Our fun filled Sunday!

Sunday morning started out wonderful, as Bryce lost his 2nd tooth. It was wiggly for awhile, and he finally pulled it out. So now he has a big gap on the bottom of his mouth, as both teeth came from the bottom middle! He is too cute and growing up too fast. He came down with $1.00 this morning and was very excited!

About 1pm, we met my dad at the Trinity Cemetery in Reese with his splitter and split the huge pieces of wood that had been cut up. They filled our truck and my dads truck, and on the VERY last piece they were splitting, Adam's hand slid down in between the wood and the splitter, and down the arm went to split the wood. My dad was running the splitter and had NO idea his hand went down there until Adam yelled UP UP UP!!! My dad took it up, and Adam yanked his hand out. His finger had been crushed! THE VERY LAST PIECE!!! AHHH We wrapped it in napkin, hooked the splitter onto our truck and took off for home to change vehicles. We dropped Bryce off at Drew's friends house where Drew was at, and Adam and I were off to St. Mary's Med Express. The crushing happened about 3:20pm, and we didn't leave St. Mary's til about 7pm. He got a tetanus shot, and I think he said 4 x-rays. They numbed his finger because it was cut pretty bad, and he stitched that up with 7 stitches. He also broke the end of his finger. It's a clean break, but it goes on a diagonal at the very tip, even further down then his last knuckle. We stopped and saw my mom at the pumpkin farm where she is working for the season, where she told me my dad called her and was crying, because he was running the arm, and feels terrible. I do want him to know it was an accident and it is NOT his fault! We grabbed the boys, went home for them to shower, and I was off to get his medicine. Our prescriptions can only be filled at rite aids, so I took off to Caro. I found out the only rite aid pharmacy opened past 6:30pm is the one off 675 where we just were. So I was off to that one. Today we have to call a Plastic Surgeon to see what he wants to do about the broken tip off his finger. I don't see that they would just let it heal, because it seems like it would just hang there, but because of the trauma to his finger and the 7 stitches, it is so swelled up! I don't know how much sleep I got last night, but I know it wasn't much. I finally got Adam to climb into bed about 12:30am after falling asleep in the chair. Once he was in bed, I kept rolling over to see if he was sleeping, and waiting for him to punch me and tell me he needed another pain pill. I also kept looking at his finger and thinking this was all a bad dream! NOPE he woke up with a HUGE wrapped middle finger, so he looks like he is always flipping me off! LOL He has a great attitude about it, but gosh I feel so bad for him. He even went to work today until I call the plastic surgeon! What a trooper! I guess the 2 best things out of all this is that it WAS my dad running the arm and not Bryce who may have just kept going down when Adam yelled UP UP UP! And he broke the finger on his left hand, and he is right handed! I will spare you the picture I snapped before the Dr. came in b/c it's pretty gross, but I have a pretty cool 1 on my phone that isn't gross if anyone wants to see that. It's of the break! Please say an extra prayer for Adam today that he be strong when going to the plastic surgeon as I know he is going to play with that finger that is hurting so bad and that IF he needs surgery to put the bone back on, that all goes well with that. I of course will keep everyone UTD! Thanks guys!
Tootles
~SHERRI~

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y

HA!!!!! FINALLY! Drew's football team won their first game last night! 22-13! It was very exciting! I am learning how to put videos on here a bit, so on my "day off" tomorrow, I may attempt to put 1 of his tackles on! His name was announced 3 times for tackling! He was actually involved in 4 tackles, but only announced for 3...oh well! YEAH DREW!!! It was also parents night, so Adam and I walked on the field with him and were announced as well! That was their last home game. Anyways, I'll see what I can do about the video part tomorrow....we have too much to get done today! Just wanted to share with everyone that they finally won! We are now 1-4! Better then 0-5! WTG DREW!!!! WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!

