The KC Orchestra started playing the Eat Beef song, I had to record and share!
Celebration at the Station 2009
Fireworks behind Liberty Memorial
United States seal for the Navy. For my Gramps!
Me and Jas
Johnny and Shanny
Love this picture of the 2 flags..
Me and Layla
Jessica and Layla
Riley, Shanny's little sister, so cute!
Shanny drinking her beverage from a red vine...A group of us headed to Celebration at the Station this year! If you have never been, you need to go next year! We had so much fun just relaxing, eating, and enjoying the music by the KC Orchestra. The weather was perfect and the night ended with some of the best fireworks I have ever seen!
Family Fun!
Reece, hammin' it up!
Richard, Monica, and Hunter
Me and Jas and one good margarita!
the whole group!!
Chunky boy...but so lovable!
This is how Aunt Shona kept Hunter occupied while she tried to get ready...
Bath time.
Eating at the table!
Shelli and Hunter spent the weekend with Jason and I a few weeks ago! We had so much fun. Friday night we played, and played and played. He is growing up so fast and does something new every second, it seems like anyway. We went to Legends on Saturday along with Dad, Laurie, Monice, Richard, and Reece and took the kiddos to T-Rex-I think we had as much fun as they did. Hunter is running all over the place and it is never a dull moment!
Ta-Da!!!! The Finished Product...
Here it is, the finished product! We can't wait to enjoy all of it! Right down to the crab on the patio; Melly bought that for me for Mother's Day. Isn't it cute?
And I hope our family and friends can come over to enjoy it too. I would like to do a bit more landscaping, but all in good time!!
Stay Tuned!!
Really wanted to post the final product for you tonight but it's raining so you are just going to have to wait until tomorrow! But, in the meantime, you can see where we started and what we have done. We have been working on this project since the beginning of March and are very happy with the results!! We have also done a lot with our landscaping! It seems the projects never end around here...
A few preview pics...
Ok, so this was the first area of the patio project that we tackled. We started by digging up a 12'x6' section of sod next to the wonderful concrete slab we have...not fun by the way. We bought just regular old pavers to enclose the area and filled it in with pea gravel! The larger center stone is a reddish color and that's where our chiminea sits. By the way, all of the limestone rock you see, found it in the back yard. Actually it was dug up when our sod was laid! No one said we couldn't take it :)
more sod digging....
...and because we loved digging up sod, we decided to go out another foot all the way around the slab and add more pavers. We wanted the two area's to look and feel as if they were one. Worked very well by the way. Notice the 2 larger red stones, those are for flowers pots! As you can see, we worked all hours; morning, night, rain, whatever. We were determined!the ugly "slab"
We really wanted to create a design in the patio leaving a focal point. Jason started by cutting out the diamond shape you see. Did you know you can stain concrete? It's soooo cool! We bought 2 colors; red rocks and tuscan sun. We stained the corners with red rocks and the center with tuscan sun and sort of blended the two together. Very easy by the way and the result was fabulous! You may have noticed in the last picture there is an area for the grill...yes, more sod digging and more pavers. Jason did that one day while I was at work to surprise me. Very sneaky that boy!
The stairs...BLAH
Next, the stairs, gross! Had to get rid of the ones we had and vamp them up a bit! Jason made a new handrail out of iron...you can see him welding it together above. I really wanted a sun in the center of the handrail and of course, he did it! He also made the stairs smaller so they wouldn't take up so much space. We found the perfect stain, red mahogany, and went to town! They turned out gorgeous! Our theme is sort of tuscan...reds and yellows. Happy 2nd Anniversary!
Yes, this is a self portrait, but those are the best anyway. Jason and I went to J. Alexanders for our 2 year anniversay last weekend. If you haven't been, you need to go. Yummy appetizers and really great entrees. I had crab cakes...delicious! Oh and the wine isn't bad either!
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