however, it did turn out (much to our surprise) that K had almost 150 roll over hours (read: a month of PTO) of grandfathered vacation time (in addition to the regular time he has for this year) and he "has to" use at least 80 hours of it by Labor Day --- ummm, OK no problem!
So, he took off 9 days over Memorial Day and is doing the same over July 4th and Labor Day. Pool, Sun and Lounging - here we come!
We had sweet 'stay-cation' over Memorial Day which also happens to by my birthday week and did a lot of sleeping, hanging out, reading and catching up on things that we always seem to busy to do - it was AWESOME!
This year for my birthday we had a fun picnic at a local park - there were about 20 or so of us and Traci and Scott even brought their Eagles Camper for maximum luxury picnic support - that was sweet!
And K is so sweet - he did the most thoughtful thing for me - instead of buying me a material present he made a donation in my name to P.A.W.S so we can help save the lives of some innocent, abandoned, neglected and abused animals - my heart melted b/c that is so in line with what I really care about and a new pair of earrings or purse or whatever is cool but the donation is much cooler to me!
And in BIG NEWS........
Kareem has gotten a huge promotion and substantial raise - which is usually a really big deal but in this economy where people are getting laid off left and right and no one seems to be getting salary increases this is EXTRA HUGE so I am obviously very proud of him and happy that all of his hard work and dedication is paying off! Busy Brantley's but I promise we (meaning I) will try harder to post more throughout the summer b/c we have all kinds of fun stuff going on!
