todays pics

sunday chill

it is a bit chilly today. we went to the mother & child luncheon at church (i helped serve the ladies). we took juju's grandma "buscha". my mom, aunt AJ and Rusty were all in attendance. we came home and took a nap and kept going on the housework. it seems lately i can't keep up with the laundry. i will have to try and do more loads per week. as cooter's clothes get bigger the bigger percentage he takes. it didn't help that we had no pampers, (his night-time brand) and he peed the bed every night. Pampers are the shizzzizle.
the house is boarded up as all the contractor's stuff is in the house as he had to empty his trailer to move his brother this weekend. CRAP! i stopped on Friday night and saw they had begun rebuilding the sun porch. i am very excited about it, it is gonna be sweet.

poker on Thursday played out like this.
13 guys + 1 re buy = 140 bucks.
1st place - 80 bucks - "4 time john"
2nd place - 40 bucks - "hanging chad"
3rd place - 20 bucks - "Rambo Phil"
after next week we are going to have to change the day to Wednesday, i am contemplating having the game only once a month through the summer as i have tons of stuff to going on and really can't "host" the game. (or at least shouldn't)
Friday was to bed early as angelfood ministries was sat morning. got up at 3:30 am and my dad picked me up. went to the goat's and got the truck. we has 140 some "units" and 60 some "specials". we have not had that many orders in quite awhile. the truck was pretty full. we picked up a bunch of orders from a church who no longer does the program. i came home and got a call from my friend "D.C. Steve" in from...guess where. we had the grand opening of a new roller coaster in our town and Steve and his girlfriend were one of the high bidders for the "inaugural run" the proceeds went to juvenile diabetes. you can take a "virtual ride" here http://www.waldameer.com/RavineFlyer2.html

it was great to see him and meet his old lady. i met them at his parent's house with cooter. the little one was abnormally bad. he wanted to run, but i couldn't let him as steve's parent's house on in no way "baby proof". there is breakable stuff everywhere. i watched pics of their trip to Italy between chasing cooter. i wish i could have hung out and chatted over a few beers, but was only there about an hour as cooter was CRAZY! if you are reading this steve, i apologize for cutting it short. i would have met up with you later if i wasn't up at 3:30 am and Juju was feeling better. we came home took a nap and got up about 7 pm. watched the backyardigans for the 1000th time and then went to bed about 11.

Today is "T" Day

Well, it's been awhile. some my fault and some out of my control. our computer was down for a week and Juju had a project due that was hogging the PC after the fix.
Today is "T" Day. Termination Day. Cooter's birth parents rights were involuntarily terminated today. Juju had to go to court as both birth parents are M.I.A. The family court judge wants to make sure he has a home to go to, so one of us had to go and let her know we intend to adopt him.
this is how it went....... do you now have custody of Cooter?...yes. have you ever been contacted by either of his birth parents?....no. Do you intend to adopt him 30 days after this court proceeding?......yes. the end. a year and a half for that.............. WTF.
our adoption hearing is June 19th. that is the day he will be ours. (barring anything unforeseen) now cooter is considered an orphan. (no parents) 30 days after becoming an orphan he can be adopted. i need a damn time machine. lol
we had supper at juju's sister's house tonight with the goat and cooter was getting grouchy so we had to cut it short and bring him home. he got a bubs and right to sleep. sweet.

house pics before and after

before and after....so far

Here are the pics from tuesday. wed was tarpaper upstairs wall sheathing and more plumbing.

I added some original pics to this set so you can see the massive change. it is hard to believe.