He sure is brave!

I honestly have to say that Gary is the bravest person I know. Why do I think this? Because he is teaching me to play golf! So, he must be brave.
We have been going to the driving range a couple of times a week, and I have gotten to where I hit almost every ball I swing at. And, Gary told me that I no longer look like I am swinging a baseball bat!
SO, after a couple of weeks of going to the driving range and "practicing" hitting a golf ball, Gary decided that it was time to take me golfing. Yesterday we went out to a local golf course around 4:30 to miss most of the traffic. Well..... I think I need to start sleeping at the driving range. I SUCK!!!!! At least I am a big enough person to admit it, but I really suck at golf.
Gary was laughing at me because I was SUPER- DUPER impressed with myself that I hit a ball over the water and didn't hit it into the water. As the day went on, I think I was getting better, but I still suck!
So, if anyone has any "pointers" for me on how to become a better golfer, please share. Gary says that I am improving.... glad he thinks so!

We FINALLY did it...

We finally agreed on and bought a new vehicle. We got a 2008 Dodge Nitro SLT 4x4... and I LOVE it! I know I am really going to miss my little car, but our next door neighbor is buying it, so he told me if I ever wanted to drive it, I could. I am so spoiled!

I told Gary that this is the first vehicle I have owned that has not been black or white, and it is the first one to have 4 doors. He said he was glad that his little girl is "growing up". So, I stuck my tongue out at him. ; )

Here is a picture of the new car... hope all are well!

What the heck?

They are moving a house in across the street from us. A HOUSE! They are MOVING a house! Not a trailer, not a double wide, a HOUSE... Now, some of you might have seen this done before or on tv, but let me tell you, it is the strangest thing in the world to look out your front window and see a house sitting up on a trailer being moved.
They actually started moving the house last week. It took them 4 hours to move it 17 miles. Then it sat on our gravel road from Thursday morning until Monday morning. What a pain in the butt! So, they moved it down to the lot that they are putting it on on Monday... but it is still sitting in the middle of the road. People are having to drive in part of our yard in order to get around it.... needless to say Gary and I are not happy about that. Here are a few pics of the house once they got it moved across the street. The guy moving it says they have to turn it 180* to put it on the foundation....what the??? Glad I don't have his job.

Here is what we look at when we walk out of our front door...


Here is a little closer pic, see how UGLY the house is?
And, here is the view from the road, our property is on the left side of the pic...
There is just enough room for about 3/4 of a car to pass the house without getting into our grass. But, you can see our neighbors cute little wiener dogs.
So, hopefully when I get home tonight there will no longer be a house in the middle of the road.

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Haven't posted anything in a while, not a lot going on right now. Here are a few pics Ryan took of a storm that went over a couple of weeks ago. There were micro burst tornado activity with this storm, we were in the front yard and watched the clouds rolling.



And here is a cool pic he got of a hummingbird at one of our 6 feeders. Gary is obsessed with the birds this year. 6 hummingbird feeders, 3 finch feeders, and a suit block. We have birds EVERYWHERE!!!
We have been doing LOTS of yard work, I put in 11 box woods this past weekend around the house, and hope to get the other side done this weekend. We have also been dropping lots of trees in the "woods" next to our house. Gary wants to get it thinned out enough to plant grass and mow.... I don't think we need to cut all those trees down, but it does look nice all thinned out.

Our garden and tomato plants are going NUTS! But, we only have 1 red tomato and 1 zucchini ready to be picked. All the rain this spring is really messing with the tomato plants, but hopefully they will continue to ripen. I will try to post again soon.

And the storm moves on...

We had some pretty scary weather last night, but nothing bad happened. Our phones started ringing about 12:30, and there were a couple of tornado's spotted around the lake. So, we loaded up the dogs and went to my parents house. We finally got home about 2:30 this morning.

Things are great here, the flowers are blooming, the grass is growing- like crazy! I think Gary mows 2 or 3 times a week!

He has also been racing, here are a few pics from one of the races.


Here he is sitting on the starting line,


And, they are OFF!!!


Hope all are well.

I've been slacking!

Well, it has been a while since I last posted. Not a lot has been changing. Gary has started his races. We have been busy around the house, cleaning up the woods and burning, washing decks and getting ready to stain them.
We did have a bad week last week. Wednesday night we discovered that half of Ryan's Adderall were missing. I had the script filled on Tuesday, then, all of our quarters out of our change jars were also missing. There are only a few people who know where we keep the key to the house and that would feel safe enough walking into our house with the dogs in there, so we knew who had taken them. Needless to say, the neighbor girl who house/dog sits when we are gone was put in cuffs and into the back of the cop car. It was a long, stressfull night, but hopefully it will all be straightened out soon.
Still car shopping, we sold the van, so now we just have to find the vehicle we want, don't know if we will ever agree on one though.
We are still hoping to get up to Illinois soon, but it seems like every weekend that we might be able to go, something comes up.
Ryan will be out of school next Tuesday, I turn 29 on Monday! Boy, next year will be tough! The dogs are doing great, constant entertainment.
Hope all are well, and hope to see you all soon.

Row Row Row your boat...

Holy moly! We have been getting LOTS of rain lately, and more is on the way Wednesday, Thursday and Friday! So, Gary and I have started to build an arc! Just kidding. But, Ryan and I did walk down to the creek the other day to see if the water fall was still flowing, and it is! I took my shoes and socks off, crossed the creek and had to climb up the hill to see the top of the fall. It is so pretty!
You don't get the full effect of the fall, but it is probably 15-18 feet from where the water comes out of the rock to the creek below.