Warning! Picture Overload!

First up…Dollywood on Wednesday.  The K-man and I went with K & A and their boys.  I was planning on taking the Munchkin, too, but that didn’t work out.

So the pics (what few I have without K-man’s face…the ones with his face showing are HERE):

All the boys riding the bee and reflections of the flying elephants (LOL)

More flying elephant reflections and K & Vi riding one of them there flying elephants.  Vi was not a fan.  This was at the beginning of the ride and he spent the rest of it with his head buried in his mama’s lap.  Poor kid.  LOL!

The boys in the pig ride…and then me taking K-man and G on the spinning whirly thing…forget what it was called.  They loved it…laughed and giggled the whole time…I almost fell getting out though from all that spinning.  Hah!

Seriously though…there’s me and four little heads in that teacup there…and THIS was the ride that made us all a little nauseous!  K-man during the last few spins just sat there and moaned, “I’m gonna throw UP.”  (Thankfully, he didn’t, although the other boys scooted away from him real fast…hahah!)

The train…by far the K-man’s favorite.  He was so tired by this point that he could barely stay awake, but as his head kept drooping, he was like, “Allllll a…boooarrrrd….”  We were laughing, but in the last 5 minutes of the ride, he could last no longer and knocked out.
 
K & A on the train with me & all our kids.  By the end of the ride, only one of the four boys was still awake. LOL!  C, the kid in the second pic here was the only boy awake and this pic was on the playground right before we left.
 

And these pictures are totally non-Dolly related, but they are just pics I snapped as we were on our way home that evening.  I am a SUCKER for red barns.  Something about them just makes me feel all nostalgic, although I have no idea why.  All I know is I just love them!  And when I see them, I want to take pictures.  So I do.  See?

And okay.  Now that that is done with, here are some MORE pictures…hehehe!

First off…see how the deck and backyard is coming along?  Don’t know if you remember, but you can see this post for some pics of it in progress. 

It’s still in progress, but it’s getting a LOT closer!

Today was exhausting.  Planting, burning brush and scrap decking bits and pieces, leveling off some of the piles of dirt in the yard…I’m beat!  And that pile of gravel is still pretty large.  *sigh*  SOON…very soon!  It’s getting there.

Here’s a before and after shot of a little piece of the potting project I did today.  I took an old clay pot just like the one in the first picture, cleaned it, and spray painted it black.  Then sprinkled a bit of sparkly silver spray paint lightly over it and, ta-da….the black pot showing in the second pic….nice, huh?

And last, but CERTAINLY not least: The new phone.  Alias 2.  I am LOVIN it!

It’s got a double hinge…and look at the buttons…see how they change when you open it in the different directions?  Texting is so fast now!  ;-)

And that’s it.  Didn’t I mention that I was tired?  I have GOT to get to bed!