Ed was on CBS News

My hubby was on the news yesterday.  Just a quick little clip of him racing.  He is the last one in the bright blue shirt.  You can only see him from the side and back. 

Spending a lovely day with daddy

Yesterday Ed had off of "work".  So what did we do together as a family?  We went to work.  On the hottest day of the year he had us out screening in a screen room.  I think it was 108 out.  The kids were crabby and that made us crabby.  I think I lost another 10 pounds.  Then the kids got to go to a friends house for a few minutes so Ed could measure for a railing.  Then it was off to a air conditioning call.  We finished it off with a very long wait in line for some Jersey Freeze ice cream.  Even though everyone was in a terrible moody for most of the day, I enjoyed working with Ed again.  It's been a long time since we have be out on the job together.  I'm not saying I would like to do that again.  I would prefer spending the day together at the beach or something.

first day

Today was my first day at my new job.  I start at five in the morning.  Its a good thing it takes me only six minutes to get there.  I don't think I can do any kind of traveling at that time of the morning.  All did today was stock shelves.  I think that's all I will be doing for awhile. 
I wasn't sure I was going to make it.  I have been so sick.  I threw up right before I left.  I drank a thermaflu before I left and managed to stay on my feet.  We had been doing well for about two weeks and then Michael got sick on Friday.  Nicole got sick again Saturday and I caught their bug on Sunday.  I think its time to double up on the vitamins.

back to work on the living room

We took a break from doing any work on our house.  Now we are back at it.  Here are some shots of daddy and his little helper.

We had to cover up the growth chart.  I think this was the reason it has taken us this long to finish the arch into the living room.  At least that's the excuse I'm going to use.

Cutting down trees

I have to admit I had some fun pulling down these trees.  The clean up wasn't nearly as much fun.  I don't shy away from hard work, but I clean up all the time it's nice to do something different.  Ed even let me drive the truck to pull them down.  I have to say even feeding the chipper didn't feel like work.  I just guess I like destroying things.