Also, it wouldn't be a true Dad's Day without some work and swearing. Nona and I got up early, both lucky to get the day off and began work on are always shabby backyard. Although in the last few years if you saw it from beginning to end there has been a dramatic change (thanks to BVT2 and kids) and we're still workin!
We have lots of crazy over grown pyracantha and rose bushes, we started hacking and trimming but it took quite a while to even make a dent. This is where the swearing comes in......
About eleven or twelve years ago, on a similar project, Dad, Betsy, Katie and I were trimming bushes and a cherry tree. Dad has a shed he built out with electricity and everything. So, before we were allowed to begin work we needed a lesson in how not to cut the electric wiring he had running from the house to the shed. Which Dad started by saying 'be very careful and you have to avoid cutting the wires or you might get shocked', and 'see do it just like this.....'. Suddenly Dad got zapped when he clipped both wires. Then a few swear words later and a look at the clippers that now had a little charred hole in them, we couldn't help but laugh at him and bug him about it the rest of the day. He even thought it was pretty funny.
Anyway, so while Mom and I are working she decided to run inside for drinks and I was still outside with the electric bush trimmer. I suddenly see wires whip passed my face and immediately tangle up in the trimmer. Scared for my life I drop the trimmer, now attached to the wires. Needless to say, being my father's daughter I also said a few words. There was no shock but backing up slowly I look to see where the wires are attached, lo and behold the very wires that used to run electricity to the shed. Luckily for me Dad had clipped them a few years earlier.
My sweet friends Brooke Shannon and Krista decided to throw me a Bachelorette party at a condo in Park city, with presents, Cafe Rio, chatting and tons of fun! We stayed up way to late hot tubbing, visiting and telling stories. It was super fun. Thanks girls! The same awesome friends had a 'Man Shower' for Colby the night before, also in Park City. We played some Wii games, Rock Band, went to dinner and even presents, just the kind of party Colby enjoys. These girls sure know us, thanks yet again!
We were lucky enough to get to have Mom in town a few weeks before the wedding. Then about a week before Ben Betsy and the kids came into town. It was a regular party, I pretty much had almost everything ready by they time they got here. So we all mostly spent our time, they way I like it, hanging out visiting eating and playing games.
