Whirlwind Weekend!

Now that our rental house is empty - as our tennants broke their lease 6 months early - it left us with a situation at a difficult time for us.  Our sons,  Josh had some of our extra furniture that he doesn't really need - and at the same time - Matt needed an air compressor and a quick crash course into using the paint sprayer for his mother-in-law's kitchen cabinets - so we took off New Year's Day and traveled to East Tennessee and picked up Josh, who then came with us to Matt and Jessie's for the weekend in South Carolina.
Matt had to work the next morning so Josh and Steve went with him and worked for 4 hours to help him finish up a job he was doing.  They did it in record time!!!
Then off to his mother-in-law Ellen's house to work on her kitchen cabinets.  They were installed longest ago, but never painted and Matt wanted to help her out.  Matt had already done a lot of the prep work necessary - which saved some time, and Jessie and I cut cardboard to fit inside the cabinets, and Josh helped tape them out.  Matt went from the garage, (where Steve was busy getting ready to spray primer on the cabinet doors) to the kitchen to oversee and help in both places.  All of us worked for a few hours to help him prepare to spray. 
Jessie and I left a little early, which was really late, (about 7 pm) to work on dinner while the guys stayed to finish up and spray the first coat of primer before they left for the night.
Earlier that day Jessie and I shopped at The Fresh Market, and got already prepared and ready to bake - chicken cordon blue.  YUM!  I was craving it!!!  Jessie is such an awesome cook!!! 
Nearly an hour and a half - the guys came home from Ellen's house - and by then the dinner was ready to serve.  It was sooo worth the wait too!
We visited some before retiring for the night - which was so long overdue!  Josh hadn't seen Matt in over 2 years!  Wow!  I didn't realize that it had been that long ago!!!
The next morning we attended their church service, had lunch an awesome Chinese restaurant, said our good byes and traveled back to East Tennessee to drop Josh at at his temporary home, pick up our trailer we had dropped when we first picked him up - and loaded up the furniture, said good bye - and took of toward home - 4 hours away.  We finally got home late last night!  Talk about a whirlwind weekend!  Soo tired - but soo worth the visit!  I miss them all!!!