Week in Review: 5/17

Monday, May 17th:  Jared and I went to Shipshewana for the afternoon.  The main reason that we went was to find something for Mark for his birthday.  Last year we bought him a ball made out of barbed wire to put in the flower beds.  It sounds really strange, but it is actually a unique decoration and he really liked it.  We had also bought another barbed wire thing to hang on the fence.  We went back to the same store in hopes we could find something similar.  We didn't find anything new made from the barbed wire, but we did find a neat trellis that was rusted and had a similar style.  We also went to the cheese place and a couple of other places.   


Tuesday, May 18th:  C.E. Meeting


Wednesday, May 19th:  After work, Jared and I went to Kohl's since we had a 30% off coupon and I found a new pair of Capris, which I really love!  Tongiht was our last night of WOL for the year.  It is hard to believe that this WOL has come and gone already!  We still have a end of year party that we are planning for June, but all of the regular club nights are done now.  


Thursday, May 20th: Worship team practice


Friday, May 21st: Today we had a pretty bad storm....thankfully not much wind, but it poured down rain so hard I could barely see to drive home.  Mark even drove through quite a bit of hail on the way home.  It cleared up for a while and we did a bit of work in the yard and then another storm came through later on. 


Saturday, May 22nd:  Mark, Jared, Tucker, and I participated in a walk for Ribbon of Hope at Island Park in the morning.  Several people from McCoy went too including the Jordans.  Veronica, Tucker and I walked together and we were some of the last ones done.  They had a nice path marked out for us to walk....around the island and down the river walk and back around the YMCA.  After we were done with the walk Shawn paid for our lunch at McDs.  The weather wasn't very nice in the morning, in fact, it misted through much of our walking time.  Thankfully, later in the day the weather turned very nice, which was perfect since that evening Jared went to the Northridge prom with Sarah Griffin.  I went to drop him off and of course we took several photos.  



Sunday, May 23rd: Worship Team at church then in the afternoon, we opened up the pool.  It is going to be a while before it is warm enough to swim, but today was our first hot day, (high 80s) and it is supposed to be that warm all week so it may warm up sooner than we think!  That evening, Jared & Nicole had their end of year RUSH party at the Hanson's. 

Week in Review 5/9

May 9th- Mothers Day- Spent the day at Mom & Dad's house.  Grandma, Kim and Kassie were also there and Mom and I went with Kim to see her new apartment since she and Joe have split up. :( 


May 10th- Went to the dentist to have my very first root canal.  YUCK!!!  Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, but it was terribly uncomfortable keeping my mouth open that long.  
Tucker had an appointment with Amanda that afternoon, but since Adam is done with school and had Monday's off he took Tucker to get his hair cut.  


May 11th- Took that van to Naquins for an oil change and to have them fix the driver's side window since for some reason on Sunday it stopped going down! 


May 12th- Birthday!- Since we had WOL, we didn't do anything to celebrate our birthdays on Wednesday.  It was so nice to see how many birthday wishes that I received on Facebook!  I have no idea how many, but it was A LOT!!


May 14th-  Mom's birthday:  We called her and all sang Happy Birthday to her!  For dinner we all went to Ryan's for our belated birthday dinner. 


May 15th- Worked in the yard some...planting flowers and cleaning up flower beds.  In the afternoon we walked over to the fire station since they were having an open house and then Jared had a church softball game in the evening.  {They lost!}


May 16th- Mark and Linda came up for dinner and we all went to Lintons in the afternoon.   Jared and Nicole had the RUSH senior banquet that evening and the Jordan's came to pick them up and then came back and joined us for dinner that evening.  We had hamburgers, Griller and sausages on the grill!  
Here are a couple of photos that Veronica took of Tucker that evening:





And a couple of pics of our flowers that she also took:

Blogging Again???

Wow, what a long time it has been since I last wrote on my blog...I am truly a blogging failure! LOL!  Something told me today to go and look at my blog even though I hadn't been here in such a long, long time.  I really do enjoy reading all of my past posts and really don't care if anyone else ever reads what I wrote.  Nothing in my life is that interesting that someone would want to read my blog on a regular basis anyway.  So I am going to try something different.  I am going to see how it works for me to use my blog in a different way.  As more of a calendar of events.  Just something I can look back on and say..."Oh Yeah, I remember when we did that!" If I feel like writing more details about the even, then great...if not, I am going to at least try to leave a list of things that we have done in the past week.  Better than nothing, right??  

Since it has been so, so long since I last posted I thought that I would post a photo from Facebook that shows a quick overview of what went on in my life during 2009.  

I would say this about sums it up for 2009! 
1. We are currently hosting an exchange daughter through Cetusa from South Korea...GaRam (Nicole) Song, but she will be leaving on June 7th. 
2. A photo with Jill when we went to Chicago for the day for the Cetusa Chicago trip. Nov. 2009
3. Mark and I chaperoned a goup of 90+ foreign exchange students for a week in Florida in April 2009. Here we are pictured with the other chaperones.  
4. Tigger & I at Animal Kingdom!!  (Also had my photo taken with Pooh and Eeyore.)
5. WOL Kick Off party, August 2009.
6. Another photo from Florida....Hollywood Studios!   
7. My Tucker! 
8. Jill's adoration of Adam. LOL!  The photo was taken after Jill & Jared's performance in Footloose in August 2009.
9.  Teens' Involved at WOL Camp, Schroon Lake, NY, July 2009.
10.  Jared's performance for Sound Express at Greencroft Goshen, Dec. 2009. 
11. Mark at Epcot in front of the awesome "flower towers". 
12.  Walters family reunion, August 2009.
13. WOL Superbowl! 
14.  Jared's (and the other MMBC kids), performance of Brother's Grimm.
15.  The first trip to Chicago of 2009, in July with Mom, Kim, Kassie and Linn who was back for a visit.  This was at Cheesecake Factory!!
16.  Elkhart Well Fields shortly after Nicole arrived.  



More Later........who knows how much later! ;)