This sucks!

Anybody else tired of this heat we've been having? I am so ready for it to cool down, but it don't look like that's happening any time soon. I hardly got any sleep last night because it was so hot. Our air conditioner keeps blowing our breaker, so it stays on for like 10 minutes and then that's it! Today I've tried everything to see what might be causing it. I turned off all the ceiling fans, lights ect. Still it shuts off! It sucks so bad! I want my air!!!!! I can handle the hotness during the day, but at night who wants to go to bed all sticky.

Our Weekend

This weekend Alton was off, and the weather was BEAUTIFUL for once. Saturday we were outside almost all day. Although Alton was off from his job, all he did was work. He emptied out our "dumpster trailer" and separated all the metal from the wood ect. Pretty boring for Dylan and me, but on Sunday we went to our friends daughter's 2nd birthday party. They had a petting zoo kind of thing there that was pretty neat for the kids. They had goats, sheep, a cow, a donkey, a llama, and a pony they could ride on. They also has a little pen set up that had two pot belly baby pigs, two puppies, and a kitten in it. Dylan was fascinated by this the most. I could hardly get him away from it to see the other animals. All he wanted to do was pet the puppies. And of course I forgot to take my camera! I was so bummed! I thought I put in it my bag, but no, it was on the counter top when we got home! So we had a great weekend! Now we are in store for more heat and humidity. Oh joy!

Hot

Nothing much has been going on here. Just trying to put up with the heat. It's supposed to get close to 100 degrees here tomorrow. YUCK! Today I was close to setting in Dylan's little pool. He didn't seem interested in being in it. I sure was! And tonight we are going to a bon fire of all things. Needless to say I'm sure we won't be sitting too close to it! LOL It will be a good time though.

A Bad Day!

I don't know what had gotten into Dylan yesterday, but he sure made my day awful! It started out that he was just getting into everything and anything that he could, but KNEW he wasn't supposed to. Then if I got a phone call he would really start in because he knew I couldn't discipline him like I would if I wasn't talking on the phone. He also has developed a new fascination with spitting. I don't know if he saw somebody else do it or what. But he keeps doing it in the house! So gross!! And he's also gotten into throwing things at ME. So I got hit in the chin with a metal tractor too. I'll probably have a nice bruise from that. Then to top it all off....I went upstairs to put a basket of clothes away....Come back down and he had went in the refridgerator got the carton of eggs and bombed our carpet and the dog with them. There were probably six eggs in there. So needless to say that was a huge mess to clean up. The worst part was that out steam cleaner was in the attic of the garage and I couldn't get it down! I am telling you if I have another day like that today I will be seen running down the street far far away from this house!

4th of July

Hope everybody had a nice weekend. We did. Sunday was my sister's birthday so we celebrated with her at the campground where they were camping. Then after cake and ice cream we went to watch the fireworks that the campground put on. It so awesome to watch them there, because the place where we sit it so perfect! It's almost like the ashes would fall on us they are so close! I love it! Alton had to work a full day Monday and then yesterday we took Dylan to Cook's Dairy. It was his first time being there. He saw some cows and we got some ice cream. He didn't care a bit about the ice cream. He was too busy running around the pavilion that was there and going down the slide that they had. He never ate one bite of his ice cream! Then after that we took him to the park to play for a while. There we saw some ducks. Then we came home for a while had dinner and then went to our neighbors house to sit by the fire and watch their fireworks. We had a nice time!

Kidless

Today I took Dylan to the campground to camp with my parents for a couple days. He will have a blast I'm sure, but it was hard to leave him there. My Mom could tell I was having a hard time so she was like you don't have to leave him if you don't want, but I knew he wanted to stay and I am looking forward to the break. Tomorrow I am going to go shopping for some new clothes. It will be nice to be able to go alone and not worry about Dylan opening the dressing room door when I'm in my underwear! LOL Tonight Alton and I are going to go out for a "quiet" dinner alone. It will be very relaxing I'm sure!

Happy Birthday to me

Yesterday was my birthday. I'm now only one year from 30. It don't feel any different. LOL I had a really nice family get together to celebrate. My Mom made a cake for me. Yellow with chocolate frosting. My favorite! I got a lot of nice gifts also. Mostly money which I plan to spend on some summer clothes and a couple cushions for our outside swing. It was a good day!

