Autumn left her soccer ball here, I found it this morning. So, I decided to take it with us to church and give it to her after church. I put it in the back seat and left it there during service. We come back out and we found it like this!!

Never in my life have I seen a ball explode like this. I wonder if the car was too hot? I have no idea, but I feel so bad that I was in possession of the ball when this happened!!! LOL!!!! I wonder what it sounded like when this happened? LOL! Was quiet a surprise when we all got into the car!

Had a picnic last night and of course with fireworks. This was our 6th fireworks show this year. I think this was the best one of all. I didn’t even know about the picnic until noon. Brenda text’ed me and asked me what time to be there and I said, “Oh, about 8:30 or so, it’s just fireworks.” She then said Chuck told her there was a picnic and to come around 5pm!! I went out and asked him and he forgot to tell me!! He told everyone BUT me!! Here it is noon and people are coming at 5pm for hamburgers and hot dogs and such! Of course I had NOTHING in the house to feed all these people. So, I had to run to the store and get everything, come home and made macaroni salad, a pineapple cake, and 2 loaves of bread. So, we had plenty of food but by the time 5pm came I was so tired! I actually feel asleep around 5:15 and Brenda got here at 6pm. Everyone is always late.

We had lawn games and Autumn brought her soccer ball and we had a football.. I got nailed by the football in the leg and I was sitting on the deck! My MIL almost got it in the head but she ducked so I got it in the leg LOL! Better me then her.

After the fireworks we had cake and people finally left at 10pm. I was laying in bed at 9:30 LOL!! We’ve had Dave over to play with the boys all weekend long. He just went home today after church. It’s nice to have a quiet house again.

Chuck rented a tracker and brushhog for the weekend so we can knock down some of this really tall grass. We bought the 25 acres next to us and it has a big field. It hasn’t been done in a couple of years and small trees are starting to grow up in there. Chuck also did around the house out back where the ruts are so bad from the skidder pulling out logs years ago that I can’t mow back there. It looks so much better now and it looks like our yard is huge now!

Those are the ear muffs I’m thinking about wearing to my next dentist appoitment LOL!!

I just thought I’d share a picture of “Baby Peter” our youngest cat. He was sleeping against my leg and I just had to get a picture of him, he is just SO cute!!!

And here he is again, I took this the other day. He is sleeping the the crook of Joe’s arm.

Yesterday was Chuck’s 39th birthday. Was a normal day. Kids went to school, I ran around getting everything for dinner and then cooking ALL morning. Ran and got Joe from school, then went back and got CJ after practice and ran him to K-Mart to get his dad a card. Got home had dinner which of course was lasagna! What else would one have on a birthday! We were all so full we decided to have cake later. He opened his cards. Joe got him one that sang about how he was born so very long ago LOL! I got him one that made kissing noises and CJ got him one with a football on it LOL! Then he opened his present. We got him a new pair of work boots that are water proof and have steel toes. The pair he has are falling apart, the soles are coming off and the toes are all ripped up. So, he was quiet happy with the new boots and he wore them to the game.

We all showered and then off to the local high school football game. I hate sitting in bleachers watching games but at least I had my phone with Internet access!! I was IM’ing my friends and reading blogs to pass the time LOL!! We won so that was good. Neal, Chuck’s business partner, has three boys in high school and two were in the game and the middle boy was part of the marching band.

This is our dorky mascot. I think one of the cheerleaders is in there. Maybe the one that just didn’t quiet make the squad so she’s the mascot LOL!!!! We all agree that it’s a very creepy mascot! By the way, we are the Patriots, so this must be a Patriot!

Well, I finally went to a dentist last night. I haven’t been to one in 5 years. We don’t have insurance and have to pay out of pocket. The ladies I workout with and have lunch with on Tuesday’s, well one, Sue, her husband is a dentist. His name is Mike. Mike ordered firewood from Chuck and got 4 cords. Chuck told me to take that money and get my teeth fixed. I have many that hurt, most all the ones in the back.

I got there at 5:45 and he worked on one tooth till 7:30!! Needless to say it was pretty bad. He had to drill behind it, in front of it and on top of it!! It had a pretty deep cavity. I the other two teeth in front of that one had cavities too but that will be another day. I go back on the 4th to have more done. I will get X-Rays and really see how many teeth need done. My guess is, all of them! My teeth are so bad!!! Mike said next time I come we need to talk about sugar LOL!! Okay, I drink to much soda and all that sugar sitting on my teeth isn’t good!

He numbed the area where he gave the shot but I still cried, SIGH!! Big baby. Not bad, but I had tears running down my cheeks. He asked if I wanted a tissue and I’m like, “No, I’m fine.” LOL!!

No, before I went in, I flossed and brushed my teeth really good. Half way through drilling that tooth he said, “What’s this?” OH MY GOD!! I was so embarrassed!! He pulled out a rather big piece of pork!!! I could have just died!!! He said chicken? I said no, pork. I said I was so sorry and that I flossed and brushed really good after dinner but he said it wouldn’t have matter I would have never gotten it. I guess I had a whole back there it got shoved into. I have to see this man almost every day at the gym and I will keep thinking of the pork he pulled out of my teeth LOL!!

Ever since I had my wisdom teeth out, keeping my mouth wide open even for 5 minutes hurts my jaw pretty bad. This is the first dentist that let me keep my mouth partway closed so I didn’t have to keep my mouth wide open the whole time. I would have never made it for an hour an a half of that. Even now my jaw hurts but not as bad as it would have. Other dentists have made me keep my mouth wide open and if I couldn’t they would put something in there to make it stay open.

The noise of the drill really bothered me though. Noise bothers me and this one was awful. I gripped the chair and curled my toes. My whole body hurt from that high pitched whine!! So, I’m wondering if Mike won’t mind if next time I come if I wear Chuck’s ear muffs he wears in the woods, you know that orange kind? LOL!! I would look funny but I wouldn’t be so uncomfortable LOL!! I bet I would be the only patient he’s had that wears ear muffs in the chair LOL!! Chuck said to just bring them back to the job when I was done.

Well, just having that tooth done with an X-Ray was $198.00. I don’t think the money the pay us for firewood will fix my whole mouth. I told Mike we were using his firewood money to pay for my teeth and he said “Oh no, how many years worth do I have to buy?” LOL!! I’ll get what I can done and get the worst ones taken care of. He could tell I had braces because of the way my back teeth are just awful. That and sugar LOL!

When I finally got home, I was telling Chuck how Mike said we would talk about sugar next time I went it and I walked into the bedroom and found a single red rose and a HUGE chocolate bar on the bed LOL!!!!!!!!! I laughed and said I’ll have to keep the chocolate a secret from Mike! Chuck said he knew how I didn’t like dentists and was usually in pain when I came home and he thought that would cheer me up!! So sweet!!!! I ate half the bar today .

Well, went out to the mail box and guess what!!! I have Jury Duty on Sept. 9th and 16th which SUCKS cuz on Tuesday’s I do lunch with the girls that day. Any other day would have been just fine! ARG!! I have been meeting a group of ladies every Tuesday for about 6 months now. We all worked out together in the mornings when Curves was open. Now, I just work out with 2 every morning. I HATE missing those lunches. I have only missed one and it sucked LOL!

We’ll see how it goes. I hope it doesn’t take too long, Joe has swim team try-outs on the 9th at 6:30pm. I want to be there for that!! Ever since we watched the Olympics he has wanted to join a swim team so at the Y in Ashtabula they are having try-outs for their swim team. He can’t wait and is very excited about it.

Man, once school starts my life gets very chaotic and drama filled LOL!!!