It's been a while

So, we have been busy over the last couple of weeks. On the 12th we cooked BBQ for a benefit to help one of Dave's friends involved ina motorcycle accident. The food raised over $500 dollars and the entire benefit collected about $8000. I would venture to say, it was a great success.

On Sunday, we finally decided to take all of the moeny we'd been saving and go buy our new TV. Dave finally got his 42" plasma! Now we have to save up for the HD receiver box. Maybe next race season! It was ok until we got home to put it all together. Our friend, Chris, come over to help. Actually I bribed him with beer and dinner. Anyway, he and Dave start putting the TV stand together and there are no instructions. They decided the instruction must be in the box with the glass panels. Well, upon removing the tape, there was a small glass explosion all over my livingroom floor! It seem that every piece of glass in the box had shattered and a portion of it was in my carpet! So we load it all back up and head to WalMart - That becomes a whole new story for a novel... After arguing with them for 30+ minutes, we jsut got our money back and went to Best Buy to get me a TV stand. It was actually $50 cheaper and only took Dave and Chris about 20 minutes to put together. Here's the new set up.. I've since painted the DVD shelf balck and hung 2 pictures above the TV. The boys didn't even notice that huge bare space on the wall... MEN!!!!!

We had our Passion Party Thursday night - What fun that was! There were 5 couples and we had a blast! But we shall remember, what happed at the party, stays at the party... mmmm is the word!

Mom and Dad came down yesterday. We sold one of our sofas. Mom was going to sell her big green reclining one and I snatched it up. I love that couch, recliner/massager. It is great and totally coordinated with the other sofa we own.

BUSY WEEKEND

What a great 3-day weekend it was - All we did was party.

The July 4th Party at the Smith's was a lot of fun. We had a great time. Here are some pictures: Dave and his pit, of course... And then there is Morgan. Dear, sweet, cute, loveable Morgan... He's a Senior now, has been for a while, so Laura ordered him a special pitcher and he dunked his Aggie Ring. 66.5 Seconds - WOW! He didn't even get sick. Afterwards, he and Dave celebrated with a shot of Jim Beam!

Brandon and Crystal are down from Alabama, so they had a birthday party for Benjamin at Tiffany Park. It was a great day. The kids had a blast at the splash pad.

No good can come from this conversation!!!

Finally - Looks like Uncle Ray an Aunt Gayle certainly have their hand full.

The Never Ending Birthday!

What a week. So, when you have as many birthdays as I've had, you stop talking about them, but this one will not end! I guess I should be happy considering that this one is the last of a decade. Oh, my, now that made me feel old... I am starting on the end of another decade!

We started at WWW last week (you remember the Gift bag story post), then Mom and Dad and Sam and Misty came down and we all went to dinner Monday night (my actual birthday). Well, this week at WWW, Laura brought that most fantastic, deliciuos, 5-layer chocolate indulgence, individually sized cheesecakes... I hope there were enough descriptive adjectives in there for you! If you close your eyes, you can actually taste how good they were.

As I think all of the birthday hoopla is over, I find out today that I won the Grand prize drawing for the Weekly Birthday party from the radio station! Party for 8 at Grand Station - It's the new bowling place here in town. Too funny!!

This will hopefully end a week of celebrating.

On to the 4th. We are having a party at Dave's boss's house tomorrow. He is doing the BBQ, and there will be fireworks at night.

My cousin who is living in Alabama is in the state, so we will spend some time with them on Saturday for their little boy's birthday.

Hopefully I will have pictures for you next week - HAPPY 4TH!