Friday, June 24, 2011

My First BBQ

Today's theme at work was baseball and I totally forgot I had bought Mike and I both Red Sox shirts when I was in Boston for a CALEA Conference when I worked for the WDM PD - remembered this after I got to work today.  All I could come up with was digging through Mike's caps and found the Milwaukee Brewer's cap I bought for him when I was in Milwaukee August '09 when I trained a support group for our team when working at Wells Fargo.

Our Wellness Committee sponsors a half hour walk every other Friday at 11:30 so today I walked with 7-8 other co-workers before our monthly BBQ.  It was a beautiful day to be outside.


I'm not sure why my photo of Brad grilling didn't load correctly - I wanted you to see our company grill :)  We had a competitive game of bags going with so many points if your bag goes through the hole and some many points if your bag lands on the board.  The first team to 21 wins.  And I learned that there is a regulation distance the bag boards must be apart - who wouda thunk right?!


And you guys thought I was kidding when I said we played fuseball during our BBQ's right - nope.  The gent in the foreground is supposedly the company champ.  Some day I'll get a pic of some peeps playing darts.  FYI this room is also our main conference room, server room for the computer system, game room, dining room when we have BBQ's and it has an overhead garage door that we open on days like today during lunch.

One of my co-workers asked if I'd like to be on a mud volleyball team during the Dallas County Fair.  I never said "yes" even though a little part of me would like to do this.  Today I said I would be their cheerleader along with another co-worker that can't play because of his knee.  And since everyone is aware that I will usually have my camera with me when we do BBQ's, etc., I've become the unofficial company photographer :)

After work I came home to some people scraping the house to get it ready for the HUGE crew of people from my church tomorrow that will be painting!  I am still amazed so many are willing to have a servant's heart to do this project.  Pastor Josh and I were talking before he left tonight - he was the main scraper today - that we are expecting an awesome day tomorrow with everyone.  Trust me - there will be pix :)

I mowed both lawns and Dad did some weed eating to get that out of the way - so the lawn looks great - and by the end of the day tomorrow the house will look great too.

My oldest grandchild - Haleigh - will be graduating from her high school in New York!  It doesn't seem possible - it seems like only a few years ago Mike and I were holding her that first Christmas Casey and his family were able to spend with us when Haleigh was a little over a month old.