This past weekend was filled with all of the above!
Court doing her thang!
Britt and Mom doing their thang....
and everyone doing their thang....
It was alot of fun in Owings, SC and we hope to go back!
Court sang at a church last night in Woodruff, SC. OH what talent was there! It was good to see alot of the guys I used to work with!
Well, this is short and sweet...gotta work today! WHA???!
Here is the link to some of the pics I took. Realize I was trying to capture a more rustic look, but failed. They were mostly blurry, but that's how you learn!
So, Britt was feeling like baking a cake, so her and Mike decided to make Connie's Peanut Butter Cake!
WHO AM I TO SAY NO!
Soooo......
Grandma Terry has to make sure we ain't breaking any "Cake Baking" laws!
They were trying to remember if Connie make a two or a three layer cake. They decided on two...but now that's it's all said and done, we think she makes her's a 3.
Layer one!
Court and Mike take a turn in iceing, WHICH took longer than imaginable!
The finished cake...
and here is another angle...
awwww.....the chefs!
AND....
EXACTLY 45 SECONDS LATER....
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! No, I'm not kidding either.
Here is my smallish piece ...... compared to Silkers ....
We all have to say, this was the best cake ever baked by my family!
Thank you Connie for sharing your recipes with Britt. She carrys them in a 3 ringed binder encased in plastic sleeves. She treasures them...and SO DO WE!
Today, Courtney is singing at a church. Some kind of monthly get together the church people have and they wanted entertainment. I probley won't take any pictures there of Court singing, but who knows what happens between here and there!
Britt is steady exercising to lose the fina 15 lbs. to join the Air Force. She has done SOOO good and is nearly there!
Ash is doing really good in her class and has met a bunch of friends already. I put this on her wall posting on her facebook yesterday...
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I will let y'all figure that out and put the answer to it on here tomorrow. (hint..google morse translater and copy and paste the above in there!)
This past week was SOOO crazy! It was mine, Ashley and Harley's Birthdays! AND, ASHLEY CAME HOME FOR A FEW DAYS!
(I'm the one on the right, in case you couldn't tell)! BAH-HAAAAA
Anyways, picking her up at the airport was crazy enuff!
Ash is in green HIDING behind the family in front of her. I wonder if us hollering and camera flashes going off may have embarassed her? hee
Her boyfriend, Jeremy went with us!
Then we had to go out to IHOP to eat...
Then next day was MY birthday, so we all went out to eat and later, had ice cream...
This is my favorite picture taken, i think...
Saturday was our joint birthday parties! We all went out to eat at the Tadpole, then back to our house for cake and ice cream and music.
Grandma Terry was there too...she never misses out on a party!
we had PRESENTS!
Actually, we mailed Ash out her birthday box July 12th and she STILL hasn't received it on her boat yet! Maybe it will be there when she gets back next month.
Buddy made an appearance!
Art was there too!
Now, she's gone on to Yorktown, Va. to go to Visual Communication school. She has to learn MORSE CODE! I just can't imagine anything MORE boring than having to learn that!! BUT, she is excited about it. She flys back to her boat on Sept. 11th. She hopes to go to Boarding Officer school in Charleston, SC in October, which would be fanTABulous for all of us! We'll just keep our fingers crossed!!!
I have TONS more pics here if you want to see more...
AND, we are beyond happy! Recently, while on patrol on her boat, she got the opportunity to go to school for 3 weeks in Va., so, she took a weeks leave and came home for a few days! WOOOOO!
Here Court was trying to take a picture of herself....
HAAAAAAAAAAA! I love that picture! hee
After her schooling, she has to fly directly back to her boat. Sad, but true, but we are sooo happy for the few days we get with her. She's like a cyclone really, so a few days home for her, is like 2 weeks for normal people! ha
I'll have loads more photo's today to add. I'm still not fully functional!
While we were gone to pick up Ash, Mike and Britt stayed behind. Britt helped Mike do some things, including, puttingsome guitar holders up on Court/Ash's room and hung Courtney's guitars...
and her other stringed instruments...
We think it looks great and Court was SOOO thrilled!
It was so cute when Ash got out of the truck. Mike and Britt was sitting outside waiting for us with the dogs. Boomer went straight up to her and was SOOO happy to see her. She kneeled down and they just slobbered all over each other. She sure does love him and he loves her!
Today, I have GOT to go to the grocery store and then I have a guitar lesson this afternoon. Dad took my spot yesterday and I'm sure Wayne (my teacher) was just so dissappointed it wasn't me. BUT, I'll bedazzzle him with my madd skills today! HA...he actually needs to take a valium before I get there so I don't rattle his nerves so badly! HAAAAAAAAAA!! He did tell me one time that I can make sounds come out my guitar he ain't ever heard before! That's at least SOMETHING!
Gotta get to Wal-mart and get some groceries!
You know life is good when all your chickens are home under one roof and you're fixing to go to Wal-Mart! ; )
I awoke this morning with an email on my phone from ASHLEY!!!! She said they had swim call on her boat yesterday! Her friend on her boat took a pic of her and Ash and emailed it to her family and Ash, who forwarded it to me...here is part of that email...
ME and Ashley........
They call this "Still Beach"...after all of this a day of swimming, they fished then the Chiefs cooked us dinner then they had a display of desserts!