Friends and family that are preggers

OK, so after being shocked with some friends blogs last night, I felt the need to ask for some prayer requests. I have a few family members and friends that are preggers and I just wanted them to know they are in our thoughts and prayers that all goes well. I'll start with family. Robin (Adam's sister) is due November 17th with a baby girl. Their first child!
My cousin Courtney is pregnant not sure about when she is due, but I know she still has awhile to go. My 43 year old cousin Kimmie is pregnant with a boy. She is due March 20th. They have a daughter already and all is great with this boy, being that she is "older" they had an amnio and everything looks normal. I should also tell you all that they waited so long because she had some sort of female cancer (although they kept that a secret) so the chances of her getting pregnant was slim to none and now they are expecting number 2! I am sure my mom will know what female problems she had but I don't remember!

Now onto friends.....my best friend growing up is expecting number 2 in 6 weeks! They have an adorable little guy already! The family I used to babysit for, Dawn and Joe are expecting another child! They have 2 amazing sons already! Then for the shocker that made me want to write this post.......the couple that bought our house in Richville just over 2 years ago already have a cute little girl and will soon hear the sounds of 6 more little footsteps in their house! They found out they were pregnant about a month ago, then went for an ultrasound on Tuesday and found out she has 3 in the oven! TRIPLETS!!! AHHHHHH They will have 4 babies under the age of 15 months when these babies are born!

CONGRATS to you all, and please know your in our thoughts and prayers for happy and healthy pregnancies, deliveries and babies! IF I forgot anyone, I am sorry! Everyone reading this, please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers as well!

(I am thinking instead of looking for another job I should start doing day care again! LOL)

Tootles
~SHERRI~

Bryce's road rash

Friday night we went to my parents for dinner and to visit. My parents had not seen Bryce ride his bike without training wheels, so I took his bike and helmet with us. I had also loaded up some big rocks we didn't want from the old landscaping in our front yard, so my mom could put them in her rock garden. While we were unloading them and with only little room in their driveways, Bryce got on his bike. Before I knew it, he was down and crying! I scooped him up right away, and carried a crying Bryce into the house to see what he had done. I kept telling him he was ok, because I really wanted to make sure he'd get back on! He did a good job this time and has quite the road rash! We of course joked that he hurt Grandpa RaRa's new black top, which put a smile on his face. He kind of forgot about it until we went to cut wood today and I had to wrap it. Tonight at dinner, I noticed he had been itching it and it had dried blood on it, so before his shower and before it was all cleaned up, i snapped 2 pictures! I am very happy to report that he did get back on his bike and proved to RaRa, KayKay, Uncle Scott, Aunt Tasha, Devyn and Dustin that he can ride without training wheels! I am extremely proud of him for trying again! Here are the pics of his owwie!




Tootles
~SHERRI~

Day 3 of my big project...and a confusing sign

Ok, so I met up with Dawn and some good friends we made at the party store for lunch today. 1 of them asked us about the sign they saw at the credit union today....hmmmm no clue. He told us what it said, and that of course got us all talking. From what we have gathered, Mike Trombley (previous owner of the party store and current owner and landlord of the credit union) put a sign up and is looking into either moving the store to the corner where the credit union is currently, when they move across M46...OR...he is looking into buying the store and re-opening it! Problem with him moving it is as follows.....the credit union will not be moved into the new building until June 1st (they haven't even broke ground on the new building yet.) He'd have to put gas tanks in the ground which is quite expensive. The liquor license got stripped from Norm and is currently with whomever buys the store, and to get a liquor license in Tuscola county could take upwards of 2 years...meaning opening a store with no beer (not gonna happen!) I am NOT sitting around waiting til July to get back to work and neither is Dawn. I most certainly would enjoy working for Mike IF he's going to re-open in the old store and get the ball moving soon...but I just can't stay on unemployment (well I could) for that long...I'd go crazy and thats too long to go with a minimal amount of money every week! So here is the sign that was just put out in front of the credit union last night. (Mike was caught by a few friends putting it up)

