Where did the rest of August go?? I missed posting about a few August events!!
There were a few more August birthdays besides Lisa's and Adlee's. Tami's Blake turned big #16!! Yes, he's driving!
Then on August 29th, Lisa's Lilly turned #11! I got a lot more pictures of Lilly!! She sure had a fun birthday! First she got taken out of school to go to lunch with her mom and dad and baby Lawson! Lisa took her to get her nails done, she got an Apple Watch that she can call her Gma from! She got to go get sherbet and she got an e-bike scooter! WOW!
If you know what the new 'lingo' is, you're smarter than me!!
I just asked Lisa what it means:
"This totally awesome person is 11 for sure!"
Mark's been taking his boat out a lot on Roosevelt Lake. He took Kari's family out in July for Rivers #16 birthday, along with all Rivers friends and he took his boys with their friends and boy cousins. He recently took his girls with their girl cousins. They had some excitement. Mark decided to do a back flip off the boat! He hit something and gashed his head really good. He was bleeding like crazy and nothing to fix it with. For being a doctor, he wasn't very prepared!! He had to improvise to somehow get it to stop bleeding so much and not have to drive the 30 minutes to an ER for stitches! He came up the idea to use his hair to pull it together. The girls twisted a few strands together from each side, then tried to tie them to each other. His hair was too short to make that work. The dilemma? How to get them to stay together? The answer- chewing gum of course! All the girls donated their chewed gum and stuck it on his head to hold the gash together. It worked! He put his hat on and they played on the lake the rest of the day. Once back to Mesa, he went to the clinic/ER where he works and they put 9 staples in, after working to get all the gum out of his hair first!!
Randy has been over trying to get my new sprinkler system ready for winter, so I can blow out the water lines so they don't freeze! It has been raining and they had to work in the mud!! He brought his helper, Jason over to do the heavy lifting!
This was the original, how the sprinkler guys did it. However, we had no way of turning off just the water to the sprinklers. They had to dig up half my lawn to find the water line coming in and put a shut off valve in.
Before....
After....
It was so much work, they worked from morning until almost 5pm. I sure appreciate my sweet brother-in-law!!!
The last thing that has happened is me hitting a stupid turkey! I was coming home from Mesa, about 5 miles outside of Show Low, when a turkey hen decides to come out on the road. I slowed to about 60mph, but that wasn't enough! I hit it and it did so much damage to the front of my car. I had to get a new grill, have the dent in my hood popped out and then the guy who fixed it told me that my condenser to my A/C is also bent in, but it doesn't seem to be leaking! $800 later! STUPID TURKEY!
I think I'm all caught up for now!! It's been a busy month!
