Happy Birthday Mylee

Cousin Mylee's 1st birthday party was Sunday. Maddi wasn't quite as interested in Mylee's gifts as she was in Brooke's because this party was outside (Maddi's absolute favorite place to be) so we just spent a lot of time playing in the grass.

Thank you to these nice girls who let me think I was playing with them!

I like to go up the slide........

.......and down the steps.

Drywall

We have walls!!! All of the inspections so far have passed on the first time. Everything is ahead of schedule so Karl is planning on moving the flower shop the weekend of July 18 (yes, this means as soon as we get back from the lake we are headed straight to work). We have a tuxedo convention in Nashville July 27-30 so the weekend after we should be able to move the bridal store. Very exciting!!!

Entry ways that were cut out in the front of the store Main show room for bridal gowns - yes, that is Karl in the wheelchair, he threw his back out over the weekend but just can't stay out of the building

Bridal dressing rooms

Design area and cooler

Happy Father's Day & Outside Fun

Hope all the Daddy's out there had a great Father's Day! We had a nice day with Grandma Sharon & Grandpa Randy, Aunt Shawnette & Uncle Charley, and Uncle Carl. They all came to our house and I got to eat pizza!!! Yum Yum Yum

Practicing my handwriting skills The pool is cool and all, but really I'd rather splash around from the outside, run around the yard, splash around from the outside, run around the yard, splash around.... you get where I'm going with this

Sharing my sidewalk chalk with Aunt Shawnette

This is Baby Charlie - Mommy's friend Lindsey's baby - isn't she cuuuute? I can't wait to play with her when she is bigger.

Week 2

We are into week 2 now on the building remodel and things seem to be going very well. As far as I know, all of the frame work on the ground level is finished and a lot of the floor work for the 2nd level is in place. The heating & air and plumbing crews are there this week with an expected finish time of late Wednesday afternoon. Then come some inspections - everyone cross your fingers for us! I know it's hard to see in some of these pictures what everything is - I sometimes have a hard time myself when I'm inside the building. But I'll do my best to explain.

Bridal dressing rooms - far right is the entrance and four rooms are inside. The front entryways have been cut out - far left is entrance to the floral design area, middle is tuxedo dressing rooms and alterations, and right is entrance to the bridal gown, bridesmaids, etc... space

A bathroom is on each side - going back to tuxedo dressing rooms and alterations

New Building

The remodel on our new store (which Linda's Flowers, Karl's Tuxedos, & Karl's Bridal will all be moving into) began at 6 AM Monday morning. By the time Maddi and I got there at about 8:45, they had already torn down walls in the back warehouse area and were carrying the pieces out to the dumpster. Karl has a tight schedule that hopefully they can all stick to. I heard today that the framing is up for the dressing rooms so I will hopefully get a chance tomorrow afternoon to stop by and see that. I will post new pictures as we go along. Wish us luck!!! Yep, that's a putting green. The previous business was a Turf Supply Company. We're thinking we can do some cool promotions for some prom discounts with that out front.

This will be the front display area for tuxedos and flowers Big empty space soon to be filled with bridal gowns and a design area for the flower shop. They are also building a second level in this space so that we can move our tuxedo inventory into the upstairs area.

Happy Birthday Brooke!

Sunday afternoon we went to Cousin Brooke's 1st birthday party. She got some really cool presents and Maddi was sure to test them all out for her as she was opening them. Cousin Mylee (who was born on the same day as Brooke) will have her party in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to see everyone again!

Yum, Yum, Yum..... chocolate cake

Yep, this one works. Nice present! Went down the slide backwards - didn't hurt a bit!

After we got home from Brooke's party Mom got the bubbles out. I had so much fun trying to catch them.

Following Maddi

Seems a lot of what we do these days is follow Maddi wherever she wants to go. And most of the time that is anywhere outside. I'm not sure she would ever get upset if we just stayed outside all day long.

Isn't this where these sunglasses go? See if you can catch me!

Playing on the new slide

Just chillin with my bear