Now onto a lighter note. I didn't get any yard work done til Adam got home. I had a few errands to run after lunch and I picked the boys up from school then did home work. Once Adam got home and while dinner was cooking, we went full force in the front yard. We finished leveling it out and put rocks around the perimeter. We also moved the rest of the huge rocks from the front yard so the lawn can be mowed. I then planted the 2 mums (in REESE colors) I ordered from Dawn's daughter in my new flower bed. I am so ready for flowers now, and want to find a cute 5 foot or 6 foot tree that cascades down. I heard a cascading peach tree is pretty, but who knows. Adam is also going to take the 2 big rocks we inherited from his grandpa Stoney into the new flower bed as the center pieces! I love the way this turned out and am very proud of it! I put a lot of hard work and sweat into this, and am very glad to be done! PHEW! Hope you all think its a great as I do! I'll post 1 before picture that was already posted so you can see what it used to look like! UGH I never did find the well either, so hopefully I don't dig too deep while planting flowers and hit it!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BEFORE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ hidious!



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AFTER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Day 2 of my big project

So I went outside and started working on my big project about 9am to try to get a full day in. WOW did it warm up fast. Anyways, I took a breakfast and a lunch break but basically worked full force all day. I had to quit about 3pm, because I was way too hot! My face was red and I was sweating like crazy! I may try to get another hour in while the boys are at football, just because I am about half way thru the hardest part, but I may just wait til tomorrow afternoon. I still haven't found the well or a body (LOL) but I did find a huge stump from what must have been a bush. Looks like they just decided to cover it up...UGH! I tried to get it out, but Adam is going to have to hack away at it a bit! Now with all the rocks spread all over the yard and a huge dirt pile, it really does look like a grave in our front yard! AHHH Anyways, here are some newer pictures of my progress.


The rope is my guide for the new flower bed! I did start digging up the grass but wow thats tough work!



The remaining mound and my rope for the new flower bed!



Another view of my new flower bed and the mound!



UGH the bush stump I found and dug around but can't get out! It's right in the middle so I was a bit leery thinking the well is near too!

More after another days work! Hopefully this is only a 1 week project, but i don't know. I can't work on it all day again until Friday, since tomorrow I am meeting some friends for lunch and Thursday I am working picture day at Bryce's school.


Tootles
~SHERRI~

This morning before school

The boys were goofing around with Molly this morning before they got on the bus for school, so i snapped a few pictures!

Drew and Molly playing on the chair!

Bryce and Molly playing on the couch!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

my big project

So since I am unemployed, I decided that I was sick of looking at the huge ugly mound in our front yard. This morning, I was just going to clean it up, pull all the weeds, and fix the rocks that had fallen down and had weeds growing up in between the rocks, but after starting just that, I decided that more needed to be done. Since I ain't working, I have nothing but free time on my hands! LOL I called Adam to find out what he thought, because we are unsure if the well is hidden under this thing. He thought it would be fine, just to be a bit careful! I figure I started about 11am, took about a 30 minute lunch break, chatted on the phone a few times in between, had to jump the car because I had worn the battery down listening to it while working but otherwise I worked til about 4pm when the boys got home. These are my before and after pictures for today. I decided I am going to take down all the rocks around this thing (wow there are even some buried) then use them as the perimeter of a beautiful flower bed like at my mother-in-laws! I am sure this will take me a bit, but I hate the mound that was there before. I was talking to Dawn from my work today and I told her what I was doing. Her and I joked that it would look like I was burring a body...I said, oh my what if that is what is under this mound?!?! Scary! LOL Anyways, here is my progress. I will take a picture after another full day of working on it. I wanted to take Bryce bike riding tonight while the other 2 go to football practice, plus lots of shows start tonight, so I worked the afternoon and called it quits. Plus it was hurting my back!

Before I started.......my ugly mound that was here when we moved in!

another before!

After about 5 hours of work!

Another after 5 hours of work picture!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

my goofie kids

Today the boys decided to get into some gear and shoot foam things at each other around the house! 1 guy was the shooter and the other was the target...a moving target at that! They had a blast and wanted me to get their pictures so here they are! It was funny!

