Where oh where have Keith and Kim gone?

No where really. We have been SUPER busy with everything that is going on. We are sorry that we haven't been updating you on our lives, and that we haven't been updating ourselves with yours. We promise to read and write!!!

What should you look forward to? Aka what have we been doing: Last day of school, first day of summer school, yard sale, mass$ve overt$me, KITCHEN, new refrigerator & stove & microwave & dishwasher, gardening, WEDDING WEDDING WEDDING. Not to mention, our wedding is in 22 days. And I am sure I am missing some stuff. Stay tuned!

Overwhelmed

This is how I am feeling. It's the combination of work and the wedding and now the head coach of cheerleading quitting. For some reason the spring flipped a switch on in my kids heads and now they are acting like I haven't given them any sense all year. They are countlessly being rude to each other, calling each other names, and telling others to shut up. I've had it. They have even gotten out of their chairs and presented themselves for a fight. Before I would get in between them whether they were "playin" or not. But now, I told them "Go ahead. Hit each other. The sooner you get it done, the faster your out of here in cuffs and I won't have to deal with you for the rest of the year." They stare at me astonished. It works for a day or two. But not for the whole week, and certainly not enough before a section quiz. I have a bunch of appointments running for the wedding. I think we have 43 days left. Crunch time. And my friend is now going back to school and can't do cheerleading. So I'm the head coach. Nuts. I have tryouts next week and these girls and one guy want to do so many things. I know no sooner do I set it up, they will back out. Ahh... patience, I need patience.

Ouchy backs

This weekend Keith and I did a lot of yard work. More Keith than me. He used the pickup to pile in large tree branches to throw in the woods. He also cut the grass. I went and bought a bunch of flowers and planted a little sceene. We bought shepard hooks on Thursday and wanted to hang flowers, but the baskets were too heavy. Boooo. We also painted some stuff for the wedding ceremony and Keith put up a fence around our very large compost pile. Keith ended up with four ticks in total. Me... zero. I really think my skin is not attractive to bugs. I'll keep it that way! Oh yeah, Keith's back hurts.

Dress

It fits. It fits. It fits.

6 weeks ago my hips were a tad too big for my dress. My dress zipped up alright but you could see a tiny stretch. Well Keith and I have been running and we both can run over a mile straight. I am happy to say the dress looks the best it ever has. I have my pre-bridal portraits this Monday with my hair and makeup trials too. Right now the dress is living in the closet. Keith asked for a little reminder to let him know NOT to go in there. Do you think I did a good job?Note: 53 days to the wedding. 117 replied yes, 5 no = 60% coming.

No, it's not Halloween

Keith becoming Wolverine. He actually let ME shave his chin. But here you can see how long his beard actually got.

His mustash is now gone.

Beard is trimmed down. Hair is styled, slight pose.

Grrrr baby grrr. =) Black and white very dramatic.

Gotta love it!

But worry too much; its only going to last a few days and then he will go back to being clean cut and shaved.

Grilling for the first time

Keith has had a strong determination NOT to use the gas grill his dad gave us a while back. (It was a hand me down after he got a new one.) For about a month Keith was on this kick that he wanted a charcoal grill. I said whatever. I grew up with burgers on the grill. It took about another month for him to actually take it outside. So tonight was the night we tried it out. Keith was SUPPOSE to grill. He set up a pyramid of coals, lit them, let them turn to ash, then spread them out. But there wasn't a lot of heat. So we stacked them back up again. Not enough heat again. We took the burgers off, and put more coals in the grill and heated them up. Now we're cooking, literally. The burgers he made were thick and about the size of your palm. He became upset when they were getting skinnier but not thinner (the circumference was getting smaller but the height of the meat remained the same). Oh well, not a big deal. They soon enough were "Kimmie satisfactory not pink inside" so we brought them in to eat. After taking a bite, they tasted a bit salty. Keith read that salt helps keep the juices in the burger. I'm not a fan of juices to begin with since they make the roll soggy... I do not do soggy. I asked how much salt he used... 1 teaspoon. For a pound of meat. He asked if that was too much. Duh.

Getting a new...

Kitchen?

We went to Lowe's tonight and designed a kitchen to replace the one we have now. This is the one room Keith hasn't touched in the house during the renovations (ok the upstairs bathroom too). After the shower, we have tons of stuff that will live in their boxes if we do not add more cabinets. More than likely we will be ordering before our trip to DE this weekend with it arriving in 6 weeks. So for two weeks before the wedding we will be living out of the laundry room. But I doubt it will be that big of a deal. Esp if Keith's brother is home during that time because his mom will be cooking for more anyway. Ahh. I won't have to make popcorn in the dryer, haha sike.

Speaking of the shower, it went very nicely. I feel totally dazed though. Open card, give card to bridesmaid, give bow to other bridesmaid, give trash to cousin, lift and show, get new present from another bridesmaid and repeat. We got a lot of good things. I think I did pretty well opening. I had 30 minutes to spare after opening all the presents and cards. From what I heard though all the ladies had a good time. I heard my aunt said it was the nicest shower she has ever been to. Awesome! I just really hope the wedding isn't so much of a daze.