Heat on the way

I just heard the weather report and they are saying that the 90 degree weather and humidity is on it's way. I am dreading it! It has been sooooo nice this week with 80 degrees and low humidity with lots of sunshine. I guess it may last all next week. Let's hope not! Alton and I had planned on doing a lot of work outside this weekend since he has the whole weekend off, but if it's that miserably hot, we won't want to do anything we've planned.

Yesterday was my Grandma's 77th birthday. A group of our family got together and all pitched in for her to get glass block windows put in her basement windows. My Aunt had some loose glass blocks from a previous project she had done and put one in a birthday bag and gave it to her. At first she wasn't sure of what it was, but then her mouth dropped open when it registered and she was sooooo surprised! They are getting new siding put on the house, so this will go along really nice with it. She's been saying she's wanted the windows for quite a long time, because theirs are so old. We had a really nice time.

Our Weekend

We had a pretty eventful weekend. Saturday we went to a bowling benefit for a lady who needs a heart transplant. We bowled three games and had some pizza. Itw as fun. We hadn't been bowling in a long time. It was nice to do somethign different. They ended up raising around $13,000 for the lady. Sunday we worked in the yard until about 5pm and then Alton's side of the family came over to celebrate the three June birthdays in the family and Father's Day. It was nice. Then once the in-laws left we had a fire. So it was a pretty relaxing weekend!

6-9-06

I haven't made a post in a while, so I thought I'd just say hi! Not a whole lot has been happening here with us.

An eventful week

We've had a few cool things happen to us this week. First, Dylan finally learned how to make his Power Wheels Jeep move. Santa brought it for him this past Christmas and he had been scared when it moved. Not anymore. He takes off. Now he just needs to learn how to steer it. It's so funny....He puts his foot on the "gas pedal" and starts going, but he turns his head around to look behind him instead of in front to see where he's going. He's ran into the fence, the deck, and a tree! Secondly, my sister-in-law Laurel and nephew Alex came from South Carolina for a visit this week. Dylan had tons of fun playing with his cousin. And he loved has his Aunt Laurel's attention all the time. So we spent the day with them and Grandma Hayes. Once we came home from there I was changing Dylan's diaper and he said he wanted to pee pee on the potty. It's been a feat trying to get him to even sit on the toilet. So I said ok let's go which he usually says no, but this time he went right into the bathroom and waited for me to put him on the toilet. I don't know if it was because he knew his cousin Alex goes on the big potty or what, but he sat and tried to go. Nothing ever happened, but at least we've crossed one hurdle on the road to potty training! LOL

Another gray day

Once again today we had no sunshine. I am so tired of the cloudy, cold and rainy days we've been having. Looks like tomorrow it's going to be the same! On top of that today Dylan and I woke up with a nasty cold. Dylan seems to be feeling better now that he's had his nap, but not me. I even had a nap too. Tomorrow my Dad has to go in for an outpatient surgery on his foot. He was at the foot doctor earlier in the week to have the stitches taken out from the previous surgery and they said he has a piece of skin that is dead and needs to be removed. So it's nothing serious. I think tonight will be a pizza night for dinner since I don't feel good. I know it's not healthy, but it's fast and easy.

A Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mother's who read this blog! I had a great day for my second Mother's Day! It started off with breakfast from McDonald's...my favorite! Dylan also got me a beautiful plant. It looks exotic. It's called a Sun Star and it has bright orange blossoms on it. Very pretty. Then we went to Alton's parents for lunch and then to my parents for a little while. And now we are back home enjoying the rest of the evening....even though it's storming!

Not moving

Well, it don't look like we'll be moving to the house with three acres. The owner of the property called Alton yesterday and decided that he don't want to buy our house now. I don't understand it really. The guy is a supposed millionaire who owns many rental properties. I guess when you buy a property and it's not your primary residence you have to put so much money down and then also pay closing costs. Well, he tells Alton that it would cost him around $26,000 to buy ours so he don't want to do that. Now you can't tell me he didn't already know this. Instead he acts all interested in our house and gets our hopes up for nothing. And you'd think that $26,000 would be a drop in the bucket for a millionaire. So to me I don't think I'd want to do business with him at all anymore. So I guess it wasn't meant to be!