BRYCE

DREW

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Our weekend

Friday night started out with the Reese Football game VS Vassar! The good guys won 21-13....hmmm maybe it was 20-13...Gosh it's hard to watch when I don't understand football! I go there to chat and people watch...LOL. After the game I picked up my bestest friend from work...Dawn and we were off to Joe's bar! We got bombarded with questions about what happened at the store of course, but after that kind of settled down, we had a BLAST! We got lots of drinks bought for us, b/c we are unemployed...LMAO!! It was funny. We left about 11:30pm to get Kirbie K from her house since she turned 21 at midnight! We walked into her family all being at the bar and lots more drinks! I bought Kirbie a gross shot, LOL...bad Sherri...but it was funny! Kirbie was fine, but Dawn on the other hand was not. Kirbie, Dawn and 1 of Kirbie's friends did a shot of tequila and that put Dawn over the top....AHHH Anyways, after partying with Dawn on numerous occasions in the 4 years that I've known her...I personally have never seen her pray to the porcelain God at the bar...UNTIL Friday night...ohhh that poor girl! I felt so bad for her, because she just was not feeling well at all. Poor Shark (her hubby)....anyways, we had an amazing night HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRBIE!!!

The Birthday Girl! Love ya girl

The Birthday girl, Dawn and 1 of Kirbie's friends in the background!

Dawn's best friend Saundra came out to party it up with us!

Saturday Bryce had a soccer game in Frankenmuth! I do believe Bryce scored in the first minute of the game! It was GREAT!!! He was so excited. I think this was their hardest game but yet the good guys came up on top! 3-2! YEAH BRYCE He loves soccer and sure puts his whole heart into it!

Awesome kick buddy! (amazing pic by "G" also)

Another great kick and great pic...love the fact that you got the ball in the pic also!

Bryce as goalie picking up a shot! Great job dude!

Drew had a football game at 3 in Vassar so after picking up a few groceries for taco salad, we ran home, made that quick, then were off to Vassar! Drew's team scored first making the score 6-0 but then the other team came back and scored 3 times! We lost yet another game! Maybe after loosing 3 games out of 3....they will be sick of loosing and really try next weekend. I will not be at the game b/c he plays in Clio at 9 and Bryce plays in Frankenmuth at 10! Anyways...GL Drew we know you guys can win a game!

Drew standing for the Pledge of Allegiance before his game started....wow he looks so grown up! I am so proud of him!

Drew and his good friend Jared!

Drew hiking the ball!

After Drew's game, we ran home quick, Drew jumped in the shower and we were off to Frankenmuth again for a get together at Robin and Tim's house. There were lots of kids so the boys had a great time! Daddy played baseball and football with all the kids! No one got hurt either, so that was a bonus...lol. Anyways, we got home about 11 and now today is a day to relax and cut up some wood...oh fun! The boys are also doing homework that they like to put off til the last day...turkeys!

Earlier in the week, I had taken Bryce into Reese to ride his bike without training wheels. I know he is late, but he just wasn't interested last summer and we were bad parents and didn't take him out this summer. The boys had gone with "G" and Papa to their friends cabin a few weeks ago, and Bryce wouldn't even try the 2 wheel bike for papa, so I knew we had to try! He also just got asked to go camping with a friend in a few weeks in Bay City and the friends mom said, "bring his bike" and I though UT OH! So we were off to parking lots in town. We met "G" at Trinity and after me barley starting him...he was OFF!!! He did amazing! He did fall a few times, just b/c the darn curbs ran out in front of him..LOL but nothing major. He sat for a few minutes and wanted right back on! The next day we took him to the HS parking lot to show daddy. I video taped and Adam showed him how to start! He did great! He is now a starting and stopping bike riding machine! He loved it too! "G" took a few pictures, so enjoy!

Mommy helping him get started when we first got there!

WOW look at me go! YEAH!

Thats all my up-dates Adam is off getting some more wood! (LOVE FREE HEAT!) lol

Tootles

~SHERRI~