Weekend Recap!

WARNING: LOTS AND LOTS OF PICTURES WITH CAPTIONS! ENTER AT OWN RISK!

I sure hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July! I sure did and I know you want to hear about it. We had my some bloggy friends who are real life friends and their families over for a BBQ.
I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.


Here I am striking a pose. Notice how NOT tired and greasy I am! Yeah, I'm setting myself up for later! LOL.
Here's my simple table setting.
Here are us ladies. Me, Kathy from Blessed Beyond Imagination and Debra from Clothed with Scarlet. Don't we look sweet?
It was HOT but we did manage to play some horse shoes, throw some tomahawks and play croquet. Here they are seeking refuge in the shade.
We then came in to cool off and eat. We LET it rain for a little while, because we knew it would cool off a LITTLE and be done with before nightfall.

It stopped raining and so we then walked over to the beach. I thought this guy might be posing for some magazine so I figured I better take his picture because he might be famous but upon closer inspection I realized it was just Debra's husband. LOL. Cool picture though huh? Yeah I got mad picture skills! LOL. Oh I crack myself up!
Here are the "boys" doing some fishing. My hunk is on the right, Debra's in the middle, Kathy's is on the left and my 2 youngest were doing their best fish calls.
Meanwhile the older kids acted as shark bait. Just kidding. They were having a great time and the water was actually quite clear.

Remember I mentioned earlier how not tired I was, well right about here I started to look tired, greasy and from this picture a bit psychotic. But we still had more to do! And this was 1 of about 30 pictures Kathy and I took trying to look cute. But we finally gave up and here you have it!
We walked back home, ate a bit more and then lit off some Wally World specials, all the while becoming personal blood banks for the mosquitoes, which finally drove us inside.
But that didn't slow us down, oh no. We whipped out the guitars and yes that's Josh playing my daughters pink guitar. He actually played us the song he wrote for his Mom while she was in the hospital. Then my husband grabbed his guitar, my daughter grabbed my son's guitar, we handed Jay some bongos and we had a little praise and worship session. A perfect ending to a perfect day!
I then crashed hard on my bed and slept in until 8 o'clock the next morning!
I hope you all enjoyed my little flash back. Now we are having our missionary friends and their family over today and we get to do it all over again! LOL. I'm already tired just thinking about it!
BIG HUGS!!

God Bless America!

I hope you all have a safe and wonderful 4th of July!

Friday Funnies

Oh yeah! I'm loving Friday's. You all had some seriously funny posts last week. Oh how I love to laugh and I'm so glad you all never let me down. So if you got something to share this week, go post about and come back and link it up.

I haven't done a video for a while so this week my funny is from a funny comedian Brian Regan. I was watching this video and thinking how we all know a person that does this. You will have this person come to your mind immediately like I did. Enjoy!

Happy Friday Everyone!

Does this computer make me look fat?

Is that not the catchiest title ever? LOL. Yeah I thought that up all by myself and at 6:00 in the morning too. Helps to have a half a cup of coffee in ya!

Well we finally did it. We bought a new computer. Thank you all for your input on a prior post. I tell you what, and don't take this as bragging, but this thing is a Mack Daddy. I can say I'm not bragging because we've had the same computer for 7 years and the last 4 it was on crutches! LOL. We ended up getting a Gateway. I won't bore you with all the details but it is powerful. It will now not take me 1 1/2 hours to upload a 3 min. video, it will now let me see my whole blog at the same time, it will now let us upload our video from out video camera and edit it on the computer and much much more. I'm so excited. We went with the 23 " screen and that's pretty much where my clever title came from. It's so cool to have a screen so big you can see EVERYTHING on the page at the same time. It even seconds as a TV and has a built in tuner. Not that we watch TV, but it's nice to know we could if we really wanted to! And we couldn't believe how much you get now for the price. Things have gone down so much. So it only cost an arm and not a leg. So we're pretty excited about that.

My husband spent most of last night trying to get the computer up and running. The conversation went something like this.

Me: "How's it going?"

Him: "Slow."

Me:" Uh, huh.....get the internet up yet?" (You know I have to blog tomorrow!)

Him:" I've been trying to get the printer hardware to load and it won't."

Me:" Uh, huh......but what about the internet?"

Him:" So I gave up on that and now I'm making the back up disk that's taking forever."

Me:" Uh, huh.....sooooo the IN-TER-NET is done?"

Him:"I should have started this earlier."

Me:"Uh, huh... but you're going to finish before you go to bed right?" (Knowing he has to get up at 5:00am.)

Him:" Maybe"

Me:"Okay, I'm going to bed." *sigh* (Maybe I can uses my neighbors computer tomorrow morning.)(Nah, that's way to early.)(*tossing and turning*)

Husband comes in." Got the internet up!"

Me:" Oh that's good. I wasn't really worried about it." *doing happy dance in bed*

Yup, I'm addicted to blogging!!

We'll I just thought I'd share my exciting news because I know you want to know!!

LOVE YA!

I say it every year!

Christmas will be here and gone before we know it and I'll have been to busy to enjoy it!

Ask my husband I say that every year at this time and it is always so true. But this year I'm planning ahead. I love Christmas. I love everything about it. And yes I have a tendency to get caught up in the decorating and the parties but that's why I'm starting now. I want to have it all thought out and prepared way before it's time so I can completely reflect on the true meaning, which is of course the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
So what am I doing? I'm grabbing ALL my Christmas books and setting out a game plan.
I get happy just looking at these books. Hi, my name is Kim and I'm addicted to Gooseberry Patch Christmas books.
Phew! Confession is good, now I can think straight!

With these books I will plan the things I want to make, my menu for our annual Christmas party, gifts and who's getting them? Have you been naughty or nice? LOL. It just makes for a clearer head later to start doing it now. I even want to get my shopping done WAY before AND wrapped!
Yup, I know I'm an ambitious little booger but I'm finally going to act on what I say every year. We'll just incorporate homeschooling into it all, somehow! It'll be fun.
How about you? Do you get started early or do you wait last minute to do everything? Is this post scary to you because you can't even think about Christmas right now? LOL.
These are my thoughts whether I like it or not! Hee! Hee!
Now it's time to get busy!!
BIG HUGS!!
Oh and did you want a peek inside that big piece of luggage with all the Christmas stuff shoved in it that I mentioned on Monday's post? If you don't then you may exit this page immediately. If you do then stick around.
This thing is stuffed and what you see there is just the first layer! It has all kinds of neat treasures in there and I'll be sorting through it all today!