Had Chris, Dave and their 3 girls out last night for BBQ and some shooting. We all had a really good time! we had 4 kittens come over from the back yard. Not sure where they exactly came from but all the kids had a good time with them and NO, we aren’t keeping any of them. They are all very thin and have gross eyes.

Here are her three girls with the kittens.

Here is Chris

Here is one of the kittens

Here is Joe shooting at clay targets

Here is Dave taking his turn

Here is Chuck taking his turn

And CJ taking his

While the guys where shooting the big guns at the clay disks Chris and the girls were taking turns witha  BB gun they brought.  They were shooting at soda cans.

All and all a very good night!  Hope we all can do it again soon!

I sent the boys to school on Wed. though they still were not feeling well. Their music teacher canceled since they were still sick. They didn’t even go to youth group that night.

Chuck and I had to run into Ashtabula Wed. night as we were totally out of dog food and I had to go to the library and he wanted to price some stuff at Lowe’s. I HATE shopping and I really didn’t want to go but we had to since we had NO dog food. We picked up some chicken (ready made) at Wal*Mart for dinner and we made it home by 7:30pm. That night Chuck and I were both VERY sick. I lay in bed most of the night trying NOT to throw up. Shaking and sweating, the whole bit. We don’t know if it was the fried food or if we were now getting sick. I stayed sick till Friday so maybe it wasn’t the 10 small pieces of popcorn chicken I had.

On Thursday night they FINALLY brought my truck back home. The wrecker came at 9pm that night! Crazy hours! We were already in bed and everything! Glad to have it back home though. Today Dave came out to look at it and take it all apart and find parts for it. He will take some of it to work with him to work on it there with better tools. I will be glad to have my truck back. I hate being stuck at home with no wheels!

Last night I had to borrow my brother-in-law’s truck to go out to Debbie’s house. She and I had dinner with her husband then we went into Erie and we got to see 2 movies!! First we saw “The Terminator” and then we saw “Night at the Museum 2″. I didn’t know she could see movies all day long for free! COOL!! She works there and we go for free. Chris, who usually goes with us, couldn’t make it because her girls softball game was canceled the night before due to rain so they rescheduled it for Friday night. At least this time I didn’t get sick! I had a really good time and got home at 11:10pm. I went right to bed too. Chuck and Joe stayed up watching some western till midnight.

Here in a little while Chris and her husband, Dave (the one working on my truck), and their 3 girls are coming out for dinner. I’m grilling hamburgers and pork chops. I also made a bunch of deviled eggs and chocolate chip cookies. She is bringing a pasta salad.

I FINALLY got started seeding my garden. I’m SO late with it this year. I just don’t have the umph to do it I guess. I made myself get out there and do it. I still need to get over to my sisters for my pepper and tomato plants. ALL the plants I started DIED!!! SUCKS!! I was doing really good with my hot peppers and they died! ARG!! I’m just NOT good at this stuff. SIGH!! Let’s hope I have a decent garden this year anyway.

Today, I kept both kids home.  CJ was on the toilet with a bucket in his lap last night and still isn’t feeling to well and Joe has a fever a bad cough and stuffed up nose. Joe got me up at 4am for medicine and shivering.  I hope they are okay for tomorrow as they only have 6 days left!

Yesterday, Chuck was in Albion on a back road when the front upper ball joint went out in my truck.  He had no control and jumped a ditch and landed in a field!  I had to go pick him up and at 5:30am I didn’t feel like taking a picture, LOL!  So, we are having it towed here this morning and a friend of ours that is a mechanic in Erie is going to work on it and look it over REALLY good since the damn thing keeps breaking down.  I know what’s wrong with it, I paid it off!  I told Chuck are you sure you want to, once we do it’s going to fall apart! LOL!!  I guess the tire fell right over and he rode it like a ski!  I hope there isn’t much damage done.  Dang, that was a brand new tire!

We all worked outside yesterday ALL DAY LONG!  I had to rake out the garden and get all the root clumps out of it since I didn’t have a garden last year it was full of weeds and grass.  I thought I’d be done by noon but wasn’t done till 4pm!  I started at 9am.  We were all very tired and dirty by the end of the day.  Chuck ran the saw and the boys helped clean up all the wood and kept a large fire going.  Both boys didn’t feel so good all day and they got worse by evening.

Had our anual family picnic at a park in Linesville.  Had a really good day too.  I felt like taking pictures and I took over 60 of them.  Since there are so many you can watch the slide show HERE.  If you click on the “Show Info” in the right had corner you will see who the picture is of.   We are all exhausted from that picnic yesterday!  It was a beautiful day too.  Sandy was wiped out! We got home at 7pm and she went to bed right then.  She usually gets me up between 5-6am to go outside.  Today I had to drag her out of bed at 9am to go outside and then she came right back in and laid on the couch and she is still there now! LOL!!

We have Little Dan over today and he is playing the Xbox with Joe in Joe’s room.  CJ spent the night at a friends house and stayed up all night and is now sleeping!  LOL!  You’ll see some pictures of Collin and that is the boys friend that CJ spent the night at last night.

Friday was quiet a day.  Had all those visitors and then the tree trimming company came and whacked all the neighbors trees.  I’m SO glad the phone wires are on the OTHER side of the road. They really whacked those trees!

I was mowing and the mower kept breaking down.  First a spring broke and we fixed that and then a belt broke and I had to quit mowing as Chuck was busy and didn’t feel like fixing it.  He’s been at it for days.  Once we are done it should run great!  He put sharp blades on and a new belt the other day and it ran great till the spring broke and ANOTHER belt went, LOL!!

This morning I had quiet a few visitors!  The BEST one is this little kitten!!  Chuck was getting into his truck and I was brining out his keys to him when I saw this little one walking up the driveway!! SO CUTE!!!!

She is SO friendly and LOVES Sandy!!  She will lay on her back and let Sandy lick her and nose her around.  I wish so bad I could keep her but we have enough cats and kittens tend to grow up into cats, LOL!!!  She is SUCH a CUTIE!!!  I should stop playing with her so she’ll go back home.  Not sure where she came from.  The neighbors I guess.  I’ve been playing with her for over an hour!
Then Teddy came over to play with Sandy.

Teddy comes over quiet a bit and really loves to be played with.  He is still a HUGE mooch!!

Then the neighbors ducks came by to graze in our grass.

I love having all these visitors!!  It’s really nice to see all the neighbors pets come visit!  LOL!!

LOL!!  Sandy came up on the couch and decided to take a nap on the pillow!  LOL!! She is SO Spoiled!!