We had a wonderful weekend!

We celebrated Father's day and Aubry's birthday this weekend. Johnny's present actually arrived last weekend...a new charcoal grill! We hadn't been able to use the old one for a couple years because it had rubber "feet" that held water and ended up rusting the bottom of the legs so much that it collapsed just above those rubber feet. It leaned quite a bit after that! So, we got a new grill. Thank goodness for sale prices! :) Luckily it showed up just before I had to take Aubry to work...so she was able to help me bring the 125 pound box in the house! We sat it in the living room and I covered it with a blanket for Johnny to "open" during his lunch break. ;) That night, Johnny was so excited that we put it together in the living room at 1:00 am. LOL.

Then Johnny moved the old grill, cleaned off the back patio, and Ashlyn power-washed the patio furniture.

Friday evening we finally moved the grill from the dining room to the patio. Johnny made barbecue chicken out on the grill for dinner Friday night. It was SO yummy. :) He really likes his new grill!

Saturday morning Johnny started spray-painting the patio furniture. He got through the table and two of the chairs before we ran out of paint. But what a difference some spray paint makes! It had faded to a very light grey color...but with some dark grey metallic spray paint, they look like new! We also had to get some new cushions for the chairs and we found a nice umbrella...since ours was taken out in a storm a couple years ago. It's really starting to come together out there. :)

That evening my mom and dad came over for dinner. Aubry and my dad opened their gifts while I finished mixing the barbecue sauce for the pressure cooker spare ribs and Johnny finished the hamburgers, hot dogs, and brats out on the grill. It was a very nice evening. :)

Sunday was a very relaxing day just hanging out around the house. We slept in and watched some TV together. Ashlyn spent a few hours with her dad and Aubry mowed the front yard. It was a really nice weekend. :)

Oh! And I also joined a blessing group on Facebook...which is basically sharing Amazon wishlists and "blessing" people with items from their list. They play a lot of games...like the Price is Right where you post a price and if someone has something on their list (added prior to that day), they post a screenshot of the item and you purchase it for them. There's also the Wheel of Fortune game where 10 people join and each person spins a wheel with everyone's names on it...then you buy a gift from the list of the person's name that you landed on. There's also a lottery game...where about 20 or so people are entered and the moderator assigns numbers in order of comments and then uses a random number generator to draw a number. Then the lucky winner receives an item from their list from each of the rest of the participants. If everyone shows proof of purchase within 20 minutes, the moderator picks another number. Apparently it was my lucky day on Friday! My name was landed on 3 times in the Wheel of Fortune game and I was the second chance winner in the lottery drawing! So I ended up with 24 gifts! Fourteen of those packages arrived on Sunday and six more on Monday!


And then tonight, the girls and I had dinner with my mom and grandparents at Applebees for Aubry's birthday/graduation. It's still so hard to believe that she's done with high school! Parenting teenagers is surreal, that's for sure.