents went to do their own thing!!




We played miniature golf EVERYDAY!! We played Hillbilly Golf, Fantasy Golf and Davy Crockett twice. We visited the Nascar speedpark on our way out and found out quickly that we should have went there before we were headed home. There was so much to do and not enough time to do it in!


Buzzy found the #24 parking spot and had to have his picture taken with it! Anytime he sees a Jeff Gordon anything or a "Dearnhardt" anything he squeals for us to look. He gets so darn excited. If he sees a 24 ANYWHERE, he tells us. A price tag, a sign, a billboard...anything! He is so excited about numbers right now and it's so cool! He wants to change stevie's 28 to a 24!




He wanted to do the trampoline thingy at the go cart track. We could not believe it! He never wants to do anything like that, so we figured he would back out before he did it, but no. The girl had him doing front and back flips! He loved it and cracked up the whole time!!

It took us forever to get home. We got stuck in a wreck on I40 and had to take the backroads to I65. Had to stop by the race track in BG to get tires and then onto Russellville for race car parts. I won't be seeing Stevie much between now and Friday. Got to get that car ready.

For those that don't know, he did AWESOME last Friday. Qualified 6th. The field was inverted 6 deep, so he started on the pole. Had about a 4 or 5 car lenghth lead until first caution. On the restart, fell back to about 5 or 6. Made his way back to 2nd with 3 laps to go and was wrecked going across the finish line. Ended up finishing 4th. It was so great and my video ran out with three laps to go. The most exciting of the ENTIRE race. Story of my life!

Let's Just say.....Disaster

After a late start - thanks to me-, a traffic jam, and a shady host at the barn, Kara, Carol, Susie, Diane, and I (and the other 5 women that we didn't know)had a disastrous Scrapbook Retreat. That's not mentioning the building inspector or deputy that came and condemned the building about 30 minutes after we arrived. We weren't complaining! They were definately guardian angels sent to protect us! Driving back home didn't bother me. If we hadn't been so far, I would have went home anyway. We had driven about 3 1/2 or 4 hours. There was a group of 3 that had driven 3 hours, and the other two were from Indianapolis. They said it was about 45 minutes.


Anyway...when we arrived, the man was in a great hurry to get us unloaded and our cars moved. He was taking the cars and parking them at a different location. Of course I had to be hard to get along with, as usual. I told him that I wanted my truck where I could get to my phone charger, which was the truth. THat's the only charger I have for my phone. He was insistent that I keep my truck on the little road directly behind the barn. Of course I didn't listen and I parked beside it. When I came up the porch on the back, through the garbage, to the front door, that was locked, I just felt a little uneasy. I went upstairs to Kara and told her that something wasn't right. We talked a little and she went downstairs to wash her hands and came right back up. She had a funny look on her face and informed me that the police were downstairs.


In just a few minutes, the door opened and in came the deputy, building inspector, and another lady from the county planning something or other. THey informed us that the building was not safe and that we needed to get loaded and out ASAP. I was wanting to dance and sing! Come to find out, this dude's barn had been condemned before and he had opened it back up, without permission, one other time before. He was in deep poopy! He had hid his red paper that said the building was condemned, but he had hung up another red paper saying that the retreat had been moved. We left and went the wrong way, but when we drove back by, they had strung the yellow, Do Not Cross, tape around the front of the building. They told us that the man and his wife had divorced and she was the one that started the retreat. He has it now and he was running it in the ground. That said he was a shady character and if he tried to contact any of us, to have NOTHING to do with him. Is that a guardian angel or what???

I ended up going to Bowling Green and got to the track just a few laps before Stevie went onto the track. Barely made it, but I was sooooo glad to see my boys! We went to the park on Saturday and it was soooo HOT. Buzzy still isn't 100% from his mono. We rested on Sunday. We all needed it. Today is Aunty K's birthday!!! She's FINALLY 27! Old fart!

What did you do on the 4th?

We went to Heavy & Regina's . I'm not sure who Steve went to play with. He played video games with Austin and had water wars with Austin, so I think he went to play with Austin!! It was just a small get together-us, them and the Clardy's. They have a son named Thad and they call him Thad. Buzzy was amazed. He told them that he is Buzzy, but his name is Steven Thad too!

Steve dunked Buzzy as soon as he got in the pool, so he was done playing with Daddy for the Day. He stood on the side and watched the water wars. He liked playing on the ladder and squirtting from the side of the pool. He would swim with me, but he would panick from time to time and have to get back out. By the end of the day, he was sitting on the ladder all by himself. He will get better. He just does not like getting his head wet!!

Firework time brought the silliness out in Stevie. He had to model Austin's hat and sunglasses. We went up to the hill on the other side of the lake. My cousin Carla had invited several of her friends and with our group of heathens, we had quite a crowd! Carla had a campfire and food and sparklers, and glow sticks and the little ones had a blast playing. We felt like we kind of crashed their party, but we tried to stay to ourselves! We had a great view of the fireworks and they were far enough away that the boom wasn't too bad on the ears.

Buzzy is still amazed with fireworks - that is as long as they aren't too loud! He was all about some sparklers. After the "real" fireworks, we all went back to the house for our fireworks. Buzzy was running a little fever and had a runny nose, so he watched about half of the show and decided to retire to SpongeBob. He and Mimi called it a night and headed for the couch! He had some Tylenol and went to bed. Feeling a little grouchy this morning, but he may be hungover from all the excitement from yesterday!
This is the group picture of the male heathens. The women were safe in the back of Tommy's truck. The men headed to the "front row" of the clearing for the firework display. That is (from the left) Austin, Buzzy, Stevie, Heavy, Pap, Grant, and Tommy. The women are in the truck straight behind. What a group and what a time had!!

