Tattoos

Ed and Dustin have been talking about getting tattoos for a while. Today was the day.


Dustin taking off the bandage.






Ed taking off his bandage.










This is Eds tattoo. It is 2KE (2K-Kaila, Kelli and E-Eddie)







This is Dustins. I think his looks like a planet.









The three boys with their tattoos. Eddies is fake!

Storms

We had storms this afternoon that produced hail, thunder, lightening and rain. This is the hail on the back deck












This was one of the biggest pieces of hail we had







The clouds before the storm started.

Painting, Cleaning, Snow and Fish Hooks???

The kids and I went to PA for Spring Break to help Mom and Dad with the painting and cleaning of their new house, (pictured here). They had a lot of the painting done, but still more to do.









Peg and Jay arrived on Saturday and we painted the green bedroom and then they painted the hallway while I worked on painting the kitchen cabinet doors.











Mom did alot of cleaning, like the bathroom.











Dad had most of the kitchen cabinet doors off when I got there, but we still had more to take off. I think there were 31 doors and 8 drawers that needed painted.









On Saturday night Peg, Jay and I went to Shelley and Randys to visit and have a drink.

Shelley, what are you doing to Jay? Must be some sort of welcome to Clarion ritual!





Peg signed Mom up for facebook and it took several of them to figure out how to put her picture on there!









Group shot at Shelley and Randys that we sent to Ed. He stayed in Georgia.











Marty, Dad and Jay having a drink on the back porch. This must have been before the SNOW fell!

Judy and Marty brought dinner on Sunday, spaghetti, meatballs and broichle (not sure of the spelling, but it is the rolled meat with garlic in it). It was soooooo good!


Marty made a front loader out of legos and gave it to Eddie.


We headed back to Georgia on Thursday, but not before and early morning trip to the ER to remove the fishing hook from my finger that I picked ip from the carpet. Not sure where it came from. That is my excuse for spelling errors for the next few days!!

Basement Update

The basement is really coming along. We anticipate being done within the next week.

The counter tops for both the bar and Eds office came in this week and were installed. The tap for the keg was also installed




This is the counter top in the bar area. The sink is also installed, although not plumbed yet.










The front of the bar. Ed is planning to stain it today. He sanded it down last night to get it ready









The game room. We were able to put the kids pool table back in this room with the piece of carpet and the game console fit too!










The theater room, a very popular room with everyone! Ed got some more James Bond posters for in there, some from Cousins Shelley and Randy and some that he bought.






The TV and components. The girls have already had two sleep overs with friends to watch movies and play the Wii that we moved down there too.

Basement Update

Some parts of the basement are finished! I cleaned out my sewing room last week and wiped down everything. It had a nice coating of drywall dust on it. I can start to sew again!






We started to move some of the furniture into the "man cave".









More pictures of the man cave. We are still waiting for the counter top to come in for the cabinets.








The exercise room is finished and we have started to work out in it again!







The bathroom is also finished! I bought some blue towels and accesories to go in there.

Eddies Boy Scout Crossover

Each of the families brings a dessert to share. The theme of the ceremony was The Great Outdoors. This is the cake that I made for the theme.








Eddie crossed over into Boy Scouts last night at his Blue and Gold Banquet. He was very excited about this next step in Boy Scouts. He was one of three boys who chose to go the next step.

He got to carry the American Flag in the opening flag ceremony.





Here, Ed and I are removing his Cub Scout neckerchief and the colors on his shoulders before crossing over the bridge.








This is the bridge that he crossed over. A tradition is for each boy who crosses over to put their name on the bridge somehow. Eddie did a leathercraft circle with his name on it. It is hanging on the "down ramp" on the right side of the bridge.





After he crossed over the bridge, Boy Scouts from his new troop put new shoulder colors on and a new neckerchief and then he shakes hands with the boys and the leaders. The person shaking Eddies hand is his new Cubmaster. The other two men are his other leaders.

He is very excited about beginning this new experience. His first meeting is tomorrow night and he is going camping in a few weeks with them.

First, Third and Last

Eddie placed third (hence the third in the title) today in the Boy Scout Pinewood Derby. He got a trophy, ribbon and his car was also voted most unusual.









This is right after the presentation of awards










Kelli had a gymnastics meet this morning.








She placed first (hence the first in the title) in all her events.

I bet you are wondering what the last is for. Well......

Today was Kellis last gym meet. She is retiring.

Today was Eddies last Pinewood Derby. He is moving to Boy Scouts and they do not do Pinewood Derbys.