AWWW....don't they look just beautiful!!!
AND....I have MORE great news! She is going to school in Virginia starting Aug. 23rd for two weeks! Some kind of communications school. MY BABY IS COMING HOME!
This is just the best news I've heard in a long time and I plan on enjoying whatever time I get to spend with her with a huge smile on my face and my nose in her hair (it smells like her!! ha)!!
That's it for the moment.
OH...for Darrell in California, Harold is doing pretty good. Caren has been keeping us all up to date on Facebook, which I know you have too. We're just all anxiously awaiting news on how the cat scan went last week. I guess they're all going to church today, so I'll get more info this afternoon.
21 years ago, the clouds parted and Ashley decended on this earth with a huge, loud, giggly, blonde thud and thus begins her story............
She looks so much like me, i may need to spank her when she comes home! BAH-HAAAA!
Long time, no decent post! ha!! But that's the truth. I worked a ton last week and when I do that, there isn't time for much else. I even got behind on my news watching...so I NEARLY missed Lindsey Lohan's mother's interview....(eyes rolling). I also think it was incredible that 3 tweens bought tickets and flew to Nashville to go to Dollywood....WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS! I saw where their parents were upset with the airlines...uh....where were THEY at?
Court has practice today for a show she'll be doing in Hiawassee, Ga. this October. She'll be performing with a group she used to perform with years ago, and she is SOOOOO excited! She has always loved performing with them. They're sort of like a show you would see in Dollywood or someplace, really fun to be in and to watch!
I don't have any more new photo/videos to share, unless you count the pic i took of Grandma Terry's meatloaf she made the other day. OOOOO.MMMMMM.GGGGEEEEEEEEE, was it the best ever and I deemed it photo-worthy! Maybe I will put it on here, I gotta see what it looks like on here, I don't want none of ya'll trying to eat your monitors! BAH-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Quick update to add one more video....here is Court singing my favorite fast song she does, "Two More Bottles of Wine".
I love that song! And the band was fantastic too!
Well, I'm off work the next couple of days, thank goodness, so now it's time to CLEAN MY HOUSE!
Everyone is doing great...Mike's dad is just about back to normal again and he feels much MUCH better. G'ma Terry is doing pretty well too as is Mike's Mom.
As I said the other day, I would put another video on here and I am...just a day or two late!
Mike's Dad had a heart cath the other day and he has a few tiny blockages, but not worth fixin', which was wonderful news!
It WAS discovered tho that his heart rate is low...REALLY low...like, around 27-40 bpm. SO, they put a pacemaker in him yesterday and it went well. He looks fantastic, and feels so much better. He said his mind seems clearer! He will finally come home today and Cujo (the dog) will be SOOOO HAPPY! ha! So will we!
I have become so spoiled with my work schedule that whenever I have to work an extra day or something, it throws me out of whack, which is what I will be by Tuesday. I normally work Friday-Sunday every other weekend, but this week, it's Friday-Monday and I am POUTING. OH well, the weather is supposed to be so hot this weekend, I might as well work. HOPEFULLY we won't have alot of patients and our weekend will be smooth.
Here is the video. It's of Courtney singing Vince Gill's "Pocket Full of Gold". She performed this in Hiawassee, Ga last week with a really great band.
We're back enjoying the Carolina heat...which seems to be hotter than the Hiawassee heat. maybe that's because we don't have a gorgeous clear lake to stick our feet in, or tons of oak trees, maples and pines to walk under. sigh............I really REALLY enjoyed it there and I want to go back.
SOOoooo...today Hiawassee will be just a memory. Mike's Dad is having a heart cath this morning. I would be there too, and probley will be after I go get some blood drawn as part of my employment benefits at the hospital where I work. I would skip out on it, but doing certain things takes $$ off our health insurance premiums. This is one of them and it's the last day of the year to do it. NOTHING like procrastination. I will try to get in early so Britt and I can head to the other hospital to see how he's doing.
I have a few pics to put on here of our trip...these are just a couple of my favorites...
This is one that I took and I love it. ***DAD***- with your new computer and awesome software, can you get this pic and take the microphone out??? PUL-EEEEZE?
Dad always does an awesome job of photo editing. I don't so much because I don't usually have a need to! BAHHHHHHHH-HAAAAAAA!!! Anyways, there wasn't anywhere I could go to get away from all the mics on that stage, so I figured they'd have to be edited out.
I love this next pic because Britt wasn't posing, it shows off her weight loss and she looks so grown up here...
I love this next pic because Court sought me out of the crowd to look at me!
Court did alot of singing and i do have video, of which i'm getting her youtube acct. straightened out now, but here is one of my 3 fav. songs she did. It's, "I'm Not Lisa"...
I LOVE that song. She did more, and I'll include them on here tomorrow after I work on converting .vob to .wmv to then put on youtube.
I'll keep ya'll posted on how Mike's dad is...he isn't nervous at all, Silker is enough for everyone!
Grandma Terry is staying at Will's house, Darrell, in case you are wondering.
We are a family of 5 humans and 4 dogs. We're slowly spreading out, with Ashley in the Coast Guard stationed in Seattle, WA on the USCG cutter Midgett, Britt is expecting our first grandchild in July, and Courtney is singing and performing all over the place and just started her first year of college. She's going for Radiology Tech.
Hope you enjoy our family blog!
