Pranksters after our gathering

Well we decided to have a little gathering this weekend, to show off the deck of course, with the pretty new blue chairs I bought at work, they work pretty good out there except when you sit on them and your hair gets stuck to the brick on the house! Yes I think eventually a different set of chairs will be better out there and these will end up in the yard!

oh my reason for this post was to show a few photos of the nearly complete front deck and the surprise we got after our little gathering

We made this to show my bestest friend Donna who lives in CA, since we are in OH we like to share videos with her and this was a video moment LOL

so who are the pranksters behind this latest escapade, who you ask would do such a thing? to try and scare the bejeebers out of us when we open the blinds in the morning?

oh yes, the guilty parties sitting right there on my couch!

the lovely sister and that good lookin neighbor that it took me a year to convince them they were a perfect match together, see aren't they cute! (revenge is sweet remember that you two)

back to the deck

 the "spy girl" was put there as a joke for the neighbor, he calls this the spy house, so I had to buy that, its solar and I told him she would keep an eye on him when I wasn't here to do it!!

it's almost all done, haven't decided what kind of railing I want, hubby wants rope strung between the posts, not sure I am on board with that but time will tell I guess

Finally building a new front deck

First had to get rid of the cement slab that used to be the front stoop because it really was only big enough for just a couple chairs

I had such a pretty yard until the guys decided instead of breaking up the cement slab that they would take it off and use it somewhere on the farm

You see how that worked out, tore up the yard, oh well, that's the way it goes when you try to fix one thing, you end up with two more to fix, it all gets done in time though.

piles of treated lumber for the new front deck

I didn't get as many photos because I was actually working and forgot

this level of the deck was done yesterday so we need to get to the lower level off to the right yet

Cousins gathering back in Grandma's rocks/woods

It's that time again, us cousins grew up living beside each other, we are like brothers/sisters more than cousins and we love to gather back in the rocks in grandma's woods, everyone brings a covered dish OR we just do dogs n burgers on the fire, sit around and catchup on gossip

 one cuz has a new wife

 and the sister has a new boyfriend tee hee remember that handsome neighbor

 yup this time it decided it would rain on us, that's ok we still had a blast as usual