One Eventful Weekend

Our weekend was full of fun and amazing things, not to mention a few mishaps. 

We started it off by being blessed with new furniture!! Yes, its true. Our old, sad, red furniture found its way to a hole in the middle of a field, known to our family as "The Pit." I was not sad to see it go though. As the old one was ushered out. . . we welcomed a new black leather set in. Well, new to us anyways, and might I add in much better shape. We really are enjoying it too. Thanks Dad and Brenda. You guys are amazing.

On Saturday, we went with my parents to my dad's company picnic. It's hosted every year at Columbus Acres, in Ft. Smith. Not only do we eat lunch there, but while the adults enjoy playing bingo and trying to win prizes, the kids get to enjoy all sorts of fun things. There are bounce arounds, a rock climbing wall, bungee jumping thingies, paint ball shoots, face painting and a balloon artist. Not to mention the fun carnival games where they win countless little stuffed animals. (Those seem to always make their way to the trash can soon after coming home with us, but shhhhh. . . don't tell my kids.) It's always a day full, but always a good time.

Then Sunday came. It started out great. . . we went to Navigate and attended service at LWRV like we always do. Went to eat with Onye and Tiff afterwards, pretty normal as well. Then we decided to cut a tree down that was in our back yard. That idea was super, as we haven't really cared for the said tree since we have lived here.  However, little did we know that carrying out the task was going to prove harder than we had discussed. :-)
We got the tree cut, but somehow miscalculated the strength it was going to take to get it to fall in the desired direction. So it ended up falling on our neighbors privacy fence. Luckily the fence was already in a damaged state from the storms/tornadoes back in the spring. However, they did have dogs so we did have to patch the fence until it can be replaced at a later date.  But that was just the first ooops. I had pulled Chris's pickup into the back yard to load the tree limbs so they could be hauled to "The Pit." Once they were set and ready to go, I somehow again miscalculated and drove the truck through the gate wrong and scratched the fender on the brick of the house. (WOW. That is SO not like me either. I'm still getting over that one.) So that was the second ooops.  Ok, so I was aggravated at the fact that I scratched the truck, even though it is "just a truck." But in the midst of that and trying to pick up the rest of the mess that comes with cutting down a tree, I wasn't paying attention and stepped down onto one of the old fence boards with a nasty yucky nail in it. Not just the board, I stepped smack dab onto the nail. So yep, you guessed it. . . on to the Dr to get a tetanus shot. Whoopie. (I didn't know exactly how far the nail had gone into my foot, as it had to go through my tennis shoe first, but I did know it bled a lot, and it hurt!!) After seeing him, I'm not sure which hurt worse. . . my foot, or my arm?? 
After returning home, everything got better. We ended up taking the tree parts to the pit and watching them burn in a huge fire, right along with the nasty red furniture!! It was fun getting to watch it all go up in a blaze. I guess it was momentarily therapeutic!! lol But we ended the night by roasting hot dogs and marshmallows at Onye's, letting the kids drive his tractor, and shooting off a few fireworks left over from the 4th!!

Thankfully a good ending to a not so good day!

But over all, another wonderful weekend.