Red Neck Country Club

You might be a redneck if.....
This is the infamous fish pond that K and Tommy have been working on for a year now. Stevie dug it for her last year about this time. Up until this spring, she had a hole in her yard with a fair amount of water in it. She was on Steve's butt until he dug it, so every time he saw her he would ask about the pond. He threatened to fill it back in if she didn't get it going. Buzzy and I went down there a couple weeks ago and they were running the wiring for it. Buzzy wanted to play in the dirt, so she promised that she would let us know when she worked on it again. She called Saturday morning to say they were laying rocks around the edges and she just knew that Buzzy would want to help. It was hot and he started out fully clothed, then went down to the shorts and shoes, then to underwear and shoes, and finally, that's right, nothing and shoes. K kept telling him to get in, but he wouldn't, so she did a flip off the side and that was it. He was in! He loved it! He played in the waterfall and squealed and told K that she was going to have to change her water, because he peed in it! Thank goodness I was already out!!

Tommy put the sprinkler out for Buzzy, and of course, he had to get out his umbrella. The kid had wet hair and NO clothes on, but he could not stand for that sprinkler water to get on his head! Just before we left a little rain cloud blew up and -while in the pond- he had to have his umbrella. You guessed it, can't get that head wet! What is it with men and their hair?

YEP!

He loves me!

This is from his 4 year old photo shoot! Brandy told me I could put this on here. She is going to be SO famous! She's already got a good start.

Buzzy went swimming in a Red Neck Swimming Pool over the weekend and I can't wait to get the pictures. It was so funny! Have a great week everyone!

TGIF

We made it! We made it through this week without threatening to file for divorce, yelling, fighting, or crying (Saturday evening doesn't count.). We are on the road to recovery! We are truly new and improving! Eventhough we are sick from our incident, we are excited about rebuilding and "improving" on what we already had going. Thanks to everyone that helped us out this week. Whether by babysitting!!!!!!!!!, moral supporting, offering to help clean up, set up, or tear down. We really appreciated the help and support we have gotten from everyone. Two VERY nice ladies from the bank showed up on Tuesday with groceries for the kitchen! That was so nice and I would have never expected that! In times like this, we truly realize how blessed we are. So many great friends, family, employees, customers, and other people that we do business with. We will never be able to express how thankful we are for each and every person that took the time to just let us know that they were thinking about us. To everyone that reads this, THANK YOU!!!

I love it when.....

I scare Steve!!! It's the best feeling in the world to actually startle him!! Everyone knows he is sooooooooooo laid back and scaring him or getting him startled is nearly impossible! We are beat. It has been go, go, go since Saturday and we are so darn tired it has gotten to the silly tired with me. Steve and I were at the new and improved office until 9:45 tonight and I had to go by Mimi's since Buzzy thinks he's moved in with them. He's going to have a sleep over with me and Steve tomorrow night. (A sleepover - at his own home. Somethings not right here.) He has been staying with them since Saturday and he loves it. I miss him at night, but he was at the office just about all day, so we ARE still seeing him, he's just sleeping at Mimi's. Anyway.......when I got home Stevie was in the shower, so I came to check email and all that fun stuff. I didn't turn the lights on or anything, just out here on the porch being quiet. When he got out of the shower, he came out on the porch and I sat quietly watching. He cupped his hands and smushed his face against the sliding door to see if my truck was in the driveway. He just stood there looking out like he was having a hard time seeing my truck so....I decided to scream! Lightening speed turn and a" Huh, what?" I have never heard "Huh,what?" I was beside myself with laughter. He didn't see the humor, which made it funnier. I know this is one of those "you just had to be there" stories, but, gosh, it was just hilarious!! He'll get me back and I won't tell anyone, because it stinks when he scares me. But it's AWESOME when I get him!! Hee hee!

Fire

Busy, Busy, Busy

Went to the Muhlenberg County Fair on Thursday. Buzzy rode with Aunt K, until she had to go do some work for the Fair and then Momma was cool again! I remember when I was little that everyone else was cool but my own parents. Now, I can see their coolness!!

He played games. We bought lots of tickets for rides and all he wanted to do was play games. He won two SpongeBob pictures, a stuffed puppy, stuffed frog and a REAL goldfish that is still living! They never lived that long for me!! He emptied his daddy's pockets. Those games are pricey!!



Friday night was race night. Steve was happy with his new motor. He qualified 7th, number six was disqualified, so Steve moved to six. The field was inverted six deep, so Steve started on the pole!!! He says he wasn't nervous, but he sweated like crazy and was just a patting on anyone that talked to him. As most everyone knows, Steve isn't a "touchy" person, so that was definately a sign of nervousness! He finished 5th. I was so excited! I videoed the race from about three stories up and after the race, I had a problem coming down the steps. My legs were shakey. I was more nervous after the race than before it started! I was sooooooo proud of him! He did GREAT!!



Saturday was Birthday central. Presents on top of presents! He had such a great birthday party! We ate good and had a great time. Uncle Gary did a great job putting all of his toys together. Buzzy and I had a nap after everyone left and when he got up, he was recharged and ready to go! He and Daddy were busy all evening. They went from one new thing to the next. Grandmother and Papa Steve got Buzzy a Pac-Man game for his TV. Daddy likes it until he gets killed. We were all three in Buzzy's room, while Buzzy played with his HotWHeels door toy and Steve played PacMan. Steve got killed and, didn't yell, but stated loudly "That just sucks!" I looked at him funny and he said "Oops!" Buzzy's toys aren't a good influence on Daddy!!

SPECIAL DELIVERY!!!!

Got a new mailbox for those big packages that Buzzy gets in the mail. The mailman likes to show up when I'm still in my gown. Not a good surprise.

Anyway...it's big enough for a small child!! HEE HEE!

Every Morning

This is what we do.