Fun Summer Friday

I was chatting online with my cousin Gay early this evening and just talking about what was going on and catching up.  No later than 10 minutes into our conversation, we had set up to meet tonight and have dinner and whatnot! 

Gay and Aunt Kathy (my bad!) came up from Detroit to meet mom, Mrs. Rockwell, and myself at Bar Louie!! We absolutely love that place... frequent goers!  We knew all of the waiters and just laughed the entire night! We sat outside and ate appetizers for about 2 hours!  We had such a fun time . . . but didn't want the night to end, so... 

We went to the Banana Boat (the ice cream place)!  They serve ridiculously huge servings of ice cream... like a junior (which we all got) is 3 monstrous scoops of ice cream!  None of us finished ours because we had just eaten so much at Bar Louie, but enjoyed each others company.

I love last minute plans... almost as much as I love summer fun!! :-)

Fireflies

Last night, Adam, mom, dad and I went to get ice cream at the Banana Boat.  When we got home, mom wanted to have a fire, so dad got it all started up.  We somehow got to talking about fireflies when I had mentioned that I had never caught one!  Adam and I ran inside to get a Mason jar and out we went running and catching fireflies!! It was SO fun!! The first one I caught, well attempted to, I squished in the lid when I was closing the top!!  Oops!! The second one, I successfully got in the container, but when I lifted the lid to give him some air, I squashed that one between the lid too!! At this point I was starting to lose faith in my firefly catching abilities!! So Adam, being the professional that he is, took the jar and caught me a firefly (and was successful all the way around!)  After I had one living firefly, I was content!  We sat around the fire for a while then called it a night!! Firefly catching isnt as easy as its cracked up to be!! 

Golf

For Fathers Day last year . . . and this year, I gave my golfing father a 'coupon' that said I would go golfing with him!  He was so excited last year when he got it, but I never went with him - - - so I thought I would give it a try this year, telling him it expired in 364 days, so last years was exempt!  So I thought I woulud actually give him his gift this year. . . 

This morning

Me - "Whatcha doing today Dad?"

Dad- "Oh, I dont know, what are you doing?"

Me- "Going golfing with you?!"

Dad- {lights up} "REALLY?! I have to run a few errands, I will be right back. . .  DONT CHANGE YOUR MIND!"

A few hours later, there we are. . . out on the golf course with my new clubs from Aunt Kathy!

I hope he enjoyed it!! :-)

Car

Remember when I ran into a wire last October??  Well, you cant tell anymore!!  My amazing Uncle Dean came into town for the Estate Sale and when he had a free minute, he fixed my car!!  He did an AMAZING job!! You cant even tell there was a HUGE dent there!!  He also fixed my passenger side lock because it wouldn't work with the clicker or the button . . . it had to be personally locked or unlocked!  When he was finished, he called me outside (and at this point, I didn't even know he was working on my car) so I go out and there is my car. . . perfect!! The first thing I said was, "Thats impressive!!"  I was  - - - still am, so excited!!

Estate Sale

G-Dog sold his house this summer when he was home and we had the huge job of cleaning it and selling everything in the house!!  We worked like dogs getting ready for the garage sale which was the last weekend in June.  We just got rid of junk at that sale. . . but after that was over, it was time to switch gears and get ready for the big Ken Daly Estate Sale! Aunt Kay and Uncle Dean came in to help with the sale which was a huge help and the Schluslers really helped by doing a little of everything!  It was 3 days long and we put about 15 days into setting up, pricing, staging, etc!  The sale was a success and was worth it to help out G-Dog!  He already went back to AZ which made us all sad, but he is enjoying the HOT weather! We miss him already! 

College Friends

A few weeks ago, my friend Jennifer came to visit me from Chicago.  I was so excited to see her since it had been about 2 months since we left school!  She came up on a Wednesday night and stayed until Sunday afternoon!  We had so much fun being crazy together!  Thursday, we just hung out, relaxed a bit and had a fire with smores at night (see pictures above).  Friday, we woke up and drove to Fenton to the lake.  We stopped by Quiznos to get lunch and then off to lay in the sun!!  Saturday, we went shopping and just hung out around good ole Flint Town!!  Sunday, we woke up and went to church and then Jennifer had to leave and get back home for the Cubs game!!  It was so nice to see her and hang out with her all weekend!! :-)

No Blogs

Shortly after I got home from school, my wireless stopped connecting on my computer . . . hence the lack of blogs this summer!! I just let it sit for a while hoping my brother could fix it when he was home, but he didn't come home!  I called Linksys about 2 weeks ago to have them fix it but after an hour on the phone with them, they told me to call Dell.  I get on the phone and call Dell and speak with a very nice lady and she gives it her best shot for over 2 hours!!!  She can't figure out the problem . . . so she transfers me! I am on the phone with another nice guy for over an hour when he finally finds the problem!! Phew, my internet works again!!  I shut my computer off at night and in the morning when I went to turn it back on. . . it doesn't work again!!  I let it sit for another week because I didn't want to call and talk to Dell for another 3 hours, but today, I figured it was about time!! I was only on the phone for 10 minutes and the wonderful woman got it to work!! I  shut my computer off and it STILL works!!! YAY!!!