The McMillins

Yesterday, Corey turned 31!! Gretchen made his favorite muffins, banana w/ caramel on top, and made his favorite homemade mocha coffee that he likes. His Bible Study group came over to the house and they shared this breakfast with him and then had a good bible study. It started raining during their bible study and then it ended up pouring all day long. It was an answer to Corey's prayer b/c he always talks about how it NEVER rains. He likes his yard to look nice and green. Then, Corey got to play his video game all day long and then Gretchen and Corey studied Matthew 24 together for 2 hours.

Gretchen had made plans to go to dinner with our friends, Doug and Leslie and their 2 kids. So, we went to dinner at 4:30 p.m. Then, they were going to come back to our house and we were going to have some cake and ice cream. Well, Gretchen forgot the ice cream. So, Doug and Corey went to go get ice cream while Leslie and Gretchen went back to the house. While they were getting ice cream, Gretchen had secretly gotten his other friends and our neighbor to come over to the house for a surprise party for Corey's birthday. He was soooo surprised! He absolutely LOVED it!

Gretchen has been sick for the past week. She's had a lot of sinus pressure, headache and some coughing... not to mention the congestion. Zach has been sick as well with a really bad cough. Fortunately, they are both getting better now. Gretchen felt absolutely horrible and couldn't do anything with Zach. Zach was allowed to watch TV all day b/c all Gretchen could do is lay down. Corey did very well in helping with breakfast and trying to take care of Zach as much as he could even though he had to work. He also made dinner for everyone before he went to work. Gretchen felt some relief knowing that she didn't have to do some of those things and could just lay down.

Gretchen thought she was doing better and decided to help Corey wash/ clean the truck. (both inside and outside) After vaccuming the inside and cleaning everything inside, Gretchen didn't feel very good and had to lay down. Sometimes, we think we're better than we really are.

Corey had Bible Study at the house yesterday. Max decided to spray on the couch 15 minutes before everyone came over. So, Gretchen had to clean that up while Corey was finishing up edging the yard so that the guys would notice how nice the yard looked. lol Later in the afternoon, we watched "Left Behind III: World at War". It was really good!

Sorry there aren't any pictures. The website won't let us download them. We're contacting someone to find out what's wrong. :)

We woke up yesterday morning to cat spray on our black leather couch. Of course we knew who the culprit was.... MAX. He has done this before. Gretchen took him to the vet when we first moved down here b/c he was doing that. It turned out that he had a UTI. So, we had to give him some pills to kick the infection. It worked. He stopped spraying on the couch. We think it's a UTI again b/c he is going to the bathroom A LOT and he keeps cleaning a certain part of himself. So, Gretchen is taking him to the vet today. He's already sprayed the couch twice today.

While Gretchen is taking the cat to the vet, Corey is taking Zach and going to fill his scuba tanks. He's going scuba diving tomorrow and is SOOO excited. We're hoping that he will catch some fish that we can throw on the grill. Free food.... gotta love it! Corey just got a new spear gun that he REALLY wanted. This will be his first time trying it out.

The other night we went to a Japanese Steakhouse. It was Gretchen's first time going. It was really cool watching the guy cook in front of us and especially the fire that he had go right in front of us. Plus, he made a volcano out of an onion. It was fun and interesting. Zach seemed to really enjoy it. We went with our friends, Mike and Kim, and their 2 girls who are age 6 and 4. Zach seems to really like playing with their 2 girls.

There's a movie theatre that has free movies on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings during the summer for the kids. So, yesterday we went to see the movie "Polar Express". Gretchen brought some snacks for Zach in case he wasn't interested in the movie but he did really well. It was his first time at a movie theatre and he didn't budge once! He watched the ENTIRE movie and didn't want it to end when it did end. We think the big screen and the good movie contributed to his paying attention to it.

Corey got his birthday present early! Gretchen and Zach gave him a stainless steel grill. The old grill started smoking and almost burned the house down. So, we got him the grill that he wanted.