More Miscellaneous

I'm back again with more miscellaneous pictures from our hectic lives! :)

These guys are so much fun!

Those pictures are from over a month ago. :-/

Sam and Brie cleaned horse stalls at a horse training/boarding facility for about 6 weeks. Here, they got to meet the owners of this horse, a 2 time world champion in dressage. They were so excited to meet somebody/something that was famous! :)

One evening, Abi and I went with the boys to get the lumber for our new deck.

Then, we went to Dairy Queen afterwards... :)

And... You'll never believe it, but, the deck got finished! Dad, the boys and Ben built it for Mom for Mother's Day.

Hooray! Hoorah! No more ugly cement block pillars! The guys did an awesome job! We've been enjoying the deck so much! Since its always shady out there, we like to sit out there during the hottest time of the day.

Lil' buddy guy

There's that angel, Ryan, fixing our attic dormers!

They put all the siding pieces in the boys room.

Kelsey brought the littles over to see Ryan.

Abi made a giant Reeses Peanut Butter Cup For Uncle Mike's birthday. :)

Mothers' Day cookout

Wedding fabric... 26 yards of it!

Thankfully Brie and Grace wear the same sizes and patterns that Abi and I wear. That made cutting out easier!

Five dresses to sew and a piece each for Kels and Aunt Carol.

I had to make an exhaustive list for all the dresses. I definitely didn't want to forget anything!

Sam loves dry ice. :)

Thrift store shopping is always an experience!

Tater tot casserole... Yummy!

Sam's new set of dentures!

A rare sight... Josh watching Sam work.

There's nothing more pleasant than hanging your laundry out on a sunny, breezy day!

Watson loves to eat things... especially squirrels and mice.

Doughy wuvs his "'ronis"!

Selfie ;)

Some people are just born clowns...

Little Virgin Marys

More selfie! ;)

Ryan had to get his house fixed up before the accessor came to value their house. Here, a group of us gathered to help them scrape and paint their garage.

This happened over a month ago.

:)

Sweet, precious baby cakes :) I love her so much!

All finished!

I took the littles over to play on their dilapidated swing set.

Josh brought his grinder over. That sure made fast work of the scraping!

Some people worked harder than others... :)

Stop and smell the flowers!

I was cleaning a house (I won't say whose house) :) when I pulled a wad of hair off the top of the shower drain. It just kept coming... and coming... It was gross!

I finished all of the wedding dresses except for Katelyn and Alaina's. :)

Instead of stopping to smell the flowers, we stop to smell the coffee at Sweet Joy Shoppe. Oh, we do taste things too. :P

Orscheln's was having a cashier sale. We hurried over and bought one. :D JK :)

It's fun shopping with Lindsay Lou. :)

KK, Abi, and I went for a walk one evening when this storm blew up.

It was awesome watching it form!

What is it with putting adult hats on little children?!

In closing...

Birthday Party in Axtell

We were invited to Caleb Collison and Whitney's birthday party on April 30th. Dad and Abi weren't able to go because of church responsibilities and Abi's chores. :( Josh and KK left a day early so that they could spend some time with the remaining Smith boys. ;P That left Mom, Sam and I to make the trip ourselves. We left Sunday morning, arriving in Kearney about 3. We had heard that we could be there around 3:30, but when we asked Josh, he said the party wasn't until 5... Hm... Any ideas on how to kill time? So, we stopped in at a couple cute looking places. It wasn't till later that we learned that Smiths were going to be at the Axtell community building at 3:30 to set up... Arg. We could've spent our time helping them! :) Oh, well. We had fun anyway.

The party was a blast! Since Caleb was turning 30 and Whit 25, the theme for the party was "Getting Old." :D 

My mouth was still in pretty bad shape from the infection, but I just couldn't stay home! It hurt like the dickens to smile and talk, but I couldn't help it. I laughed so much! It actually made my mouth feel better... Not sure why. :)

Anyway, here are the few pictures that I took...

We stopped in at a little gift shop called "The Stagecoach." It was very... Interesting, to say the least. Sam found these glasses with side burns. It really did look pretty authentic! :)

I like the pink one...

Little Landon Smith

I got to hold him for quite awhile. He was so good! What a cutie!

Ok, we played this game where we had to scoop, with a spoon, as much water into a Depend as we could. Aunt Annette counted to "3", then you had to pass it on. They had set up two long tables, so we competed to see which row could make their Depend the heaviest. Our table lost, but we consoled ourselves with the knowledge that the other table wasn't above cheating. :D

Sheila arranged to have a wheel chair there for each of them. They each had to pick a partner, then Sheila gave them each a plate of food with a card of instructions. The partner didn't know what the card said. :P The "old people" had to try to make their wishes known to their partner through nothing but their eyes or grunting. The instruction card told them to ask for things like, "put pepper on my green beans", "give me a drink", "blow my nose."

Here's a video... Watch Caleb... He's priceless! 

BTW, Caleb and Sharesse won the contest. :)

Since the party theme was definitely tending toward adult diapers, Sheila had us guess which of these adult diapers were the top brand. After that, we had to guess how much liquid that particular brand could hold. I think it was somewhere around 93 oz. Incredible!!

Years ago, Caleb had given Mark a bag of Depends for his birthday, hence the theme. :) Mark and Sheila don't forget easily!

Whitney's cake

*Avery made both cakes*

Opening gifts

It sure was a fun day! Despite my mouth reminding me constantly that all was not well, I had a great time! I think we got home around 9:30 or 10.