June 3rd Week

Our week in a nutshell:
Tyler went on the Church Youth trip to Florida and doesn't get back until late this evening. He didn't even call me all week, not even once! So I can only assume that he had so much fun that he didn't have time to call me. I guess it's just part of that "growing up" thing. Danny was in town until Wednesday so we were lucky to get to visit with him a lot. He did a lot of relic hunting while he was here and found some cool stuff. Wish that Marilyn could have come! We got off track on the Star Wars movie-watching. So we still have not finished the last 2 movies. Tanner finished up Sports Camp and defeated a Star Wars video game - he was proud of course. We went to the little farmer's market down the highway and I made my first ever fried green tomatoes. I cleaned and cleaned on the house, and managed to hit the gym a good bit - although I did eat doughnuts one evening - lots of them. We watched the 2nd Underworld movie with Danny, then again with Clay. It's pretty good for a monster movie. Rusty had a tooth to break so he had to go to the dentist. Turns out he has to have a root canal and one tooth pulled in the back. He is famous for NEVER taking medicine EVER. But the night after that dental visit he was hurting bad enough that he decided he'd try the medicine the dentist gave him for the pain. And boy did I have a fun time watching him get loopy hehehe.
We finally returned to working on the bathroom and have made excellent progress. I got the walls and ceiling painted on Monday. Then Rusty installed the new light fixture and......(drumroll)...... our new bathroom mirror! Woohoo! Yippee! I think I'm more excited about that mirror than I am anything else. (When we bought the house, the mirrors in both bathrooms are so small and high up that I can only see myself from chin up - now I have a huge mirror that I can see in from waist up.) But now we just still have the little details left - trim work or chair rail on top of the beadboard, finishing sealing around the bath tub (we still aren't pleased with that yet), baseboards, light switch covers, and that's about it! It's been a long journey. For anyone interested in seeing the whole process from start to finish, I made an online slideshow of it (surprised?) However, it is probably about 100 pictures long so don't say I didn't warn ya. The link is http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/trgardner/slideshow?.dir=/b34b&.src=ph
Now to catch up on some photos:


Tanner and best buddy at
Sports Camp







Our good friend Danny :

My excellent paint job, my new bathroom light, and my incredibly awesome bathroom mirror!

I'm going to start trying to post an old picture now and then, just for the fun of it. Kind of a "blast from the past" photo opp. So, for the very first blast from the past, I thought I'd post an old picture of US. This is Spring of 1991 right before we got married, but after Rusty had cut his hair to get married.

Until next week........