NEW FLOORS......................................

This is what has been going on in our house since last Wed. We moved all the furniture out of the kitchen, living room and dining room. Then we let the kids have fun writing all over the carpet with markers! Thursday morning the floor guys arrived and started the process of ripping up the carpet and linoleum and laying the hardwood!It looks so great, and hopefully they will be finished tonight!!!! I took the pictures of the progress on Friday, so now they are just about done with the kitchen and dining room and then they will have to go back and put all the molding on!!!!!!! Can't wait for everything to be back to normal!

I ADORE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a picture from my anniversary surprise to Gulf Shores two weeks ago! We celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary on 7-7-07! I did not expect anymore than a dinner out this year because Don's Mom passed away on May 29th. We had been back and forth to Florida twice in the last month and we were both physically and emotionally drained!


The week before our anniversary, we went out to dinner with our dear friends Kevin and Shellie(they also celebrate their anniv. in July, 18 years for them) and that is where the surprise took place! The men insisted we order dessert, even though that is something we rarely do. Shellie and I each agreed to share a piece of cheesecake with our sweet husbands!

When the waitress brought out the yummy dessert, their was a card for each of us. The inside poem said : Roses are red, and carnations are pink. I'd like to take you away; what do you think? They had also printed pictures of the condo we would be staying in for our long weekend away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were quite surprised that our two husbands had planned this little trip, told us in such a creative way and they had arranged where all the children(there are 7 between our two families) would be staying ! All that we had to do, was count the days until we left!!!!!!!

Now you know one reason why, I ADORE THIS MAN!!!

Thanks for 17 years Babe! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are a few more pictures from our Gulf Shores Getaway!!! We had such a relaxing time spending our days on the beach, but I think we enjoyed ourselves and laughed more as we took these pictures in the evenings! There is nothing better than a few days away with good friends!

Thanks Kevin and Shellie for the company, we had a great time and look forward to this being the first of many of the four of us and our four day anniversary getaway!