Small Groups are back

Tonight we met with our couples small group for our summer semester.  We are going to be reading Crazy Love, but tonight we just played some games which was a lot of fun.  We caught M&Ms in our mouths, played a Newly Wed kind of game, and just caught up together. 
The game had questions like "When was the last time he bought you flowers?" and "Who do you mutually know that has the most tattoos?"  It was a lot of fun.
Our group seems like it's getting smaller but this past weekend we spent time with one couple who is no longer in our group, and went to our group leader's house warming party.  We are really starting to find couple friends in the city that we enjoy spending time with.

I decided not to do my couponing group this semester as I plan to join our church's running group, and with our new business that would make every week night booked.

GREAT weekend for all!

Of course I got sick this past week, most likely due to stress planning for this weekend.  So I probably owe my husband a better anniversary night because Tuesday I was so drowsy that I almost passed out on our fancy dinner.

SURPRISE! was this weekend.  My mom turned 50 on Friday, and we threw her one heck of a surprise party!  One side of my family from Florida has a cabin in a little town called Murphy, North Carolina.  But my mom's parents and siblings live in West Virginia so I found a campground for them to stay at, while the family in Florida squeezed into the cabins that we have there. 
I thought of a great idea to distract my mom and put together a small photo scavengar hunt for our "shopping" day downtown.  Then when we came back everyone had parked their cars down the road and hid behind the garage.  People came out one by one from behind the garage saying happy birthday and my mom was not only happy and surprised but was worried that there was no room for everyone to sleep. =D  Good thing I took care of that ahead of time.
So we spent the rest of the day and Saturday eating great food and enjoying the outdoors together, which was great weather compared to Florida.  The only bad part was that Flo and Zeus got several ticks, but we got them off fast.

So after the drive home Sunday, hubby and I decided to stay in the Ocala area and go tubing since we didn't do much for our anniversary.  The beginning of the day ended up being crazy as we broke things trying to back for our trip. Then we decided to do the 5 hour tubing trip, which ended up being way to long.  My camera got broken and we are really burnt and tired, but it was a good time. 
Rainbow River is clear pretty much the whole way down the river, and we saw otters and fishes kept touching my toes. =)

So glad it was a successful weekend, and my mom didn't expect a thing!!

Ewww, fish!

FLO smells rancid!  Oh my goodness, "like dead fish and baby poop combined" according to the hubby.
This morning I left Flo outside while I got dressed and read a little bit. When I went out to get her she was sitting by the door like normal but I noticed dirty on her face.  I went to rub it off and smelt something so I bent over closer and almost passed out she smelled soooo bad.  I put her in her crate for awhile and then the stench started spreading throughout the house so she went on the back porch and I started looking up how to get the smell out.  (I think the smell might have actually been from a dead fish, as I have seen them once or twice in the neighborhood from the hawks and owls.)
I scrubbed Flo three times with dog shampoo while trying to hold my breath, and it didn't help much because when Tyler came home he went to smell her and said he almost threw up.  So she got in the shower with my husband, he tried lemon juice, backing soda, dish soap, and vinegar. 
It's a little better but we have to get going to a party so she will be in her crate for a while. Sorry Flo, you did this to yourself.  And of course I had put the frontline on her yesterday.