20171115 + Icing on the Cake

20171115 + Up and in to work. At lunch I ran to the Scout store to get awards.  Printed off all the programs for the Court of Honor this weekend.  Home and D at work, LJG&I had dinner together and then L went to meet Marlene for coffee and to get her snow pants. G&I finished his cake for the auction tomorrow night. I then installed a new router in the basement.

20171114 - 2 Chefs

20171114 - Up and L&D to Wilmington College for a visit. I worked at home today, got a lot done. G home for a sec and back to the school to play a bit. J home and got his robe on did homework. L&D home and told all about the school, they LOVED it. After dinner G&I baked a bunch of cakes in prep for the upcoming Scout Fellars Cake Auction. I then headed to Scouts for a Board of Review. Home and up late getting the awards entered and getting the program ready for this weekend.

20171113 - No Lanes Open

20171113 - Up in the am and in through the cold for a long workday. Home and D&J to Scouts. G had basketball practice.  I went to pick him up and we swung by Meijer to get him some new boots for the campout he is going on with his big brothers this weekend. We then swung by scouts to get advancements and check in.  Home and hung out a little bit before turning in.

20171112 - Robed Scootin

20171112 - LJG&I to Church, D to work. We attempted to go to Waffle House for lunch, too crowded, ended up at Big Boy. Home and J&I got changed and added some antifreeze to the white car and headed out to help with a Scout Eagle project. Project was digging hole, setting post and stringing rope and wire to make a BB Gun range. L&G headed to G's scrimmage in New Albany. Project was well organized and went smooth, D stopped by after work. J&I headed to Home Depot to get parts to fix the washing machine drain (white car not overheating :-) Home and J fixed the washing machine on his own then rode his scooter for a bit. I fluffed up the fire extinguishers and mounted them. L&G home, G did good, D working on ACT prep stuff all afternoon. L cooked us some dinner and we headed to the basement to watch "" it was a good action flick. After the move L nodded off, D went back up to study, JG&I watched a couple of episodes of 'Galavant'. No friends came over for to watch The Walking Dead, but DJ&I watched it, it was good. D up late working on ACT prep, I tried to help, math is WAY beyond me... Up late working on a college grid.

20171111 + Final Touches

20171111 + Up late and J&I installed a trailer hitch G&I installed a wiring harness in the new car. J out riding around town, D&G out to D-Bats. J home and helped me install a Bra to cover the cracks on the front end. All home to McClains to hang out and relax. Home not too late, exhausted and out.

20171110 - Veteran's Day

20171110 - Up and ready for the day. Working partial day from home so got morning things done. Gma&paB showed up and we headed to Jack's school for the Veteran's Day program, J did good introducing GpaB and the doing the Flag Folding ceremony. Home and GpaB & I were heads down working on our PC's until L got home and then we all went to lunch. After lunch I dropped L & Gma&paB off at G's school then took the car home where I met D who was home for the day because he gave blood. D&I walked back to the school and watched G's Veteran's Day assembly, quite emotion seeing all these little kids and hearing them sing in addition to this being G's last one :-( D ran off to see his old teachers. Home and Gma&paB left, I took a nap before the boys got home. Everyone home and D & DGF7 making more deep fried desserts and then headed out to be with friends all night. J headed out to a friends bday party, LG&I went to see Daddy's home. We were going to get something to eat but all ate too much popcorn so skipped dinner. Home and we pulled up the first Daddy's home and watched that. I ran and picked up J from his bday party, he had a good time. Up till 4am for an emotional night sending 11/11 letters, 47 this year.

20171109 + Fog Wall

20171109 + Up and forgot my phone at home so 2 trips to get to work this morning and through a fog wall. headed over to our offsite storage location for an audit.  Headed home and swung by D-Bats to watch G in his hitting league. We headed home and swung through Burger King to pick up some dinner. We ate fast then G&I to Scouts and had a good meeting.

20171108 - Sneaky Presentation

 20171108 - Up in the am and in to work. Home and G disappeared to the basement to do his presentation for school. JG&I headed out to some stores to do our annual Santa scan. Home and D made dessert that was pretty good and we were up late dealing with college stuff.

20171107 - Sick Boy G

20171107 - Up in the am and in to work. I left L&G at home as G was sick.

20171106 - 3 of a Kind

20171106 - UP in the am and the boys had no school today, L did and I had to work. I was able to work from home in am and picked DeVonn up at airport and we headed towards the office.  We met Justin for lunch and then went on to meet Mike at our offsite storage location. Finished the day in the office. D took his new gun shooting, L went to Dr. about her finger, she sliced it 3 times trying to relieve pressure, no luck so strong antibiotics. L took J&G shopping. I got home D at DGF7's and G at basketball practice. LJ&I ate and hung out until D got home to pick up J for Scouts. L ran to get G and pick up her antibiotics. All home eventually and winding down. I headed out to Bible Bangers on my own tonight, Doc not feeling well.

20170105 + Dylan Eagle Court of Honor

Up in the am and got all my paperwork done for the week. We got everything loaded and everyone ready for D's Eagle Court of Honor. Gma&paB stopped by the house before and gave him his gift, awesome Henry Golden Eagle rifle. We then headed to the church and got things set up. L had everything planned out and it looked fantastic. The ceremony started and went off without a hitch. It was a beautiful ceremony that flowed nicely and wehn D got his chance to address the crowd of people that showed up that had been a part of his life at present and in past events it really hit him. He got very emotional and I think it finally hit him how important this life milestone was... After the ceremony L had nice refreshments and snacks for folks and everything went smooth.

Home for a bit to unload the video and change and hen out for a nice dinner with Gma&paW. Home and we looked at D's new gun and the scrapbook GmaW put together for him with all the letters from famous folks and big companies from all over the country.  What a super nice day!

20171104 - Ragnorok

20171104 - Up in the am and doing final prep on Eagle Stuff for tomorrow. At the desk and paid bills for next 2 weeks. D gone, J out on the town with friends, L&I on back porch watching OSU in the afternoon until we got too cold. We headed in and the buckeyes were losing bad so JG&I bailed and went to see the new Thor - Ragnorok movie, it was great! We got Arby's on the way home and had a feast.