Front Porch Friday

Another week has gone by and it is time for another Front Porch Friday! :) I love FPF's! I'm sure you are wondering what the heck is Front Porch Friday!?!?! FPF started a while back when my parents volunteered at Chestnut Square in McKinney (it is a Historic Village where you can tour the old houses that have been donated or go to the Farmers Market on the weekends http://www.chestnutsquare.org/). Workers/Volunteers would show up on Friday nights ready to help fix up the historic homes that are on the property or just clean up around the property. While everyone was working a few of the ladies (my mother being one) would cook dinner. By the time dinner was ready everyone was done with their chores! We would gather on the big wrap around porch on one of the houses and have dinner and adult beverages and enjoy each others company.


Since none of us volunteer at Chestnut Square anymore, we have moved the FPF idea to whatever house we are working on around town. For the past year or so we have been having FPF at Ms. J's house since we were working on her house. We really have a lot of fun enjoying the company more than anything. One FPF the kids and Steph and I had fun with a box on her porch....


It started with just Lauren and I sitting in the box waving at cars to see who would honk or wave back...

Then it turned into more... Steph moved us (as best she could)...

To the edge of the porch... here is where it gets interesting...She positioned us just right to make our adventure look more realistic...

And then positioned the fan so that it looked like an action shot! YEP we were on a rollercoaster down the stairs! we didn't really slide down the stairs...but as cars drove by we flung our hands up and pretended we were screaming on a rollercoaster down the stairs... it was sooo funny the looks we go from people and how many people honked at us!

Once we were done playing Steph and I joined the adults to have an adult beverage and enjoy the rest of the night! hahaha...


So now that I have my own house and LOTS of projects to work on FPF has moved to my house! :) If you know where I live and don't mind a little work or getting dirty please feel free to stop by! You never know what Mom has cooking or what fun/silliness we will come up with! I hope to have some fun memories from my Front Porch Friday nights! oh wait! we do have one from last weeks Front Porch Friday!

My Aunt and Uncle stopped by for a surprise visit and brought me some champagne to celebrate... Jared, April and I spent about 10 minutes trying to get the cork out of the bottle with no luck and ended up breaking the cork... so with a little help from dad and a little redneck enginuity we got that cork out by drilling a screw into the cork and pulling it out with pliers... and were able to celebrate... I will have to post the video once I get a copy from Mom! ;)

well until next time....