Oh my what a week we have had. I will tell you all about it this week in future posts. I will be here all night if I try to cover it all now so… for the most fresh memories in the name of Father’s day.

So we had all of Wayne’s kids and my Mom and Dad (aka Nana and Papa had planned to come and spend the day with us for father’s day. We were all going to have supper together, and my Dad was going to make his world famous Greek ribs on the BBQ.

Back track to Saturday. Saturday afternoon I get send to the city to buy a new burner for our BBQ since the current one had decided to bite the big one on Friday night. So I go to the city, can’t find a f**kin’ burner anywhere. But since I’m at Walmart I might as well buy some flowers for the empty flower baskets in my yard. With all the extra help tomorrow I’ll surely get to plant them! Now this BBQ is not that old and it wasn’t that cheap either so I figured there has to be something out there that will work. Off to store #2. NO burner. So I buy a "universal burner". I go home to find the shed still not painted (teenager have to be the slowest painters this side of Mars) and a cranky husband in the house with the girls, upset because he "hasn’t been able to do anything all day"! Gee I wonder why! So I go outside scoop out several years of BBQ residue and dismantle the BBQ only to find that the universal BBQ burner is NOT universal. By this time everyone is getting hungry, so I clean out the old burner in the hopes that it will give us one last hurraah. We light it up and there is flame, not good flame but flame. So we figure if we heat it long enough our burgers should cook. Off to the kitchen to create the burgers. Once on the BBQ no cooking will occur. What did we do you ask, well we all agreed that frying burgers is gross so we pretended like we were at the camp ground and added wood to our metal box with a lid and a grill and lit a fire. Boy they were good burgers, even better due to the amount of laughter that accompanied them.

On to Sunday, so we all knew that a new BBQ was necessary (funny when looking for a burner the thought had crossed my mind to just buy a new BBQ). So the plan was for me to go to the city early Sunday morning and get a BBQ then set it up while Nana and Papa were here to tend to the girls. Wouldn’t you know it, because I planned on the regular 6:30-7am wake up call the girls slept in until 9:10. So by the time I fed them etc it was late and Mother nature had decided that Sunday was a good day to give us all of the alloted rain for the year in one day. It was raining so hard Mom and Dad said they could hardly see the road. So it was decided that the BBQ could wait.

Later, the rain stopped and I got to thinking, picking up a BBQ with twin babies would be hard enough never mind trying to set it up with no extra help. So as the rain slowed down I jumped into the truck and made my way back to good ol’ Walmart, got the best cheap BBQ they had (which wasn’t much worse that the $350 variety) and made my way home. So now its 4:30 and I’ve set up BBQs before I figure an hour at most and we’ll be rolling. Yeah!

An hour later, Dad came down stairs to help me and we finished setting up the BBQ together, we got extra practice too b/c while I was tending to Kassie Dad put the side pieces on backwards (facing the back of the BBQ) and we therefore assembled the remainder backwards only to realize this as we put in the last screw, so off it all came and re re-assembled the last half of the job in record time. Then Dad began the ribs. By then it was already almost 7pm, so needless to say our rainy Father’s day BBQ  dinner was a little later than we had planned. But Boy was it good, I didn’t call them world famous for nothing. Definitely worth the trouble. Those ribs just don’t taste the same when their broiled. And now we have a decent BBQ that should get us through another couple years of year round grillin’.