Busy week at The Garon's house

We've had a busy, but productive week at our house.

The roofers came Monday and started striping off the old roof while we were in Lafayette at the golf tournament. That meant that Danny had to hit the floor running Tuesday. He ended up replacing 15 sheets of plywood on the roof before the roofers could start with the new roof. They finished the roof Wednesday evening at about 5:00. I'm so glad the banging stopped.
We also had men here working in the yard, getting it cleaned up. That was a chore since we had so much material from our remodeling (that's not finished yet) :o(
While all of this was going on, some tree guys stopped by and asked if we wanted them to get some dead limbs out of our trees. Danny said sure...God sent these men...we have had Danny's old white truck sitting in the driveway for over a year and a Nova with no engine since we moved in here. The guys asked what we were going to do with the truck...Danny told them "you haul it you can have it". IT'S GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and they're coming back for the Nova!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do I need to say anything else????

Now for the inside...I got the computer room, laundry room, and my room cleaned. These rooms catch the clutter when you need to clean a room fast because company is coming over. Well, they are put back together for now. Everything in it's place. I don't expect this to last too long.

Last, but not least...I have washed clothes for 2 solid days. When I tell you the machines did not stop until after I had fallen asleep each night, I am not lying. I think we have too many clothes!!!!! NOT!!!

Busy, but productive. It feels soooooo good to have all of this finished. Now I can go back to work next week with a little less stress.

PBS Golf dominates!

Parkview's golf team played in the Teurlings Catholic Mardi Gras Classic at Acadian Hills Country Club in Lafayette yesterday. They won by 24 strokes and Brandt took 1st place overall. The boys each got plaques and will receive golf wind shirts. Brandt got a plaque and a new putter. When you play as a team, 5 players play and they take the top 4 scores. The exciting thing was we threw out a 75 (par was 71). All of our boys performed. We had a 72, 3-74's, and 1-75. This is not the norm in High School.
CONGRATULATIONS EAGLES!!!!

Winter Break has begun!

Yes! PBS is off a week for Winter Break. It will be busy, but a good busy.

Got a little golf going on. Monday the PBS Golf team will be in the Teurlings Golf Tournament in Lafayette, so we will go down Sunday, play a practice round and spend the night. Then Thursday they have a match at Pelican Point, in Gonzales.

Tuesday I am having lunch friends. Faith McNabb is a friend that I grew up with, her mom was Daddy's secretary for years. She and her husband are missionaries to China and she will be going back Thursday, so some of us are getting together for lunch before she goes back. I can't wait.

We are getting a new roof on the house this week too. We had hail damage, but had not gotten the roof replaced, then came Gustav. So now, months later, we are finally replacing the roof. I won't get to sleep late that day :(

Other than that, I will be cleaning house. It's a wreck! We only need about 1000 more square feet, so I'm going to try to clean out closets and cabinets. We'll see!! I have great intentions...

Great Weekend!

We had a busy, but great weekend!

Brandt was in the Beaver Creek Junior Classic. He shot well, but just not good enough to win. He took 3rd place. He went into
Sunday with a 71, 2 strokes behind the leader, but just couldn't get it together to make the move needed to win. He has nothing to be ashamed of though. His bad day on the golf course was still only 2 over par, making him 1 over for the weekend. It just wasn't his weekend. Tomorrow's another day! :=)

Then, our niece, Marisa Landry, got married Saturday. Marisa is Danny's sister's oldest daughter. For those of you that don't know, Peggy (Danny's sister) passed away about 7 years ago from brain cancer. She was not only my sister-in-law, she was one of my best friends. It was a beautiful wedding and Marisa found a great man. I know Peggy would have loved him.

My house is a wreck, didn't cook all weekend, clothes need washing, papers need grading, lesson plans need to be written...weekend with family...GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!!

Check out the golf cart. I call this "Mom's Paradise". Talk about staying warm.

Ok! I take it back!!!

My, oh, so humble, son is making me eat my words.

The last day of signing for High School football player was the other day and of course we had news/sports people on campus to film the signings of a few PBS players. One of the them was walking just in front of Brandt and a friend and she turned around to ask where the gym was. Of course, Brandt tells her, "I'm Brandt." She said, no your not, I know who Brant is (football player who was signing that day), he said, "no I'm Brandt Garon, the golfer...google me... I'll be there." Then he just walked off.

Danny made over...it's scary!

Trying Something New

As many of you know, I don't cook much. Matter of fact, I spend more time trying to figure out a reason not to cook than if I would just get up and go do it. When we were building our house on S. Harrell's Ferry Rd., we were out there working one Sunday afternoon and a couple stopped by to look. After they looked around we began talking to them and the lady said, "I don't want to be too nosey, but I noticed your countertops were in but, you didn't have a stove". Well that's all Danny needed to hear, he told her, "My wife doesn't really cook, so we decided to save money and not put one in this house." That's my Danny!

Anyway, I have cooked all day today and I'm going to put it in the freezer so all I have to do is pull it out and heat it up. New concept for me, but I'm willing to try anything...well, just about anything once.

This is going to be a crazy week and I got tired just thinking about what the evenings were going to be like, so I knew I wasn't going to want to cook. Metro golf (school) starts and they play Tuesday and Wednesday, papers to grade, grades have to be in for progress reports, practice round Friday, AJGT at Beaver Creek, Sat. and Sun, Marisa & Jason's wedding Sat. afternoon, then I do have to teach some this week.

Well, we're gonna try it. If it bombs, they can't say I didn't try.

Ranked 4th in Louisiana Jr. Golf

Yes, and his mom and dad had no idea. We had to be told by a dad at the golf course yesterday.

Brandt is ranked 4th in Louisiana Junior Golf out of 113 golfers. He is 692 in the United States out of 5834. I am speechless! We knew he was good, but we have never wanted to be "those parents"... you know the ones that brag about how good their kids are but they really aren't. I would always remind myself of what Lee would tell the parents at the beginning of each volleyball season, "Your daughter is not and will never be as good as you think she is". So I would tell myself, he's not as good as YOU think he is. Your his MOM!!!! I know, it's crazy.

The funny thing about all of this, he acts like it's no big deal. He's so humble! I just pray he stays that way.

God is good and we thank him each day for his many blessings. If you remember, we've been told twice in his lifetime that he would not make it through the night. The first being the day he was born. He was 5 weeks early and had lung problems. I remember Dr. Hill coming in and saying, "Carol, I just wish he were a girl, they fight so much harder than boys". The second, after he was hit in the head with a softball at one of Danny's games. He was 7 years old. The nurse kept coming in telling us, "the doctor said it doesn't look good". Later we found out the doctors had given him about a 10 % chance of making it that night. After 16 hours on a ventilator, he woke up like nothing had ever happened.

Our prayer is that God will use him and his talent to glorify the Lord.