Happy Birthday Brian AND Congrats to David!!!

Happy Birthday to my husband, Brian! You're 15 years older than you were when we got married....and 18 years older than when we first met! wow! How can that be??? I hope you have a great day today and wish you many more b-days! I love you!

Congrats to my Olympian, David! He's been in Fort Leonard Wood w/Brian today at the Jr. Olympic State track meet and just won 1st place!!! Great job!!! If he's 1st in our region then he'll advance to Nationals again. We'll keep you posted!

Oh Where, Oh Where is my Stimulus Check???

According to the IRS website we should have gotten our Stimulus check electronically deposited as of May 16.....Today is May 30 and we not seen hide nor hair of it!!! So, I've decided to write a song to the tune of Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone to humor myself as I wait.

Oh Where, Oh where is my Stimulus check
Oh where, oh where can it be
I've been waiting for months
and it's taking so long
How long, how long will it be?

Oh where, oh where is my Stimulus check
oh where, oh where can it be
I've checked my bank account
for the past 14 days
I think Uncle Sam forgot about me!

Memorial Weekend

We had our Sunday School over last night for a backyard BBQ! We had a lot of fun, good visiting, and of course, food. Two of our newer couples were able to come which is always exciting. The kids jumped on the trampoline or played on the swing set while the growns up all sat in chairs and visited. Emalee just crawled or pushed her shopping cart all over the back yard.
After crawling all over the yard Emee was so filthy that I gave her a bath with Laura Carlton before they went home. Laura's mommy is pregnant and tired, so I thought I'd save her the trouble of bending over the tub for at least one night this week.
This morning we went to church. Kara and I were able to sing the duet we've been working on for a few weeks now. I think it went really well. We made it through w/o crying, but I don't think there was a dry eye in the congregation. Our church recorded it. I'm not sure if it will be on the web site or not, but if so, you can go to www.jabc.net and click on today's sermon to hear us sing. It'll probably take a few days for it to be loaded to the site.
Tonight we're going to a BBQ for David's SS class. It's a farewell to the kids that are moving up to the youth group...David's one of those! I love BBQ's, but I am getting tired of hamburgers and hotdogs. I'll have to cook something complete different for dinner tomorrow.
Well, that's all for now!

Turtles Turn Up On Tuesday!!!

When I was a little girl we had a book in our home (I think it was Laura's) titled, Turtles Turn Up On Tuesday. We all loved that book. If I remember correctly, it was about a brother and sister that had a pet turtle that got lost in the house and couldn't be found anywhere! As you can guess, the turtle was found on a Tuesday.

Well, my children were in the backyard playing yesterday(Tuesday) and came running in the house telling me that they are our neighbor children had "found a HUGE turtle" and that I needed to come see it. I was busy cooking dinner so I decided to look out the window. They were right...it was HUGE! The biggest backyard turtle that I'd ever seen!

I took the camera out to capture the moment. Jacob and our neighbor, Hayden, posed for a picture with the turtle.

I'm not sure where the turtle is now, but next Tuesday I'm going outside to look for it!