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This weekend has been good. My parents are in visiting the little AK 47... anna-kate's code name on the blog. My dad helped dash up the fence yesterday with a top coat of paint with his sprayer. I'm not a fan of the sprayer as its seems to be more hassle than I care to deal with. I'm a brush guy, and a roller guy if the occasion calls for it. I feel I don't have as much control with a spray gun as I do with my good old brush. Plus i find the brush to be therapeutic, i really started to enjoy painting the fence everyday, and not just for the added benefit to my Karate skills. (BTW read Karate as KA... RA... TAE).

I worked on another special project though. We have a path way that goes from our front porch down the front yard to the fence and is supposed to lead to the mail box. The problem is the concrete just stops after the fence. At one point one would think steps existed down the slight slope to the driveway but with time or someones car they disappeared. So I took it upon myself to sort of create steps. I took some cinder blocks and buried them under some dirt. THen put flat stones on top of the buried cinderblocks to give it a more natural look. Then put other big rocks around the steps to give it a natural rock walkway feel. Its a little rough right now but with some grass and some more dirt I think I'll have the desired effect. The trick will be to keep the dirt from washing away, that's what the other rocks are for. I put a lot of rocks into the ground to sort of anchor the dirt. We'll see. So far all my stone pathways that I've created around the house have worked out well, they just take time to sort of settle into their place.

My parents grilled two beer can chickens today for lunch and i must admit they were quite tasty and very moisty. I was a little disappointed because I was hoping for a more beer flavor but i guess its more the moisture that makes the chicken good. Mom also put a lot of good seasoning on the bird that made them nice to the taste buds. I wonder if you stuck a coke up the bird if that would work? Wonder what the taste would be?

We're starting to implement the baby wise regiment to our child. Its hard but in the end it will hopefully make for a better behaved child that is on a schedule. So far her bed time schedule is down pat, her nap schedule needs some work, a lot actually. She's just a little over stimulated right now i think with the visitors and what not. But hopefully this week we'll get her down and into the groove.

Concerned's coming up next weekend which will be cool. He's leaving the coast of GA for the dry desert land out west. I'm a little disappointed but the career move is going to be great for him. It will be hard to not see him as much, granted we haven't seen him as much as we should, GA is just a bigger state than you realize. And he was in Iraq and we were pregnant.. so our travels were both hampered.

Oh and it was our anniversary this past week. Three big old years together. I didn't forget about it, just forgot to blog about it. It was kind of a funny anniversary. We didn't really feel comfortable just yet leaving AK 47 with anyone and our friend Leslie was in town for the week visiting. She offered, generously, to watch her while we go have a night on our own but Wifey's still not ready, which I understand and hear it takes a month or two for the mom to be apart from the child. So the four of us went to Lupis and got it to go (Lupis downtown is sooooo smokey, can't wait for the TN no smoking law in restauarants), and we took it down to miller plaza and ate at the picnic tables. It was nice, except they didn't give us forks, knives, or napkis... and they were calzones. But the man peeing on the Miller Plaza stage was a nice treat as well. So definately not the greatest anniversary but makes for a funny story.

I got the wife a gift card to buy some new clothes and a cd. The wife got me an ipod shuffle speaker system and a picture frame with the pic i posted from a few days ago. The ipod thing didn't work as well as I would have liked so i returned it got a video game. I convinced her to let me since the game was cheaper. The game was Ultimate Spiderman which I'll have a review when I have two seconds to play it... probably in 20 years.

But the greatest gift we have is our little girl. She's doing well and is the cutest baby ever in the history of cute babies.