Archive for June, 2006
Hey everyone! I have entered Abby into a dog of the month contest. If you just visit this site http://dogcentral.msn.com/Gallery.aspx you can vote for her. Right now Abby (Abigail Merlot) is on the first page, but if she isn’t there you can go to select color and find black/white/tan and find her that way. Once you see her pic (it’s one where she is wearing a red sweatshirt on a green couch) just click on it and a window will open. Then just click on “vote for this dog” and you are done. So if you have a few extra moments please go vote for Abby…. we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks from Abby and my self!!!!!
EDIT: I forgot to mention that you can vote several times a day and multiple days. And thank you everyone that has voted.
June 27th, 2006
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Len’s Birthday
June 27th, 2006
So Brian talked about the houses there. I fell in love with the last one we went into (which actually was the cheapest). If we could have bought at that moment, I would have. Here’s the picture of the house.
If we go back, I don’t know if I will find a house like this one again.
June 27th, 2006
Well we headed down last week Wed thru Sat to see what was going on down in Atlanta. The trip was an interesting one. We started off by having our flight leave 20 minutes early which never happens but a nice start to the trip. When we arrived and stepped outside we were met with some very warm weather. As Jodi said, “Boy it is HOT down here”. We woke up Thursday morning and headed down to the Norcross branch. I wasn’t inside more then 5 minutes and they had someone go outside to drag Jodi inside. We were greeted by a bunch of wonderful people and spent the first hour taking a tour of the building. Next I went thru meeting some of the key people down there and sat down for about a 1 hour interview. After that we headed out to lunch with my potential new boss and the head of Human Resources. Lunch was very nice as we shared stories and talked about the Atlanta area.
When we returned to the office Jodi and I talked with the soon to be Branch Manager about potentially coming down to Georgia. That meeting seemed to go pretty good and it was sounding pretty promising. Of course as we were told they move very slow down there and he said they should have the process concluded in the next couple of weeks. Which was surprising to me figuring with me coming down there, that they would be close to deciding. Well we said our final good-byes to everyone we met and had one more talk with Wayne (future boss) which went really good and sounded like we had his vote for getting the job. We had one of those heart to heart talks about making the move which went good. So it was then back to the hotel and off to the Malls.
We spent the rest of the night doing some shopping, and driving around getting lost. We woke up on Friday and met with a realtor who took us on a tour of the suburbs and showed us a few houses. Here is a picture of one of the houses that we saw.
We found the subs out there to be extermely neat. Most subs are what they call swim and tennis subs. Which of course means exactly what it sounds like. The sub that this house was in had a total of 2,500 homes in it ranging from 200,000 up to 1,000,000. All the homes seemed to be on rolling hills which was very pretty. All of the homes we look at had walk out basements which made all of them seem really really nice. After we were done looking at the houses we headed back to the hotel to take a little nap..(this was some what of a vacation so we did not want to work to hard). For our evening activity we started with more shopping and then headed to a park called Stone Mountain. Here are a couple of pics from the park.
Here we spent just a little bit of time looking at all of the little shops, had a real nice dinner at Aunt Millie’s which was a old style rest. and caught the night laser light show.
Saturday morning quickly came upon us which we didn’t do a whole heck of alot and headed back to the airport and made our way back home to Michigan.
Hopefully we will here something either way by I’m guessing sometime next week.
June 26th, 2006
Just wanted to let everyone know that i will be having a garage sale the weekend of the 24th and 25th if anyone has any thing they would like to sell please let me no and try and have it at my house by the 22 nd at the latest.
June 13th, 2006
Well on Sunday evening we finally said our good-byes to our dog Murray. It was a very sad experience and our family is hurting (including Fudge). We treated Murray to a final meal consisting of McDonalds Fries and chicken nuggets and just to put a little bit of icing on the cake, we found Murray on the kitchen table walking around 10 minutes before leaving for the vet. He will be missed but I know in my heart that he is in a better place and he can be happy as happy can be in get in all of the trouble that his little heart desires.
As for the rest of our family I knocked out job number 3 this weekend and took on number 4. I installed a french drain at our co-workers house that lives in our sub-division. In doing so I talked with an elder neighbor who has landscaping that has been taken over by weeds and grass. So on Sunday I took care of one area and told him I would come back and work on the rest of what he needs done. This job should last a few days if not a couple of weeks due to all of the work that needs to get done. But the nice thing is that we pass his house daily and he is right on a main corner so getting his house together will help all of us on the street.
Jodi spent most of the past weekend working on our own landscaping in the front yard. She did a wonderful job and our front yard looks fantastic. Great job BABY.
I had a phone interview on Wed. for the Georgia job which went very well and I’m just waiting to hear from them this week which hopefully will lead to going down there either late this week or possibly next week.
Braylen continues to be adding words to his vocabulary which we can’t keep up with. Jodi has been working on counting with him and working on his colors. He of course is starting to repeat everything that we say and repeated his first swear word with Jodi this weekend. Jodi can fill in those details for you. Braylen is also starting to show signs of wanting to play with other kids as we witnessed on Thursday at my parents house. My mom let a couple of the kids in the neighborhood come over and Braylen just ran and ran with the kids.
One of Braylen’s cute moments this weekend was on Saturday morning Jodi and I were sitting in the living room talking about how Braylen was calling for Momma in the morning when he wanted to get up, and he climbed into Jodi’s lap and made this very cute face got nose to nose with her and in a deeper voice said MOMMA.
June 12th, 2006
A recent photos of Brayen
I like my new, (old), slide Daddy found for me…..
Look, it’s a big bath tub!!!!!!!
I can drain the water out all on my own…. this is cool!
This apple is GREAT… I wouldn’t let mom cut it up, I wanted the whole thing.
I’m so handsome….
June 2nd, 2006
I will be 2
May 31st, 2006