Around the House

We have been doing little things here and there around the house. I love our home and LOVE doing things to it!
One project lately is that Ronnie has been fixing some cracks in our canoe.

We went up to Ocala two weeks ago and picked it up.
My Uncle has been storing it for us there since 2009! Ronnie redid the fiberglass and whatever else had to be done and is now ready to paint it! He is using an aircraft polyurethane paint that will glide like a dream in the water! Bright red too! :o)) I can't wait to see it painted!
He and Kyle are going on a kayaking/canoeing trip this weekend with my Dad! They are cruising the Econlockhatchee River and will camp, riverside, wherever they stop for the night!

I cleaned and re-arranged my front porch! Yes...front! Lisa and I sat out there and had coffee the morning after I completed it! Don't get me wrong..I MUCH prefer my back patio but this particular morning the back porch was a wreck and we didn't want to be out there. (That was prior to Mother's Day when my boys helped me clean and re-arrange the back porch).

The same weekend that we went to pick up our canoe, we also got a bunny! "Snowball" (as Kyle so creatively named her) was staying in our Xlarge dog crate until we ordered her a new home! I found this fabulous "bunny condo" on Ebay for a great price. Ronnie put it together for me...and voila! It is beautiful!

My flowers are blooming beautifully out front!

Kyle bagged up all the mulch I had raked out of the bed...we are wanting to redo the mulch in that bed and give it some shape / delineation. I am so thankful that Ky did this for me! (He did gripe and I did pay him, but...still, lol)

So...that's some of what we've been up to!

A Weekend of non-stop FUN!

We had an INCREDIBLY busy weekend this weekend!
It started off with Logan's 10th birthday at Fiddler's Green Ranch!
It was so much fun! It was a beautiful place and the kids went horseback riding.

birthday girl!!

Alli was hot and tired ;) I thought this pic was so cute!

lol

Kyle finally got to go!He had to wait until all the girls went first :o)

no hands, Mom!

the trees were so pretty...they reminded me of Mount Dora.

Alli & Evan rode together-SO CUTE!

this pic is fuzzy but I loved it too much to delete! Alli was giggling ;)

"hi Lisa!"

LMBO! Evan was REALLY mad when he had to get down, LOL!

so he rode with Madi too :o)

Next we did presents!

this is what we got Logan. I had never heard of Teacup Piggies...but thought they were just adorable!

and we HAD to get a lil outfit for her too!

Beth told me I had better not put this pic of this cake on here, lol. She said she has good pics when it was first done-before it was transported in the car and sat in the heat :) She made the cake herself and it was yummy!

can you tell how hot it was?

while everyone else was eating cake and chitty chatting.. Ronnie decided to go take the horse to the grass to graze. LOL, he is so funny :)

this pic is fuzzy but I couldn't toss it b/c he is telling the horse to look at the camera! LOL!!

After the birthday party we went out to my Uncle Tom's to get our canoe. Their house is like a kid heaven! Kyle ended up staying the night! Aunt LeAnn's sister came into town with her husband, 5 kids, two dogs and a number of cats as well! They are in their RV traveling from South Florida to Alaska (!!) for a permanent move!

Kyle was in the pool within 5 minutes of us getting there.

and the trampolines!!

whoo hoo!

playhouse/fort my uncle made for Leighton.

barn, complete with loft he made for Joey & Jimmy. (The rabbits live in there too, lol)

my beautiful Leighton :o)

"See you later!" 

meet "Snowball". The bunny Ky brought home :) (I will post all about her in a separate post).

After we got home Sunday evening, Nancy and the kids stopped by and played for a little bit:

COUSINS!!

I am EXHAUSTED from the weekend! I drove from Mt. Dora to Altoona, back to Mt. Dora then to Ocala then to Leesburg then Mt. Dora--that was Saturday....on Sunday I drove from Mt. Dora to Leesburg to Ocala to The Villages to Ocala to Mt. Dora. yowzers! Good thing my car gets great gas mileage!