Rest and Relaxing

Happy Summer! First off, below are pictures from Randy's Grandmother's 70th Birthday Party from the 1st of June. We all met a Ellendale's resturant in Donelson. The food was great and we had an awesome time celebrating with the family!!!

Randy and Grandmother

Grandmother's speech!
Great Grandchild (Austin), Grandchildren (Lyndsay, Taylor, Eric) & Uncle Doug

It has been pretty quiet at the Perry Household. I have been taking vacation days throughout the month of June and Randy actually took the last two weekends off from softball and it has been nice doing family stuff. Austin played a double-header baseball game last Saturday and then his last game of the season is tonight. He has enjoyed playing with this team and has worked on his game. I was happy, he has made some new friends and that is always a bonus.

Oh yeah, speedy (aka Austin) got his first ticket on Tuesday!!! He was going 48 in a 30 in the lovely town of Brentwood, TN. We have been informed by other teenagers and their parent's that I have to go to court with him, he will have to pay the fine, pay to go to traffic school AND lose his license for 3 weeks. Unbelieveable!!! I guess the judge in this county likes to make a statement!!!! Don't get me wrong, he shouldn't have been speeding - I am just upset that now he is again - DEPENDENT (hahaha) on me to drive him everywhere.....

I know everytime I blog I talk about college visits. I guess when you have a rising Senior, that is at the top of the list. He now wants to visit Western KY University. I am going to call schedule the visit. We will make a two day trip out of this, and go to Eastern KY while we are there, save on gas.

Volleyball at school starts on July 7th, we will have two-a-days. Lifting and conditioning from 7am until 9am, then back at 3:30 for workouts at the sand courts. I will be super busy with coaching and games, but I will try and keep up with what is going on around the house. Please continue to pray for our family and please email or call anytime.

Love,

Pat

Honey Do List

Austin was in Arizona visiting my sister last week. He left on Thursday, June 6th and came home on Tuesday of this week. He said he had a great time. He was thinking of going to college at Arizona and I asked him if he thought he could see himself there? He said "NO". I asked why? he said," I need some green in my life, Arizona is brown and boring." Whew!!! I was glad to hear that. Sorry Sis!!!

Still no car for Austin. We have decided with gas prices so high, it is not economical for us to purchase another car at this time. We are going to suffer thru with one car for a few months and see how it goes. He and I go to the same place everyday, so I think we can manage. He isn't happy about the decision, but he understands.

Please continue to pray for the Chapman family. Our hearts are still heavy for this family and they need prayer and more prayer!

"God blesses those people who depend only on him. They belong to the kingdon of heaven! God blesses those people who grieve. They will find comfort." Matthew 5.3-4

On May 26th we started landscaping our front yard. Below are pictures of the beginning, middle and where we are right now. I still have some planting to do, I want to put some flowers around the cherry tree. Randy, Austin and I have worked hard to get this yard to "look" better. I know it has a long way to go but we are happy with what we have accomplished so far.