The Family Gathering: June 2012

So, once again it's summertime, which means it's time to hit the lake! we spend almost every weekend at the lake and almost always have others joining us! It's such great fun to get to hang out with all of our family and enjoy the water! Before John left for Phoenix we had him, Uncle Rich, and Kathy come with us which is always a hoot! John is getting so much better on the wakeboard and of course loves to show off his muscles for all the lake babes. Lol!

Last weekend we had Hannah and TJ come along with us. Hannah was such a daredevil! We got her out on the tube and had loads of fun!

Chase, TJ and I tried our hand at cliffdiving. It was TERRIFYING! The boys seemed to love it (of course) and both jumped 6 or 7 times while I was only brave enough to do it 3 times. I had to be practically pushed off, yet the boys ran off with gusto.

Chase claims he's the pro wakeboarder of the family, but I promise I'm just as good! Haha!

It's always a blast out on the lake, even through the sunburns and scorching heat, the family time is worth it. :) These are some of my favorite pictures I've managed to get so far this summer. :)

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Summer Time Blues

Well.... I can't pull myself back into accepting reality. It's too hot & I'm too lazy!
When we returned from our travels the Monday before last I accepted being a bum because I was tired & also because my mom & TJ were still here, so why not sit around & enjoy them while recuperating. Dustin & Nick went right to work on the outdoor kitchen project & kept busy for 3 days on welding & cutting to face out the exterior frame of the kitchen. Well.... 9 days later & I'm still worthless! Mom decided to stay since Roni was in town & we had a great time visiting & hanging out with her on Thursday evening. Friday morning Mom & T hit the road back to Amarillo & Dustin & I remembered we had a concert to go to that night & the next. Friday night was a nice date night, you'd think we had enough of one another after our trip but it was a great date! We had dinner at Pira in the American Airlines Center, enjoyed our concert & zipped home in time to kiss the kids goodnight. Saturday I did some yard work as my wisteria is OUT OF CONTROL as well as my butterfly bush which has rapidly outgrown my trees! ha ha! Saturday night we went to see Coldplay again with some good friends of ours & Sunday was family day.
Monday morning Dustin flew out for work & I drove home from the airport determined to make good use of my 2 weeks. As soon as I got home I began making a list of things to accomplish & then took a nap & this has become my pace. :/ I hosted a handful of girlfriends over for a mini wine & cheese part in celebration of my good friends B-day I had missed, so I DID get the house presentable & grocery shopping done. ha ha!
I think I will make a new list today & put doing a cleanse at the top of the list as I just feel sluggish & unhealthy right now and aquired quite a caffiene addiction with all those cafes over seas, so maybe that will help. Next on my list I should add signing back up for bootcamp because it will get me up early & feeling accomplished.
Hope everyone is having a much more productive summer than I so far & can't wait to read your posts! xx

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Laying around in Savanah!!

Well, here I am in Savanah, enjoying my grandkids!!! But as I read Dustin and Tina's adventure's I realize I would love to be there too... ha The boys and I have been very layed back since arriving. Not much to report. Nick and TJ went to work out yesterday and Nick is really sore today. I think he pulled a muscle when he and tj ran our block at home twice.... sigh.

Peyton is playing on his musical instruments entertaining me. we played games last night and Nick slaughtered us twice and tj won one game.

The dogs.... oops, I mean the other children are ??? not sure how to discribe my Uno experience... tried to excercise on the floor the first day here and he plopped himself down in front of my feet and stared at me, not to mention moved in close enough that my feet were flapping his lips as my legs went up and down... lol. He did not understand the "Get back Uno!" or the "Go away, can't you see I'm straining here?" So as Renee' suggested, I have shut him out of the room when I have to do my PT.... :))

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Cheers from The UK!

Hello family! Hope you have seen that I have a trip blog! If not I think you can find it under my profile. Dustin & I are having a great time now that I am over my food poisoning. Kinda got scary for a bit, but I am 100% again. Hope everyone is well! xx Tina

Monday, June 11, 2012

It's that time of year

Well today I take John to the airport to visit his family for a month! For some reason this always makes me sad, even though when he's home he spends his time flexing his muscles and singing crazy stuff and making me crazy lol, Really I'm thinking I wish I could spend my days by the pool in the sun! Oh well he will have a great time but I will be glad when he's home again! Next week my oldest son Daniel turns 25, How in the heck did he become this age?? So far summer is going great, had one lake trip and I hope we have more, Fun 4th of July as always here! Still working out hard to lose the rest of this flab before Randy's wedding next month!! My plan is to be 135 by then!! My lowest weight since High School and I'm almost there :) thank goodness!! Rich is still doing great of course but did have to not stop smoking completely!! The medicine did weird things to him and he was starting to get almost as crazy as me haha!! Well hope everyone is having a Great summer!! I'm just loving hearing of Tina's adventures in Ireland and wish Rich liked to do more fun things! Well it's a Great Summer in The Country!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Geek Moment

I myself am a huge space nerd. Today, the transit of Venus was visible to Earth for the last time until the year 2117! I was incredibly disappointed I wasn't able to view it firsthand, on account of cloudy rainy weather. I was able to find some great online live feeds of the event though, which made me happy that I could still view as it was happening! This is just some screenshots I got from the live feed on Nasa's website

Venus in Transit 6-5-2012

Sunday, June 3, 2012

So far behind!!

Ok, so I have too much to say & not few enough words for condensing it! "Short & sweet" has never been said of me! Ha ha! Anyways, since I will have my iPad on our trip & because Internet will be my only tie back to my people, look for me to blog about our travels! (good intentions) we actually have so much planned I am tired just thinking about it, but hopefully I find enough down time w/ my eyes open to update. Hope everyone is having a great start to summer! Love to you & your families. :)

The Family Gathering

Friday, June 29, 2012

One more week!!

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Lake Season!