Time goes so fast!

I have been back from vacation for 3 days and I have not blogged about my trip yet! Yikes- We had a great time. I think I will have you check in on Allison's blog this week. Since we were on the same vacation together http://barnesfamlv.blogspot.com/ is her site. It is also on the side bar to the right. She posted most of the photos I would have done. So thanks Allison! That saves me alot of time!

I have to get some sleep now. Up way too late last night! I will fill you in soon- I promise! I know you can hardly wait. He he.....

Wedding Shower Invite!

This free digital greeting card personalized with Smilebox

Deck Finished!

My face is getting alot better. The Doctor gave me this cool cream -Silver Sulfadia. It is awesome. I can't believe how fast my face if healing. Good thing, I was a little worried about being all scabby for Davids wedding photos. Man I am pale! I need some sun!

This is the deck after being stripped, then brightened and then sanded in a few places. Wow alot of work. I also had the boys clean out the moss that was starting to grow in between the boards.

Yikes I started staining the railing first. It is allot darker and more of solid paint than a stain. It was suppose to be a semi-transparent stain. I don't see any transparency it in. But too late now.

Done! Well it is really cedar red isn't it. I guess it will grow on me. I am sure it will look better when we put furniture back on the deck. The weather has not been that great so it has not really dried very fast. It has already rained on it after only 6 hours of drying. It still feel tacky to me. So socks only for a while.

It will be nice to eat outside again this summer. I hope we have some warm weather soon.

I sure hope this stain lasts longer than last time. It only lasted maybe 2 years last time. The can says 5-6 years for this type of stain. Sure....I will believe it when I see it.

World Cup-Graduation-Yard Work!

USA vs England- big game in our house. It was fun to watch the game. I was sad that the game was a 1-1 tie. But also glad that no one was a loser in the game. We had a big party planned, but decided to cancel it because Gary was not feeling that great. Much better now- Yeah!

Graduation Party Time- Scott Cox and Zach Erickson had an open house at Krisses for graduation! They are so big and grown up. Well not too grown up. His friends did wrap him up in duct tape and saran wrap. :-)

It was fun to see my cousin Steve. It has been a while. He moved to California. How does my face look? It was a great topic at the party. My stripping accident was a hit. Well you know what I mean. Its funny when your wound is so noticeable how much attention you get. Not that I like that kind of thing. :-)

I thought I would take a photo of the boys working! I didn't even bug them about it. Wow I wonder what they really want?

How cute is Andrew? Very!!!

Stripping Accident!

Who knew stripping was so dangerous! Well stripping the deck that is. he he he... Ok here is how I got burned on my face! Vincent and Spencer are stripping the deck to get ready to stain it. I started to help them because it was getting late and starting to rain.

First I splattered some stripper in my face and got some in my eye. So I ran inside and took out my contact and washed out my eye really good. I really flushed it out for a long time. Then I put on my old glasses for safety and went back out. Then I got hair in my face and brushed it out of the way with my gloved hands. I guess my gloves had a bunch of stripper on in and it got on my face! Well I felt it sting, but I was almost done and so I waited to get it off. Then it really hurt. So I went back in and washed it off. Too late! I could see a big burn on my face. Ouch it was really starting to hurt.

I did not go into the doctors that night. I have had enough of ER rooms. So I washed it good and put some ointment on it. Then I went to my doctor the next day. She does not think any real damage was done. She also put stuff in my eye to check and see if it got damaged. All is well so far.

I have a feeling my face will look terrible for a while. So that is how you can get burned by stripping!

This is something Gary would have done. Maybe he is rubbing off on me. ???

Day 2

Day 1

You can see the iodine stuff they put in my eye on my face. Not looking my best. Gross!

Boys putting on the stain stripper then you wash it off. It is a really big job.

We have it all ready to go. But it has been raining hard for 2 days. I think it will be dry this weekend. Maybe friday. We will have to wait and see.