Annual photo taken by us....

Laurie....had to take the annual photo... Alyssa is so good at this! Miss you lots!

Ross and Julie's Wedding Rehearsal/Dinner

Steve with Ross and Julie at Rehearsal dinner...

Steve and Crystal with Ross and Julie...

Guest book at church...it is beautiful...

Ella made the slide show with Ross...

This is the mock place setting for the dinner...(tomorrow duties)....note photo of Julie and Ross age 12...they have 20 tables with picutures of each age....so cute!

The wedding party....at the church rehearsal

Me with all the dinner reservations.....all 200 alphabetized!

Alyssa with Grandpa Bob and Grandma Eunie

This is not Alex's beer...but wanted to show you the fun we were having...thought you would laugh!

Great time at Philip & Beth's Wedding...

Adam, Nate, Justin and Dan guarding the church doors before the wedding. Didn't want the bride to be seen before Philip saw her...

Beth and Joann before the wedding....such a beautiful bride!

Duane, Joann and Philip before the wedding...Joann's dress was beautiful!

I had such a great time...ate too much....drank too much...danced too much! Really needed a nap when I got home this afternoon!

New Roof...

Took the chimney out of the garage.... bushes trimmed short for the siding crew~
I am sitting out on the pergola right now...the bushes really got trimmed~but it is still so nice out here...today was the best!
You can see the different levels... I think I am going to like it.
They even painted the pipes brown....I guess it is fine! They really clean up after themselves I didn't find any nails or pieces in the yard or deck!

New roof in 4 hours.....

I couldn't believe that so many men working on my house...they were moving so fast I couldn't count them. They started at 7:00 AM and were done with the new shingles (a Dark brown) on the house and garage by noon. The supervisor told me they had 3 houses to do today! My house was the only two story...


They tied ropes to not fall from the roof...and move like a squirrel on the roof tearing off the shingles so fast and the men on the groud would have them picked up as soon as they hit the ground!

They didn't speak English and I wished I knew what they were saying...talking nonstop and laughing...I thought they were laughing on how bad my house looks and that It needs siding also!
I would smile and say Hi and Max would wag his tail and they would nod and say yes Ma'am! and then laugh and say "We Love Hail!"

So a crew of one supervisor and 12 men completed the job in record time!

Surprise for Ella!

Ella will have her own little chair to sit in under the "pergola"...I found this at a garage sale and wanted to paint it "Pink" but didn't find the right paint for plastic! Will post a kodak moment later....Ella is her chair!

Kentucky Head Hunters?

Just in case you don't know who they are! I am going to their concert....Thursday night at the Floyd County Fair....google them and you will find out you know their songs...such as "Dumas Walker"....are you jealous? Just remember it is in Charles City....Wanna Come?

MDA Lock up! I need your support!

I would like to Thank the person who nominated me. So I will be locked up on August 12th until I reach my bail of $500.00. If you would like to help me out: copy and paste this link into your browser and you can send a payment online. I would be grateful I really don't want to be locked up all day!

https://www.joinmda.org/charlescityialu2009/dtommingo/

Decisions....

These are the colors of the siding I can choose from... I was leaning toward "Natural Clay" my plans are to drive around today and look at houses. I had thought I would like....Wicker-Sand-Lt Maple...but after I saw it on a house...didn't like it! So....today is a beautiful day to go for a drive...Max will love it!
The windows will be white vinyl....and I need to pick a trim color.....so let me know what your vote would be! Now I need to pick out new Shingles for the roof! This is hard!

Update: I have made the decision of Natural Clay and white trim (because the windows are white)! The reason is that Natural Clay really looks like sand/wicker/tan ....it is crazy! But you really need to see it on a house to see the difference. Meeting Thursday night to finish details.....
Did order the shingles today....30 year Architect brown...so they look layered. I think I will like them. Oh I hate making big decisions....spending large amouts of money makes me not sleep!

The Big Cupcake!

It actually looks better at a distance! But for the first one not too bad! I will practice...the recipe makes I think a pound cake! I would like to try another recipe! Maybe next week! I will post the next one and you decide if I am getting better....