This past weekend!

Well we ended up staying home this past weekend. It was going to cost a bit more than we wanted plus roller coasters aren't my favorite thing. So we stayed home and did a ton of stuff on our to do list. We slept in a few days and were able to go to some open houses of some of my former students. That was really nice to catch up with them a bit. We had a tile floor in our walk in shower in our master bathroom but had the hardest time with the grout lines staying sealed. So....Troy pulled it all up on saturday morning and dried it all out and then on sunday afternoon we poured a new concrete floor for our shower. It looks so cool! I will have to post some pictures. We also worked on our fountain in the front yard and some landscaping. It is starting to look better and better. Troy sealed the shower floor last pm and the fumes were so strong we ended up sleeping in the basement which was wonderful. It is so cool down there we both slept like a rock. Troy is calling me the AC nazi, because we haven't turned it on yet. I refuse until at least tomorrow (June), I am also fearful of how expensive it is going to be to keep our house cool. With 6,400 square feet it will be a few pennies.
I will try and post again soon with pictures.

CEDAR POINT

Sherry and I don’t get many three day weekends or vacations during the year, so last night we decided to come up with something to do this weekend. The best that we came up with is a road trip to Cedar Point. I’ve never been, but I hear it’s the place for roller coaster fans and thrill seekers. The problem is that Sherry is neither!!! So we’re looking for some other couples that might be interested in throwing something together.

Anyway…nothing is set in stone, and we’re just trying to get some people together to enjoy the weekend. If you’re interested, please contact either Sherry or me so we can look into it further.

Chicago!

We went to chicago for the weekend with our good friends Rich and Erica. We had such a wonderful time. We left early saturday morning and went to Shedd's Aquarium and then hit Giordano's famous pizza place for lunch. Then we went to the Lincoln Park Zoo to see some awesome animals. Here is a picture of one of my favorites -that would be the Giraffe not Troy :).

We stayed in Chicago for the night and got up Sunday morning and went to Harvest Bible Chapel home of Pastor James MacDonald. If you have never heard him you know why we always LOVE to go. The message was on trials and it was such a great reminder of how God is so much bigger than all of us and our situations. We then hit Ikea for a few hours before we grabbed supper and headed home. It was so nice to just get away for a day or two with great friends.

The latest news..........

So the pretty blue eggs hatched sometime in the past week. Have you ever seen what comes out of those pretty blue eggs? Wow…imagine a bald, baby mouse that got rolled in the lint tray of your dryer. Oh yeah, and they have hideously oversized black eyes buried into their pink skin. Anyway, we’ve been keeping an eye on them as they hatched one by one. Sherry enjoyed teasing them by chirping at the nest and watching them blindly reaching to the sky with open mouths hoping for some grub (literally) from momma. Then we got home from work last night…boom…all gone. They didn’t fall out on the ground that we can tell. But, they’re not in the nest. The best we’ve come up with is that some other critter had them for lunch. I just hope they tasted better than they looked…such is the circle of life I guess.


Sherry said I should probably give an update on my knee. The doctor removed the broken bone and bad cartilage, and I now have what he called a pothole in the bottom of the femur. He also harvested some good cartilage and sent it to a lab out east. If insurance will cover it, the lab will grow it into a piece that can later be grafted into the hole that is left from last week’s surgery. If insurance doesn’t cover it, I just have to learn to live with it as it is I suppose. Bummer…guess the mini-marathon records are safe for a while. Anywho, time will tell how the surgery turns out. For the time being, my whole leg is pretty swollen…in part because sitting around waiting for it to heal is not in my nature. Otherwise, it’s not been too painful.

By the way, whatever happened to good old fashioned Tylenol with codeine? I remember that being the pain killer of choice when I was growing up. Now they give two prescriptions…the first one for pain and the second one for the side effects of the first prescription. Seems like some sort of racket to me?!?!? By the time we got through reading about and hearing about the side effects of the pain killer, I opted for the pain. It’s just not worth it.

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