Amazing Grace

Truckerman rented the movie Amazing Grace. It was a pretty good movie I was really surprised.

I am not a big fan of the hymn "Amazing Grace". There are many reasons for this and I am not going to go there as to why but I bet you could probably guess the main reason.

Anyhoo, what a little birdy told me something weird. Did you know that you can sing "Amazing Grace" to the theme song of Gilligan's Island? Yup it is true you can sing it to that song.

There is another song you can sing it to, House of the Rising Sun.

busy times

I have had to chop off my hair. I'm not overly happy about it but the perm fried my hair all the way to the roots. So it is short in the back and longer in the front but I have to use hair products to keep it from frizzing. By the evening my hair is standing on end.

On the weekend the boys and I went to my family's for my aunt and uncle's 25 anniversary party and for Father's Day. Truckerman could not go because he had to stay at home and work. He is now driving tow truck but is not right now due to his back. We had a blast there and saw people that we hadn't seen in a long time.

Unfortunately I forgot my camera so I don't have pictures to show. I have to get the pictures from my mom but it will have to be later in the summer after the boys go camping with my parents.

This Friday is the boys last day of school and then Saturday Truckerman is taking them to my parents to go camping for a week. He is then staying the weekend at his dad's and then he is going to a preaching workshop for three days. So I am all by my lonesome. Next Friday we are going camping for 5 days with Truckerman's dad and his girlfriend. I am really looking forward to it because I have been really busy and am needing a nice break away from noise and everything else city related.

birthday and parade, full day

Some of these photos are from earlier this month. Here the boys decided to have a lemonade stand and they made $14. The funny thing was people would come over to just put money in their jar. So Repete says, "We don't even have to have anything to drink out here." Truckerman's response, "That would be begging and we don't do that."


Repete finally has decided that he can ride his new big bike from grandma and grandpa.

We had Pete's Birthday party today. We decided to go to the park for a couple of hours and we invited the whole class. NEVER AGAIN!! Some parents we had to phone and have them finally come and pick their children up. ERR!! The one I understand because he was stuck in traffic, the other GRRR he had excuses that were pretty lame, he used us to babysit. Not impressed! That child was also rude, mean and also talked back to me. He is not aloud to my home ever again as long I am living.

I made a NASCAR car cake for Pete. He likes the 31 car so that is the colors I used and the 31 is on the top of the car. He liked it some of the kids questioned what it was.


Today the city where I work in had a parade and the company put in the parade their 1918 horse drawn hearse and their coach bus. We all rode in the bus and the boys stood up front and waved at the crowd. They were pretty happy about that. We decided to do our yearly family photo in front of the old hearse. Different, I know, but I think it is cool! Note the bad perm that I received, this is way better then it had been.

Cake is finished

I made a cake for Pete just like the one I made for Repete but with different colors.

The only thing was that I had to make 2 cakes to get it right. The first cake I made was a 8 1/2 X 11 and I was going to cut and stack it but that was a big mess. So I decided to do it the way that I had with Repete's cake and that is with 2 loaf pans and then stacked and cut.

So hopefully Pete likes it and all of his friends.

Wow am I Bored!

I am at work and I am BORED!!!

2 of our staff members are at a service, the manager is on an errand run and I am here maning the building and phone with nothing to do. :-P

I made the mistake of not putting mousse in my hair this morning. I have a giant puff ball of hair on the top of my head. Not attractive what so ever.

Tonight I have to bake and ice a cake for Pete's birthday party tomorrow. He wants a NASCAR car cake like his brothers. OY!! :-S

Tomorrow I have to be at work at 7 am to let some people in the building. There is a parade tomorrow and the funeral home is where it starts and where the command center will be. I will bring the boys with me so they can watch the parade.

After that I have to high tail it home to get ready for the birthday party. We are having it at the park so the kids can run and there is less cleaning to do. Unfortunately I am not sure as to how many people are going to be there. Most of the parents had not responded yet their children have told Pete that they were coming. It shall be interesting.

playing in the dirt

We went to Canadian Tire to get some flowers and a new clothes line.

Well we came home with the flowers but not the clothes line. We just could not find one. Oh well, we will just find one later at a different store.

We also found lots of other things that we never intended on buying other things but man what a deal we got.

We needed a new container for the boy's toys and we were planning on buying one and it was on sale so we of course bought it. And then Truckerman found rollerblades for cheap. So we bought Pete a pair for his birthday. The were originally $130 and we got them for $30,
I think that that was a pretty good deal. So also got Repete a pair as an early birthday present even though his birthday is not until September. We also bought Truckerman a pair for Father's Day. So when we got home the three of them put them on and went rollerblading with the neighbor boys.

We also found a set of junior golf clubs and bag for $30. The boys will have to share them for now but now they can go golfing with dad and grandpa when we are at the lake.

The boys and I got the plants into the front flower bed. Now I just need to get my planters from Truckerman's dad's barn so I can have a nice looking yard and make it seem more like home.

We have the camp site booked for the weekend before and the 3 days of July 1 along with Truckerman's dad's site. It shall be nice. We did not got out camping last summer so this will be a nice break. We all really enjoy camping.

The boys and I are going home to my parent's for the Relay for Life and we are going to Truckerman's dad's for one night and we will bring home some of our gardening supplies and then we are going back again to go to my aunt and uncle's anniversary party so we will bring home some camping supplies and then the next weekend Truckerman is going to a Preachering Workshop so he will stop at his dad's and pick up some more stuff.

Some days I really wish we had the truck to haul things with other then cars. But I am just glad that we have what we have.

nice evening

Tonight we had a couple over for supper and we had a very nice evening. D (the husband) is a pre-sem student and will be going into the sem this fall. I had met him twice and his wife just the once and with him helping Truckerman with his Greek this past year and us (mainly me) not knowing well, many of the pre-sem guys, we invited them over.

We had a very nice BBQ and dessert. Plus we had a very nice visit. J (D's wife) and I got to talk and we both have some of the same fears of being a sem wife and also a pastor's wife. Unfortunately she created some other fears about sem life that I did not have before because I did not know. OY!! Maybe living in a bubble would be the best thing for me. I am doubting myself already and Truckerman isn't even there yet. I am scared of a lot of things to do with this area of our life together and I am scared that I am not good enough for what God and sem are looking for out of me.

Long weekend

I have had 2 busy weeks with work, working over time every day starting last thursday and then because I had started early yesterday and had worked through lunch I took off early and went and had a massage.

I am officially sore that it feels like I have a sunburn on my back but the nice thing is is that the knots are all loosened up.

I have the weekend off and I am so happy about that. Today we are going to the big mall (not by choice) for a birthday party that Pete is going to. And since it is on the other side of the city we decided that we would all go and wander since it would be silly to drive all the way home to sit for 1/2 an hour to turn around and drive back again. I can get my walking in today.

I am trying to figure out what to do for Pete's birthday party. He has been invited by all the boys in his class to theirs and he wants them all plus the 3 girls (a total of 9 plus Pete) to come. I am not about to rent a place for them all and I really don't want them all at the house and to meet at the park is risking the weather. What to do?!

He wants a NASCAR cake like I had made for Repete. I have a very busy week ahead of me. UGH!!