Hyco Lake Trip

Two Saturdays ago Cherre and Eric (Chad's sister and husband) invited us to their Lake house. So, Friday night I went to the store and bought the food we were assigned to bring, packed our bags, and forgot to tell Chad to check the tires on the car. On the way to Food Lion I had a strong feeling Chad should check the tires before we make the long trek out past Roxboro. When I got home it was late and I was tired and my neighbors came and talked to us so I did not want to bother Chad to check the tires. Well the next morning the kiddos woke us up early as usual, which I was glad so we could get everything ready to go. I packed the car got the kiddos ready as well as myself and i was about out the door when Chad said I have to change the tire. I said, "WHAT!!" I went out and looked at the tire. The tire was about ready to blow, the tread had already torn and who know what it would have taken for it to blow. So, I had to unpack the car Chad had to find somewhere level to change the tire. The kiddos were actually out in the car while Chad was changing the tire. Well Chad was changing the tire and the car started rolling. He was not very happy. I jumped in the car and put on the parking break mean while Chad is mumbling about the tire and he does not know how people can change a tire on the side of the road. Of course I chime in good thing we did not have to do that. So, after the tire change I packed the car and off we went. I drove. Well I am surely glad we changed our tire before we set out because the drive there was a little scary. We had to go through downtown Durham and through out the whole trip there I do not know how many Yard Sales we saw just off the side of the road there were about 50. Not to mention the Flea Markets they had as well. We made it to the road the Lake House was on with out getting lost. I was very impressed-Cherre kept telling me there was no cell service down there so if you get lost you will have to go all the way back into town to call. Well we get there and Chad happens to forgets to tell me part of the directions so I go down the road and get the the end. Well the directions say to go straight at the fork so I look straight and there is a huge cliff. So, I tell Chad to get out and go and look to see which house it is before I go down one of the big steep drive ways. Well he proceeds to tell me to go down one of the steep drive ways and when I tried to get back up the car just rolled back down. I was not thrilled. Chad told me to get out of the car and he drove. We did happen to have cell service and were able to call and found the house.
The Lake is beautiful, I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures as much as I do. When we got there we changed and then toured the house. Eric had already gotten the boat in the water. The children had to put on their life jackets,kipling did not mind, however Sada's was a little big and she was tired. We got out in the lake and we tubed for a while and then it was mentioned we should swim, since it was getting warm. I jumped in the water and Sada was handed to me. Kipling was in the tube and would not get in the water. Sada loved swimming. Kipling saw his sister doing it so he decided he should get in the water as well (this is working quite well with food as well. Sada will eat something and Kipling will eat it only because Sada is). We swam for quite a while until Eric saw the boat going towards someones dock. We all jumped back in the boat. It was then the time for the Chad, Kip, Sada and I to get in the tube. This was quite funny. We got in the tube and the tube had a hole in it so the air was leaking out slowly so by the time it was our turn it had little air in it (enough to tube). So, Eric starts the boat off and our feet go up in the air and our heads down almost in the water. I am sure it was a sight to see. If I were on the boat I am sure I would have been rolling on the floor laughing. Anyway we get back to the house and we swim around the dock for a while and then we eat lunch. Eric blows the tube up again and then we are off again. After a while Cherre and I decided we were going to get on the tube together. This was hilarious, The tube again had no air ( I do not know if I weighed so much every time I got in the tube the air came out of what). This time their was less air than before so again Cherre and My feet go in the air again, however Eric went faster since there were not children on the tube and the tube would fold like a sandwich so Cherre and I got pretty close. We thought we were going to end up on each others lap. Cherre and I had so much fun we laughed so hard. After tubing we again got out of the boat and swam before it was time to go back to the house to get another tube. We went back out and did some sight seeing (the whole time you were sight seeing looking at all of the houses and the beautiful sights), but we went around the lake. The Lake is so big so we were not able to go around the whole lake. After getting gas we came back to the house around 6:30 got showers cleaned up and we were out by 7:15. We had so much fun and cannot wait to go again. Chad said now he know why people have lake houses and we should look into getting one. We asked Eric how much the lots are going for and he said close to $200-500K (that does not include the house). We will not be getting a lake house or site any time in the near future.

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Yesterday/fathers Day

We pretended Yesterday was Fathers Day. We were supposed to go over to the Simpson's house for dinner to celebrate fathers day so I did not plan anything, but when the home folk came down with a bacteria it was best to call it off. So, we did not do anything on fathers day except go to church. So, yesterday I planned a dinner since I knew Chad would be home early to go out with the Missionaries. I told Kipling our plan and needed him to co-operate. Kipling helped me get all of the ingredients out for the cookies and then we had to wait for the butter to soften. The waiting part is where it gets Kipling. He went to go and play with Kitty and it went down hill from there. It ended however, with hitting sada in the head with his plastic dog. He was sent to bed/nap early. I was able to put Sada down for a nap at the same time and was able to make the cookies by myself. Sada woke up while I was cooking the second to last batch of cookies. I had to cook them in my Advantium Oven since I had cleaned my stove/oven and took the racks out and left them out-I also left the scrubber in the oven and so when I turned it there was a nasty smell. So the Advantium it was. The cookies turned out really good. Then it was time to call Chad to see when he was going to get home. At this time it was about 5:00 and he is now at a job in Pinehurst an hour and a half away. He said he would not be able to leave for at least an hour, so I let him know he had to call and cancel with the Missionaries since he would not be home in time-I did give the Missionaries a heads up the night before about him not getting home on time. Sorry to any of you whose husband had to fill in at the last miniute. Any way he got home about 7 and I had dinner almost ready. So, Chad took Kitty and the kids to the neighbors house to play while I was finishing the last miniute touches to dinner. Dinner turned out really good I made Chicken with barbeque sacue, bacon and cheese, with a baked potato on the side, and corn on the cob. I had the table set and we were ready to go. Kip cried the entire meal, Sada on the other hand did really well and just sat there eating Kiplings chicken. Then since it was so late Sada started crying since she was tired and it was her bed time so Chad put her to bed. While he was putting her to bed we got a phone call....It was one of our lovely neighbors from Bellewood Farms (where we own our land). He just kept on going on and on with Chad about when he was going to mow the stinking lot. Chad told him that he could not promise anything but we would try and do it soon but could not commit a date. Anyway this went back and forth for about 15 miniutes. So, I get frustrated one because I wanted to have a nice meal and it is turning out horrible two because our neighbor calls us and grills us on when we are going to mow our grass so they can sell the three houses for sale in the neighborhood-that is right our lot is stopping the three houses for sell in the neighborhood from selling, three because Chad should have already mowed the lot or had our neighbor at the lot mow it for $25 a month four both of our children are screaming. So, my nice wonderful day turned out to be horrible. I just wanted to cry.

Our pet Kitty

Chad brought home a stray Kitten last Friday from one of his job sites. He said the temperature was going to get up quite high and he did not want the cat to have to endure the heat (I have not known a Simpson boy to be sensitive to an animal). I said, "a cat, that is the last thing I would have expected you to have brought home". He said, 'it's only a rental" I was expecting the cat to be gone by now. However we have gotten a little attached to her now. She goes potty outside and is really good with the kids. She had a wake up call at first but is now used to being carried around by the neck, having her hair pulled, being put in the toilet and being held under the water spicket(sp) in the bath tub that is just to name a few of what she has to tolerate to live with at 2 year old and an almost 1o month old. I think she just tolerates it because she has food and AC.
Here are a couple pictures. She is a really pretty kitten, and her name for right now is kitty.

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