Belated Fathers day

Happy Father's day to all the dads!  I'm a day late, because we were celebrating with the dads in our lives all weekend. We saw my dad on Saturday and celebrated with the Tucker dads on Sunday.

We spent the day at my in-laws and went swimming with our niece and nephew.   I hadn't played "Marco Polo" in years, we had a great time with them.

Our nephew is the sweetest, he was making cards for his dad and grandpa and asked if there was an uncle's day, and made a special card for Kevin...so Happy Uncle's day too!!

Saturday recap

We had a busy weekend and have some accomplished projects and bumps and bruises to show for it!

We tried to go blueberry picking last weekend but waited too late and they were picked out by the time we were going to go (thank goodness we checked the website before driving out there).   This weekend we tried again, and succeeded!  We went early in the morning to make sure we’d be there on time.   My dad and I went; Kevin and my mom stayed in the nice cool house and got to sleep in.  I’m glad we went early! There were so many people, and we probably should’ve been there even earlier.  We were lucky to get buckets (They ran out of buckets at 7:30 am)   Together my dad and I picked right at 20 lbs of blueberries.  I see lots of blueberry goodies in my future.  I could have done without the hour wait to pay for them – we did use our time well by me getting in line while my dad continued to pick.  Next year, we’ll leave even earlier.  Though I actually hope next year they’ll be open during the week, I think that is a big part of why they are so crowded this year.  In case you are interested, the place we went was Moorhead blueberry farm.

Later that day, after my parents left Kevin and I continued putting together a garage cabinet we’d purchased – all part of our goal to organize the garage.  This was the hardest item we’ve put together and the item fought back.  I ended up with cuts and a bump to the head before we finished.  We did finish it (finally) and it looks great.  We’re glad we have to wait on missing parts for the other item, gives us time to heal before we have to get started on it.   I think that putting together furniture could be a contest on a dating show -- you really see if you can work together!

I slept so good that night, lots of sun and hard work will do that to me.

new word

We invited a word the other night....a "pee-piphany"   - when an idea or realization comes to you when you are using the rest room....

Well, turns out we only thought we invented it....its already in the urban dictionary.

Now I need to figure out what the word is for when a great idea or solution comes to you in the shower or when you're driving -- that happens more often for me.

Have a great Saturday!

almost Wordless Wednesday

This is what Kevin sees every afternoon.  Smokey waits for me to get home and walk through the door.   He knows I'm home before K does since he can hear the garage door.  

He's a silly dog, but he's our silly dog.....

Kevin's random ideas

Kevin doesn't have much of a presence on the blog, to remedy that we'll start sharing Kevin's random ideas...he has some doozies that I just have to shake my head and laugh at....

here is the first installment...

This morning he said we should've named our dog "sir"  -- can you imagine calling our dog in public?  people would think we're crazy....if its a girl "ma'am"

We love to talk about what we should've named Smokey as we've seen his personality come out...my favorites - Hoover or Kirby since he sucks up food (as long as it isn't dog food) like a vacuum cleaner.

I know there are other good ones, I just can't think of them now

HOW is it already June???   I'm not ready for summer to be here, but here it is....