The BIG Surprise

After a busy and exhausting day at work, I came home and found a big surprise, but it was one for my better half.  The kids chipped in and bought a new grill for an early Father's Day present.  It is really awesome.   It even has a Boomer Sooner Color!  Jeff was very surprised and happy too.  Mary and Matthew were so excited to see our reactions.  Planning to grill tomorrow. To top off the surprise, they cleaned the whole house with the kitchen looking nice and shiny! Thanks guys!
  

That wasn't the end of our Friday evening.  We all packed in the Prius and drove to Holland to have dinner with Sarah at a favorite Mexican restaurant. The food was delicious as usual and Jeff and Brandon got to see Sarah's townhouse. She has her Tiger stuff hanging on the walls and still needs a TV stand and a desk.  It's shaping up nice!  

The evening ended at home with a netflix movie, "The Tourist". Matthew and I made it to the end and liked it a lot.  We hope that we can watch it again with Dad and Mary.

Sarah told us some stories about her jobs including the fact that she found out she has a third job!  The Hope College Sports Camps that she worked last year are starting up and they have Sarah on the schedule.  She said she would help out, but didn't think she would be a regular.  Whew!  She is going to be busy. Next week is soccer camp for young kids. The camp scheduler knows that Sarah's priority is her Biology and Waitress jobs, and still has her Monday's off for softball.  Yay!

Mary has her own set of funny stories from McDonald's.  She has worked lots of hours the past few weeks and has graciously gone in early or stayed late on many occasions.  They gave her some crazy hours lately.  Worked 5-10 pm Thursday and then 6-11 am  on Friday.  That isn't very nice! She's a trooper and made it through the shift, helped Matthew get started on his model car and of course they went and purchased the new grill.

Matthew is working today at the Theatre for a Dance Recital. He is responsible for the lighting. Later today he plans to cut our neighbor's lawn and then finally relax.  Got his haircut already this morning, and stopped by his buddy's open house on the way to work.  

I wanted to get more done this morning, but fell asleep on the couch after breakfast. Decided I needed to blog before heading out to an Open House, grocery shopping and doing the ever challenging Quicken.  Helping out with the music at church tomorrow too, so I had better practice a little. Now, I just found college baseball on ESPN and the Gators are playing in the super-regional playoff.  I am hooked!  Oh boy, I need to stay focused! Top of the fourth and the Gators are winning!

Guess I had better get motivated! Go Gators!  

Gracie

PS.1  Wish we could be at our nephew, Eric's Open House to celebrate.  Have a fun time!

PS.2  My fish died today. He made me very happy the past week. Think I'll put the fishbowl away for now.

PS.3 The weather has been so much better..Highs in the 70s. It has been a little rainy, but the next few days are supposed to be sunny and 75.  Perfect!