24 and going strong...

Happy 24th anniversary to our Aunt Marian and Uncle Jack!
We love you!!

PePe le Pew strikes back...

It started out as a typical monday morning.

Frank got up and ready for work.

He let the dogs out before he left.

But this morning turned out to be different.

Somehow, somewhere, there was a skunk outside.

And, being the curious dog that he is, Ecko found it...

Well, i'm sure you know what happened next.

That's right people, a face full of skunk butt!

And he made onto the porch and into his usual spot on the couch before Frank even noticed.

So needless to say, our whole porch reeks like skunk!

And to top it off, it was pouring outside, and you can't leave a skunk sprayed dog out in the rain because if they get wet it's even harder to get the stentch off them.

So Frank put the dog in the cage so he couldn't skunk-ify our house anymore, and he came up and told me that i would have to scrub the dog when we all got up.

GREAT!

So he left for work, but thankfully a miracle happened.

When he got to his usual place to meet up with his carpool, his boss had cancelled their concrete pour for this morning because of the rain...

So Frank told his boss he was just gonna go home to help scrub the dog.

Thank you Jesus!!

He came home and went back to sleep for a while (his favorite part) to wait for the rain to stop.

When the rain finally stopped, he went to WalMart to buy supplies to clean the dog.

And i know what you're thinking, but we didn't get tomato juice.

We used baking soda, peroxide and dish detergent.

It only took 2 scrubs to get him clean, miraculously.

Hopefully he'll be smart enough to avoid black animals with white stripes on their backs from now on, but i doubt it.

So after we all ate and got dressed, we decided to go get the dog a new collar, since his old one still smelled like skunk butt.

Frank also thought it would be a good idea to get Mady a present while we were out...not because it's a holiday, or because it's her birthday, let's just call it a "daddy's day off" present.

Oy.

Meet the newest members of our family...

Goldie, whitey and blackie (not their offical names, Mady has yet to decide what she wants)

In their new home

Note the princess castle, picked out by our little princess

And this is the proud mommy posing with her fish

This is why daddy goes to work and isn't a stay at home dad...it costs too much money!!

Church picinic time of year...

It's that time again,

coal region church picinic time!

That means haluski, pierogies, pigeons, potato cakes, all the good stuff in one stop!

This past weekend was our church picinic, and i made cupcakes for the bake sale again this year.

But i wasn't alone.

This year, Mady helped me make them...

and she was so proud of how they turned out.

She is SURE that everyone will gobble them up faster than they could sell them.

What do you all think?!

Pie cupcakes

Rubber ducky cupcakes

I think she did an excellant job.

Happy Father's Day...

Happy Father's Day Daddy, Love Madylinn and Emmerson!!

Slowly...

It's been a while since i've been able to say "We're making progress on the pool deck".

Actually, it's been a while since i've been able to say "We're making progress on the house in general", but we are!!

Frank worked this weekend and got our second bench on the pool deck done.

Now we just have one more bench and some railing to go!!

Yay!!

Another photo bomb...

Playing with Pap Pap in the pool
Getting a running start for her jump
Look at that form...she's a basketball pro in the making
My mini princess
Bathing beauty
Out for a ride together
Best friends forever <3
They love each other, it's so cute
My lil soccer star

Update on the pool...

We are so close to being done!

We were at a breaking point, where we thought we were going to have to pay for dirt from the landscaping company.

Then, thanks to facebook, i found someone who was digging up their yard to put a pool in...and they were giving their dirt away to anyone that wanted it.

Hello!! We do!!

So we got about 5 or 6 truck loads of dirt and we managed to finish up all around the outside of the pool and even under the deck.

Now we just have to finish the second level on the far side and get some rosebushes to plant there and we are totally done!!

I'm super excited :)

Right front of the pool

Left front of the pool

My side bed...thanks to my awesome mom i planted all those pretty pink petunias around the outside...now i just have to keep them alive, hehehe.

Madylinn's spring dance recital...

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