too much fun what's that mean?

i am aware that i look nasty in this picture, i just love it because we had been running around like little kids and i have so much fun with this boy, and i love this picture because it captured that! =)

I really wanted to get on here and record all the fun i was able to have on my four day weekend before monday settled in and i forgot about everything! My bosses both had business trips last week so they left on Wednesday and I got off around 230. I love getting off early and being able to go for a run and get all my errands done and be home before anybody else even gets off work, and i miss allllll that traffic. That night at small group we got with our kids and had them write 5 year letters to themselves. I wrote one when I was a senior and just got got mine last week and it was so neat and hilarious to see what i thought was going to happen and the person i was then and how i was feeling back then. I thought since they just graduated this would be a good time for them to do it. We later went out for ice cream with all of them and then headed home so i could watch the season finale of one tree hill, ha. anyway, thursday I had nothing to do! i LOVE IT! i went for a run and then headed to the pool with jenny. it was such a perfect day, i was so happy to be spending it all outside. i swam like a little fish and dove off the diving board more times than i can count. i really think i belong in water more than on land. we, as always, had small group that night, and it was so nice and relaxing. we just all grilled out and talked. it was a laid back small group night, just everyone mingling and watching basketball.

friday i decided i had been laying out and running too much so i just slept in and got up slowly, got up and did some stuff around the house and then went to the mall for 4 hours. i love window shopping. i left with nothing after that long, but it was so nice to just to go look. i came home and did more cleaning. i realized if i didnt have a job my house would be clean all the time. it really is only clean when im off, or people are coming over so i make time. we are messy. anyway, jenny called and wanted me to go to the pool so i did and swam like a fish some more! it just made me want to go home so bad and swim with my little tara in the pool the whole time. she loves swimming. after that i went home and got ready and justin and i had a little double date with josh and sara at ruby tuesdays and then came home to watch smoky and the bandit. justin now wants a cb radio and it trying to think of a good handle for himself. saturday i did absolutely nothing. i didnt even know what to do. it was my third saturday in a row so by this point i was out of things to get done. i had a bad headache all day so i didnt want to really be out in the heat so i spent most the day inside talking to good friends on the telephone. later i hit up hobby lobby and then headed to kyle's football game to work the gate like the good little gate keeper i am. after the game we went to friday's for a late night fried food meal, thats always good for ya. i think this is becoming a bit of a tradition. i like traditions

me and chase making funny faces at the football game

so sunday finally came and i realized my weekend was now over. it was very rejuvinating and i feel recharged. i enjoy that feeling. ok so, sunday...we did church and then a run, and then i went to the pool with sara while josh and justin did some random errands, boy type stuff, and then they came and swam with us, and then we all went and hit golf balls, and later had dinner, and then... we got rid of them because it had been a Manny/Tysinger weekend and im sure they are sick of us by now.

overall, i had such a blast being off for 4 days and i cant wait til im off for 6 days in pensacola with so many people i love! only 10 more days til we are all together!

also, my nephew tanner is in his first golf tournament today! haha, i love it, you have to be 5 to be in it and he i barely 5, so he is in! bubba is his caddy, haha, so cute, i soooo wish i was there to see this! good luck tannerboy!

summer weekends

What a beautiful wonderful weekend! It was absolutely perfect weather, and packed full of fun. Friday night I got off early, PTL, and justin and I went to indy. Justin's friend Aaron Pelsue, of the aaron pelsue band, was having a birthday party at his house so we headed over there first thing. It was just mingling and hammock swinging, and then later that night they had a little bonfire thing and everyone swam, i love nighttime swimming! at one point i had to run inside to use the bathroom and on the way in ran straight into the screen door, that i was not aware of, and you could TOTALLY NOT SEE! i swear, you really couldnt see it. it wasnt that i wasnt paying attention, it was invisible! anyway, that was embarassing. Saturday we were supposed to go out on the boat but my tummy hurt real bad so I took a little nap and when I woke up we went downtown, and shopped at H&M and ate, and went and saw Oceans 13. It was a pretty good movie. Its pretty much just like the other's, so nothing phenomenal or new, but entertaining, and Brad is beautiful. I just like those movies. Afterwards we headed back to Justins uncle's house and he grilled out and we ate and then actually left that night to come back home.

