Fun in the Sun, Chicken Dinner Packets and our New Door for the Ranch Room!! This was our Thursday!

This was the last day of swimming lessons for the quads. I missed all the others but made it to this one! Summer and I rolled out and headed over to the aquatic center and actually arrived before they did. It was fun to watch them. 

Of the four, Amber tells me Logan has missed me the most.

While I have no favorite - she IS my Mini Me!!!

I am just drinking her in with my eyes!

I do believe she is getting prettier every time I see her!

They were really excited to see their Aunt Summer!

  

Summer arrived first and saved front row seats for all of us.

Mike's mom came to cheer them on so it was like a big party!

Harrison and Trystan......

Logan and I at snack time.

Aunt Summer had them all laughing and posing!

We needed this time of fun in the sun.

Summer stayed until she was just in too much pain and then went home to take some medicine before going in for her MRI at 7:00 this evening.

We swam, played and stood under the huge buckets that dumped water out on the ones standing below.

It was great fun!

We floated around the Lazy River, played 'IT' in the 3 foot pool by doing our fingers in a crab snapping imitation if we were IT, and having an under water tea party which I have done with all four of my children and now all of my grandchildren!

I especially loved watching Kailey today.

It was a year ago yesterday that she had open heart surgery.

What a difference a year has made. She is no longer frail and her heart no longer feels like it's beating out of her chest. We don't worry when she runs and gets tired.

This was a really good day to bask in the sun and rejoice in the Son!

I got home around 4:30 and Mother was still in her pajamas.

She was really tired today and rightly so. We ALL were!

I took my shower and then she took one and put on fresh pajamas.

I brought her a light dinner plate of cottage cheese, crackers, fresh fruit, blueberry cheese roll and a tea cake. She ate every bite!

I went about my business doing errands and cleaning house, doing laundry and preparing dinner.

I made Grilled Herb Chicken and Potato Foil Packs and they were delicious!!!

I cut the chicken up and added carrots to the recipe plus I used a LOT of fresh herbs from the garden.

Easy Peasy and OH, so GOOD!!!

Instead of cleaning today, I decided to redo the kitchen table area.

Tuesday, Ruth Ann and I shopped a few thrift stores and I found two chair covers for $7.98.

I already had the tablecloth so this was a win! WIN!!

I set the table with Tracy Porter Octavia Hill Collection plates I bought this spring at Goodwill.

Sometimes all it takes is a pretty corner spruced up and looking pretty to make my heart happy.

I'm packing away the Patriotic Decorations and hope to do some deep cleaning before I haul out all my sunflower collection for August 1st! It's only 49 days to September First! The sunflowers will be a prelude for fall!

Louis Dean stayed home all day with Mother but he didn't see much of her since she rested in her room all day long. She's reading the magazines Deanie gave me for her and seems to be in really good spirits in spite of being really tired.

Louis Dean worked on his music - he discovered some 'new' old Willie Nelson songs and worked on them before going outside where he set the door we are going to use as our front door on the extra room at the camper.

LD bartered a 30 pack of beer for it and it's solid wood!

The panels had Plexiglas in them which he took out and replaced with some nice plywood.

We are sanding it and getting it ready to paint but we will probably do that at the ranch when go back down there.

We had dinner and watched the season premier of Suits. Louis Dean is outside watering and spraying the French doors to distract me.

If I hurry, I can post this journal entry before midnight!