The Garbage Man

Dylan has developed an obsession with the "Gasha Man" A.K.A the garbage man. LOL Today was our garbage day and Dylan was right at the door watching when he came down our street this morning. Then after he is gone and out of sight Dylan has a fit that he can't see him anymore and wants to go look for him. Trying to explain that the garbage man is done with our street and will be back next week is nearly impossible when it comes to a two year old. So he yells and stomps and cries until he finally moves on to something else. I don't know what it is about it that he likes so much. Maybe it's the arm that lifts the can up or just the big truck. It's the funniest thing though. Since you can see the main road from our backyard he's always looking for the Gasha Man when he hears a loud truck go by. Other then that we've had a pretty uneventful day today.

The weekend

Our Anniversary dinner at Olive Garden was really nice! We did have to wait almost 45 minutes to get a table though, but what do you expect on a Saturday night right? The food was excellent! Also over the weekend we found out that we may be moving in the near future. It's a very long story so I'll try to stick tot he main details. Alton has done this man's plumbing for a while, and he said if you ever decide to sell your house let me know first, so he did. The man is also interested in buying our house because he has many rental properties in Pontiac. So he came to look at our house yesterday and it looks like we may be able to buy his! We still have to find out what the payments will be and if we can afford them. The place is on three acres and is in Groveland Township. Dylan would go to Clarkston schools and we wouldn't be living in Pontiac anymore!!! It would be so good. The only thing is that the house needs some major updating, but it would be so worth it to be living back in the country and away from the city! So I'll keep you posted on what happens, but keep your fingers crossed for us!!

Fifth Anniversary

Alton and I made it to our five year anniversary yesterday! Yay! Hard to believe it's been that long already. We're going to celebrate tonight by going out for a peaceful, kidless dinner, and hopefully we'll get a weekend away next weekend. I think since we like Olive Garden so much that's where we will go.

My dad had his foot stitched up this morning and he should be coming home this afternoon. He'll be so happy to get home! He's been bored out of his mind in the hospital.

The man who lives behind us has a Lilac tree in his yard, and that one tree is smelling up our backyard so nice!! I love it! Last night I sat on our swing which is right in front of the tree and just soaked up all the scent! Then once it got dark I went a cut a few bunches and put them in the house, so now the whole house smells like lilac. Alton kept calling me the lilac steeler. I'm sure the man won't even notice. He don't ever do anything with it anyhow.

Dad's surgery

Yesterday my Dad had surgery on his heel and it went really good. They wanted to get all of the infection out of his bone so that it won't keep coming back every few weeks. The doctor said it wasn't as bad as he first thought, but there was definitely an infection there. So he had to stay in the hospital today and probably tomorrow. I guess he's got to learn to use crutches. That ought to be fun. Anyway, and least he's passed that now!

Feeling better

I made my second Avon order yesterday and I am feeling much better about the whole thing now. I found out that I am only $8 away from making my $500 goal for the first three campaigns! That made my day! I'm pretty sure I can get at least an $8 order next time. Tomorrow will be the one year anniversary that my Brother-in-law Stephen was killed in Iraq. I can't believe that time has went by so fast. It seems like just yesterday we were in New York for the funeral. Also Monday marks the one year anniversary of the death of our next door neighbor. That one flew by too. I was talking to his widow today and when she told me that I was shocked!

Avon woes

Today is the last day to get the orders in for my second Avon campaign, and it sure isn't half as good as my first. I guess I thought that I would get the same amount of orders as last time, but I don't even have half. For the next campaign I really need to hang some books on some mailboxes and try to generate new customers. So yes it is mainly MY fault that I don't have many orders. My goal right now is to have at least $500 in sales in my first three campaigns, because then I get acknowledged at the next sales meeting and receive a pin for reaching that goal. I'm pretty confident that I will make that goal, but we'll see. I may come up just short. Other then that there's not a whole lot happening here.