Oh boy.....

It's too bad our family doesn't like each other!!!!

We should probably work on that! So all in all a super fantastic, just worked 16 hours so that's all you get, day!

Best Dressed!

Every night (okay, not every night), I put Buddy to bed, read him a bedtime story and then cuddle him while reading my Kindle until he falls asleep. Lately I've been reading some  (let me insert here before your mind starts wandering) clean romance novels. When Buddy got himself ready for church this morning, it made me wonder if he was reading over my shoulder when I was cuddling him to sleep?

Ah, it's Hawaii, who needs a shirt and tie anyway? So all in all a super fantastic, loving the effort, day!

Better things to do!

Buddy got to "kidsit" (as in babysit) a few of his friends today. They wanted to go to the skate park to run around like chickens with their heads cut off....

Mission accomplished! In other news, yesterday, we went to a friend's house to help with some home repairs....

As you can clearly see, Buddy and I are extremely handy at repairs!!! Heehee! We are very thankful for Shane and his handiness....even if he does get a little too "handsy" sometimes! So all in all a super fantastic, chicken running, day!

UGGGGHHHH....

I finally got around to taking a few pictures of our remodeled house. I'll post way more fantastic ones to do Kirk proud, but after teaching 25 kids first aid (although with a crowd of 25, I'm not sure I taught much of anything), these will have to do in the meantime. Trust me these pictures DO NOT DO JUSTICE TO MY AWESOMENESS, so here is a little snippet of our basement. First up, our Yellow Room (cause we're really creative with our room names)....

Shane's cave....

 The blue room....

 Our awesome kitchen....prior to the remodel, the kitchen ended at the stove. They added not only new and awesome countertops....but more cabinetry, oh, and a whole new entrance into my house! I knew knowing cool people would pay off some day!

Now for the piece de la resistance....our built in boogie board holder!

 One of the dad's that came over to bring his daughter to the "crazy first aid class" (because I'm pretty certain it wasn't just first aid I was teaching), looked at our custom build and said..." now that makes me feel like I'm in Hawaii"! Errr, the dad was born and raised in Hawaii, but I feel the exact same way! I mean really, who doesn't need a custom built boogie board holder???? In other news, I found this while trying to find my nursing graduation picture for nursing appreciation week....

Pretty certain that trumps my nursing picture hands down! Even if I am wearing a NURSE'S CAP AND A NOSE RING in my picture!!!! So all in all a super fantastic, looking good, day!

Exhaustion.....

The last of our visitors left last night. This visitor had the unfortunate lot in life of being a Master Carpenter AND Shane's Step-dad. Unfortunate for him since the whole lower level of my house has been remodeled on his non-vacation/vacation.....extremely fortunate for us and our outdoor shower (this picture is before it was completely completed)....

My house looks awesome....it also looks messy, very, very, very messy, thus you will need to wait one more day before I start the onslaught a ridiculous amount of photos from our remodel (too bad I wasn't smart and took pictures beforehand so you could see the amazing awesomeness that is Kirk!!!! Honestly, I feel like I've stepped into a Pottery Barn with how crazy cool my entry way is. So here is your final warning to rest your eyes!!! So all in all a super fantastic, hoping for the cleaning fairies to come in the night, day!

Family History....

Buddy and I were invited on a multi-family hiking trip by his BFF, Not one to turn down.....well, basically anything, especially when it's with the aforementioned BFF, we joined him at the obsidian mines.....I think it was truly just a ploy to get some free labor off of the local neighborhood kids....

Buddy did his miner great-grandfathers proud with his obviously inherited awesome abilities with swinging a hammer (although, I'm going to believe that the great granparents are up there shaking their heads going "seriously, you want to do that for  FUN?????". Of course the boys had a blast exploring...

 and trying to set off avalanches.... Here they are right before they started pummeling rocks at the cliff above and beside me. Thank goodness I have the reflexes of a cat (OK, an ox) so I could literally run for the hills before the hills crashed on me...they of course thought it was hilarious!

They also had a great time dawdling....

Yep, that's them way back there. I actually got to the car and walked back to keep them focused. Turns out that when you get easily distracted by shining things when you're near an obsidian mine, you can't seem to walk two inches without stopping and exploring. Turns out that when you stop every two inches on a 2 mile hike your short jaunt turns into an ETERNITY! So all in all a super fantastic,  got to tell some stories about Papaw Huff and his awesomely missing his toes due to a coal mining accident, day!

Smoking guns.....

Buddy had a field trip today. They learned the important art of fishing....

Buddy mostly learned the important art of being a goober....

and the extremely important art of making the stinkiest fish chum....

Trust me, you are missing out not being able to smell the stench of this stuff. Nothing quite says odorific like sardines, tuna, squid, peanut butter and bread!!!! In other news, we've been renovating our basement to do vacation rentals out of. In other, other news, Buddy DCFS may be contacting us shortly about the child labor laws....

FYI- it looks really awesome and I will be posting a bum load of pictures when it is complete, so start resting your eyes now...you have been warned! In other, other, other news, contacts are a lot more difficult to place when you won't really open your eyes!

So all in all a super fantastic, needing an eye crowbar for Buddy, day!