Vacation's O-V-E-R!

Well, I supposed yet again you all are wondering why the sudden lapse in blogging. Well, the truth of the matter is , it was EXTREMELY hard to come back from vacation and pretty much since we got back we have been thrown headfirst back into the busy world of working and bill paying...bleh. Recap of recent events:

Sunday we made it to Sturgeon without any problems, thank goodness! Allen's friends Nike (pronounced Nick...don't ask...), his wife Erin, and Chris came over and we sat outside talking until 3:00 a.m.! It was really good to get to see them. They are very good people and they have always meant alot to Allen, and still do, we just don't get to see them very often at all. The mosquitoes feasted on us, even though we had bug spray and a citronella candle burning.

Monday Matt and Nicole came over and we had a BBQ. Phil made BBQ brisket which was AMAZING! We played a good game of poker, and Matt won. It was really great to get to see them. It was too bad Dustin and Jessica couldn't come by, but it's understandable when they live about 3 and 1/2 hours away from Sturgeon, that's quite a drive for one dinner.

Matt and Nicole are looking at buying a house. Our friends Kate and Seth closed on their house...and we are admittedly a little jealous! (Not in a mean jealous way, more a of a happy for them, but wishing we were doing the same, kind of jealous.) We just are not at that point yet to be able to buy, but we will be; just give us some time! :)

Tuesday was a day of doing NOTHING! It was sooooo wonderful!

P.S. I did not wear socks from Saturday morning clear through Thursday morning! YAY! :)

We ate this really great fried chicken from some place in Columbia, but then at 5 am on Wednesday I was SICK! I seriously thought I was dying. I was the only one to get sick, so I must have been the lucky one to get the one piece of bad chicken, LOL! I survived and recovered very quickly, thank goodness!

Wednesday we went with Brenda and Phil to see Star Trek at the Columbia movie theatre. GREAT MOVIE! :) We all really liked it a lot. Pretty amazing the simlarities in the characters they chose for this new film and the original characters.

P.S. Columbia movie theatre is 50 times nicer, and bigger than ours here in Quincy!

Then we ate dinner at the Golden Corral and let me tell you what, if the movie theatre is 50 times nicer than the ones her in Quincy, Columbia's Golden Corral is 500 times better than the one we have in Hannibal. I just could not get over it!

Thursday it was back to the grindstone, just as if a vacation had never taken place! It was horrible to come back. We really enjoyed all the time we got to spend with Brenda and Phil, out there in the country away from work and Quincy; but we knew it had to end sometime! Thank you again Brenda and Phil for letting us escape to your little piece of heaven in Central-Mo!

Friday night we ate dinner with Josh and went to Grandma and PopPop's to pick up the recliner they gave to us. It's a really comfy chair and we love it alot! Grandma also gave me this really awesome decorative humidifier. I LOVE IT! Thank you again, Grandma and Pop Pop! :)

Saturday night we went to Mom and Dad's. I hung out with Mom for a while, and Allen went fishing with Josh and Caleb. They were gone for about 3 hours and came back with 24 fish! NOT BAD! :) They have to keep it up though because we're gonna need all that fish for the 4th of July!

Today, Allen is at work. I baked a Cherry Cola Cake for PopPop's birthday. He is having a small party tonight, so as soon as Allen gets home from work, that's what we'll be doing. Then tomorrow......back to work as normal! BLEH!

Ok, so those are all the not so exciting details of what we have been up to for the past week. If you are still reading this, bless you!

I just wanted to take a minute to let all of our friends and family who read this and those who don't read this blog know how much we love you all. How happy we find ourselves in these scary times of economic crisis is a direct result of having a great family and wonderful friends. You guys are the BEST! :)