Sunday came too quickly I feel. All day I thought it was Saturday, and that I still had the next day to do stuff, but I didnt. Luckily this week is only a three day work week for me, so Ill get some more down time. Not that everyday isnt down time for me =) Anyway, I loved sunday, so nice and relaxing and fun. I woke up, went for a run, and then layed by the pool for 4 hours and got nice and tan. Justin was at the Red's game and when he got home we went to a graduation party for one of our high school girls, and then went to the Regan's for a cornhole tournament. It was a fun fun day!

So like I said, I do have two days off, and Im trying to find something to do with them, somewhere to go, I dont know really what Im thinking I want to do. I just want to take advantage of them. Now see, if I lived closer I would come home or visit one of you fine friends, however i live a plane flight away and that isnt feasible for me. Tear. Plus I will see most of you in two and half weeks anyway!

Oh yes, my little MB has a new neice. I think her name is Elizabeth MerryAnne. Cute.

Have a good week everyone! I hope its beautiful =)

flowers, football, graduations and birthdays

This weekend so so jam packed with fun! A little stressful at times, but for the most part fun, and worth the stress.

Friday night was Justin had told a friend he would help him paint his basement so we went over to Kevin and Audra's and i hung with the girls and the babies while he painted. Later on Shannon and I went to wal mart and left the kids with audra and carlee to bathe, and we got some flowers for my flower bed, which you will see later. We headed home that night and hung out together, something we never get to do on friday nights, be alone. i really enjoyed time with my jus!

Saturday was a crazy day! We had about a bagillion things to do and all had to be done before 100. We woke up around 8 and I started cleaning the house, and justin started in the yard. when i was done i went outside and pulled weeds and then we headed to home depot. We got some flowers and mulch there and then came home and i planted them! i was seriously so glad to have the patio and flowerbed alllll done. it just felt good to have a project that started LAST year, finally finished and so pretty. Its nothing extravagant, but its just right for our little house and for me and justin. We just love it, and couldnt wait til Sunday when we got to enjoy it finally. After we finished all that we got ready for the graduation parties we had to attend. We had one at 1 and another at 4 and the two were about 45 minutes away. We didnt leave til about 2 for the one party so we were late to it, but it was perfect timing because as soon as we were ready to leave that one it was 4, and we got to the next one and got to spend about an hour there until we had to leave. Let me just say, there was some goood cookin'. Really, there is nothing I love more than party food. Such good food, really good snacks, yummy desserts, party trays too; i mean its all fantastic!

We had to be at Anderson high School by 6 because Kyle's football game started at 7. Kyle started this football team this years as a ministry type thing. It was so neat to sit there and think, Wow, all of this, these 200 fans, these 40 players, these coaches, this is all happening because of Kyle's vision for this football team. They are called the Mt. Carmel FIRE and are considered a semi-pro football team. They have sponsors who support them, and off course, make money off the games as well. I worked one gate with Julie and Jenny worked the other. At the end of the night they had made more than enough money to cover what it costs to put the whole thing on. It was so cool! Justin happends to be the voice of the FIRE, he is our own little gene deckerhoff.
I was so happy for Kyle, and so proud of him. We had a good time at the game as well in our F-I-R-E shirts Julie and Jenny made us. They did score two touchdowns, but lost however. They played a well established team, and this being their first time in pads and everything, playing against somebody, with all of their team there together, it was better than expected. Afterwards we went to Fridays and ate, and Justin had happy birthday sung to him, again. Justin as of recent has thought birthdays are stupid and could care less if i recognize its his birthday or have a party for him. So I tortured him. Our highschoolers threw him a party, we had a cake at small group with candles and singing, they sang at fridays to him, we had a party yesterday, and brian says tonight after softball we are all going out for his birthday again, he's joking, but its because justins birthday has been a week long celebration. its just funny seeing as he thinks birthdays are dumb. BIRTHDAYS ARE NOT DUMB!

Well sunday came, all too fast. when its a busy weekend it flies, and before you know it, its the last day before you have to go back to work. boooo! Well we had church and justin preached and then we got ready for the party and i ran errands. It rained a little bit, but not enough to ruin the partay! We had lots of good friends there, and their awesome kids that we love so much and everyone had a good time! We played cornhole and grilled out, and ate cake, even after it fell on the ground. it was still yummy. I loved after it got a little slow and people had left that friends were just sitting on my front porch talking and swinging. I like that sort of thing. Well, here are some of the pictures and ill post more on the manny website for you people who dont have facebook. mainly our families need that =) mom, dont forget you can click on the picture to make it bigger. have a good week everyone!



and here is the picture of our lovely back patio all done!