SHANTY DAYS 2009

A little late but better than never!!! So the weekend of February 20th - the 22nd, I was at Chris's for Shanty Days. A Fun wintery drunk time!! :) But to start off -yikes almost forgot!!!

Dad had his surgery on the 2oth! Total hip replacement surgery. Mom said that he came out of it jsut fine, minimal blood loss and instead of a 52(inch maybe??) hip the doc had to get a larger one-72!!! yeah thats a big jump!!! So he is doing just fine, mom brought him home Sunday and he used his walker but moved around like a champ!!!

Ok so for Shanty Days. Friday I drove up there with my cousin-Big E. We stopped off to see dad and mom at the hospital then away we went to Caseville. We got to Chris's settled in then Chris, Big E, Truck and I went to the bar in Caseville to meet up with Aunt Steph and Sherry nd some other people. Besides the waitresses being Skanky Bitches it was a nice time. MOVING ON!!!

Saturday Nick brought Katie up so I wasnt the only girl there Thank God!!! We got around a little late but oh well. We ate lunch at 1:00; it started to snow like dandruff flakes basically by 1:30 it was a full out blizzard!!! Crazy! We went to the beer tent about 3:00. The beer tent is the best part!! Good time bought a few tickets for beer but otherwise we brought in our own!!! Which is the best way to go. Katie and I had a great time!!! By 8:00 though it was time....time to go to the bar!!!!! Yah we left the bar around 1:30 and man were we done for the day!!!

Sunday we got up and had breakfast and headed for home. Great time!! Thanks Caseville! check out more pics here:http://picasaweb.google.com/Kimsinanutshell/ShantyDays2009?feat=directlink

I couldn't add a video dont know how to do that yet-but man were they hilarious! Lucky for me, Cody and Katie!

This past weekend we got a hotel room at the Portland hotel so we could use the pool! Me and my family were stir crazy for sure and so were Ben and Britta's kids, Amanda had her two kids out there and even Ryan and Alissa brought out their clan!!! It was fun but tiring having Barratt, Cayden and Damian jump at you then you help push them to the steps of the pool so they can do it all over again! But I wouldn't have traded it for anything. Now I just can't wait for Summer to swim all that much more!

Today, dad went to his doctors they took out his staples and gave him a great clearance-he can start using a cane, he can drive he can do it all. The doctor told him though that if he gets sore then he did too much and that he needed to rest but the old man is back on his way to getting outside and 'working' :)

Oh congrats to my cousin Jessy from St John's her cheerleading team made it to Regionals, they placed 7th!! Congrats Jessy!

AND one more thing...comgrats to Heather and Chris on expecting!

Now I am just looking forward to my busy schedule coming up ahead! Just gotta keep on keeping on!