Wow! It's been almost a week since my last post, so there's a lot of catching up to do:
-Arkansas was fun! It was nice to relax with my parents! We did lots of "home improvement" projects: painting, hanging blinds and curtains, scrubbing paint of the floor with a tootbrush (I felt like Cinderella), moving big things, taking down/hanging up ceiling fans, cleaning and dusting. We accomplished a lot! Of course, we didn't do this alone...my parents helped too!
-We found out Fisher is allergic to mosquito bites...he had a bad reaction to some bites. They are healing now.
-It was confirmed that my mom is allergic to wasp stings. She got stung on her right ring finger out by the shed at the old house trying to get a planter out for my aunt. Her hand puffed up so big
that it looked like a blown up latex glove! We called it "Puff: The Magic Hand." There was even a song for it!
-We had a big family gathering at my aunt and uncle's on Sunday. I made red, white and blue cupcakes and put them on my cupcake tree. I'm pretty sure I'm officially addicted to this cake decorating thing!
-We tried out the new frozen custard place near my parents called Andy's. Yum!
-We went to the local Aldi (in Kennett, MO) to stock up on "boy cereal." We stock up every six months or so. Whenever we're near an Aldi: Kennett, Memphis, Illinois, etc. But only when we're driving and can haul back 5 boxes of cereal! I also loaded up on cheap powdered sugar and 29 cent taco seasoning! LOL I wish we could bring the cold stuff home! This place has such awesome deals!
-We ate out, a lot.
-I made beef stroganoff one night for dinner, and pecan crusted pork chops the next. We wanted my parents to try some new dishes. Although, beef stroganoff is not new to them.
-We visited my cousin Derek's garden. He lives across the street from my parents. I saw the garden on the second day of our visit and there was a quarter-sized watermelon, when I checked on it again (three days later) it was slightly smaller than a baseball! He's growing watermelon, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, sunflowers, eggplant and cucumbers. It looks like he's going to have a bumper crop of tomatoes and cucumbers! It's a small garden, but he's very proud of it and I'm very impressed by it! Of course, I have a black thumb, so I can't grow anything...but mold! LOL ;-)
I'm writing from the car, thanks to Cingular's Edge service. I should go now. We're getting close to our exit! Woohoo! I'll post pics later once I download them from my camera.
Oh, and Happy 4th! We're watching fireworks from our balcony tonight! The Richardson (our city) fireworks show is at Breckinridge Park which is conveniently located near our apartment complex, and our balcony faces the right direction to watch from the comfort of our own apartment, and we don't have to fight traffic! Of course, we can't get satellite TV because of the balcony direction, but we can see fireworks!
Later gators!
-Arkansas was fun! It was nice to relax with my parents! We did lots of "home improvement" projects: painting, hanging blinds and curtains, scrubbing paint of the floor with a tootbrush (I felt like Cinderella), moving big things, taking down/hanging up ceiling fans, cleaning and dusting. We accomplished a lot! Of course, we didn't do this alone...my parents helped too!
-We found out Fisher is allergic to mosquito bites...he had a bad reaction to some bites. They are healing now.
-It was confirmed that my mom is allergic to wasp stings. She got stung on her right ring finger out by the shed at the old house trying to get a planter out for my aunt. Her hand puffed up so big
that it looked like a blown up latex glove! We called it "Puff: The Magic Hand." There was even a song for it!
-We had a big family gathering at my aunt and uncle's on Sunday. I made red, white and blue cupcakes and put them on my cupcake tree. I'm pretty sure I'm officially addicted to this cake decorating thing!
-We tried out the new frozen custard place near my parents called Andy's. Yum!
-We went to the local Aldi (in Kennett, MO) to stock up on "boy cereal." We stock up every six months or so. Whenever we're near an Aldi: Kennett, Memphis, Illinois, etc. But only when we're driving and can haul back 5 boxes of cereal! I also loaded up on cheap powdered sugar and 29 cent taco seasoning! LOL I wish we could bring the cold stuff home! This place has such awesome deals!
-We ate out, a lot.
-I made beef stroganoff one night for dinner, and pecan crusted pork chops the next. We wanted my parents to try some new dishes. Although, beef stroganoff is not new to them.
-We visited my cousin Derek's garden. He lives across the street from my parents. I saw the garden on the second day of our visit and there was a quarter-sized watermelon, when I checked on it again (three days later) it was slightly smaller than a baseball! He's growing watermelon, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, sunflowers, eggplant and cucumbers. It looks like he's going to have a bumper crop of tomatoes and cucumbers! It's a small garden, but he's very proud of it and I'm very impressed by it! Of course, I have a black thumb, so I can't grow anything...but mold! LOL ;-)
I'm writing from the car, thanks to Cingular's Edge service. I should go now. We're getting close to our exit! Woohoo! I'll post pics later once I download them from my camera.
Oh, and Happy 4th! We're watching fireworks from our balcony tonight! The Richardson (our city) fireworks show is at Breckinridge Park which is conveniently located near our apartment complex, and our balcony faces the right direction to watch from the comfort of our own apartment, and we don't have to fight traffic! Of course, we can't get satellite TV because of the balcony direction, but we can see fireworks!
Later gators!
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Mike and I got to watch fireworks last night from my apartment balcony too! So convenient! :)
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