Tanner...

Since today is Tanner's actual birthday, and I have nothing else to post, I am just posting more pictures of him... :)

Another pic of when we went to Destin a while ago...

Tanner's 4th birthday!

This was in 2000 at Marci's house, it's funny looking back at pictures of when they were so little...

At Uncle Titus and Aunt Jackie's wedding, we were all waiting on the girls to get ready for pictures... :)

March of last year...


Happy Birthday Tanner!

I Love This Boy...

Tanner Matthew Goodling, born September 29, 1998... It's his birthday, well, not quite yet, but as I stated in the previous post, he wanted to have his party today rather than on a school day... Tanner has brought me much joy and happiness through the years, and it just keeps getting better as the years go by! So I thought I'd post a few pics...

I've always loved this picture! I guess he was only about three and a half here and it was when we went to Destin...

This was the day Tanner got Bo, a little over two years ago...

Trip we made this year actually on my companies annual outing...

Trip Tanner made to Savannah last year...

Trip we made to Destin a few months ago...

I could have posted a gazillion pics here obviously, but it only lets me post five per post for some reason... :( Anyway, Tanner is a thrill to have and it's been amazing watching him grow up! I can't wait to see the rest of it! Happy Birthday Tanner!!

Happy Birthday Tanner!

Of course his actual birthday is not until Tuesday, but he wanted his party today rather than on a school day, so had it we did! :)

That wasn't his first choice of cakes, but they were out of the one he wanted... He was happy with it though. I can't believe my baby is 11!!

It's funny that all the birthday pictures are all the same, but I guess we've lived here for over eight years, so I suppose they would be... :)

Bionicle! Tanner will spend hours putting those things together, he's about the only one that is interested in them though...

Ditto with the Bionicle...

He's also an XBox 360 fan, they used to have Guitar Hero, but the guitar broke about a year ago, so he was excited to get a new one and an updated one!

Of course then there is the dirt bike that he HAD to have as an "early" birthday present, which we got for him, it is now broke and needs a new carburetor... Sigh. Of course that happened with the one we got Chance, no sooner did I get it, it needed a new carburetor... What can you do?? Anyway, Tanner had a fabulous day and I can't believe my little boy is eleven...

This Is About All I Do These Days...

What's that you might ask? Work on this pool house, but it will soon be done, I hope! As long as it's done before winter, I'll be happy... :)

The puppies love to come hang out with me when I'm working, I think they like my music!! :)

As you can see, the drywall is nearly done, primer on, and ready for paint!! It's pissing down rain right now, which is why I'm blogging rather than working...

Again, drywall is ready for paint, all primed and ready to go! So as soon as it stops raining, I can get started on that!!

Shower room is nearly done, and yes, I got that sink for 1 cent at Home Depot a few years ago. Not bad! It's tight in there, but it works!

So yeah, that's what is going on here! I literally do nothing except work on that pool house and work. Tomorrow we are having Tanner's birthday party, so he is stoked about that. The sad thing is, the "early present" we bought him, his dirt bike, needs a new carburetor... So yeah, I have to order that and then fix it, I HATE working on their dirt bikes, but what are you going to do?? They LOVE them! There, two blogs in one day! :)

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...

I suck at blogging lately, but about the only thing I have going on is trying to finish that damn pool house before winter sets in! I figure I have a few months left, and really the only reason that's all I do is I'm OVER working on it and am so close to finishing it that I can't stop! So basically all I do is work and work on that pool house... :)

Drywall is nearly done, and so is the slate now...

I've just got the kitchen area and that toilet room left to go, oh yeah, and the rest of the bottom part of the wall... :( So yeah, perhaps saying it's 'almost done' isn't quite accurate, but whatever...

Other than that, it's been raining, raining and raining some more! I suppose we are lucky, some people lost everything they own and of course no one in this area has flood insurance, so it's just gone! We got some water in the garage and a little in the back rooms where it came in from the garage, but it's all up now and hopefully it will stop raining soon. I do have some more pics, but they are on my server because I wiped my laptop out and reinstalled it and I don't really feel like firing that thing up right now, perhaps later.

The kids have been out of school all week, so they were ecstatic about that, but I guess they don't realize they will have to make it up later... :) Chance's bearded dragons have mated, sigh... I suppose they have anywhere from 12 - 30! So now I have to buy Chance an incubator... Anyone want a bearded dragon? They are GREAT pets! :)

More later... :)

Why is this taking so long??

I sometimes feel like I have been working on this for freaking EVER!! I suppose I have though, I'm making progress, but it seems like most chores take MUCH longer than I think they will. Oh well, getting there, I do see the light at the end of the tunnel... :)

Finally got that shower tiled, whew! I just have to grout it tomorrow...

Closer view, turned out pretty nice actually...

Perspective...

Hopefully tomorrow I will get the shower grouted and the slate on those floors, we'll see how that works out... For now though, there is a HUGE bowl of popcorn and 'The Lost Symbol' calling my name... :)

Progress!!!

Yeah, I've been slacking lately, but whatever, at least I keep posting! :)

That look pretty much sums up how I feel about drywalling, I HATE it!!! But it is slowly getting done!!

I've actually made a LOT of progress over the past few days, hopefully I can soon just relax!!

Shower is done, except for the tile, sigh...