A Month-Long Update!

Well, somehow a whole month has passed!  Not a whole lot has changed about our lives...except for one little thing.  We'll get to that later.  ;)  Enjoy a month's worth of pictures!

We've gotten to hang out with extended family quite a bit - lots of great cousin time!

Don't ask...or tell. 

Apparently this is a "unicorn mask."  You can tell she doesn't have enough school work to do!

A delicious steak supper at Cloud & Rita's house!

Silliness with Daddy!

Cambree decided to make nshima for lunch one day!

This is what we've been working on for the past month...getting the pool water blue again!

Horseshoes at Shade & Caity's house...this was the longest game EVER.

Sweet girl cousins! 

Plenty of trampoline time!

Caedmon purchased a slip-n-slide!  He asked, "Do you know what that is, Mama?" 

Caedmon and Cason also used all of their hard-earned money to buy supplies to plant their own garden!  It's awesome, although Mama is usually the one who ends up watering it...

We've had a few unit set deliveries, all to warehouses, which makes for EASY unloads! Here's two full sets for Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD.

Hannon & Cambree

Grandpa has a garden too!

This happened once.  Daddy will take her to practice from now on.

More cousin time!

We stayed busy for a few days making and delivering Teacher Appreciation Gifts to some of our kids' amazing teachers!

Cason playing with his second cousin Isaiah!

I smell trouble!

Hanging on the front porch!

Mother's Day was awesome!  Cambree sewed me a new Bible cover and quilted a table mat, Cason got me roses and chocolate, and Caedmon got me a new Nike hat!

The pool's looking good now!

Church is back on (for the youth anyway), so we had a Saturday work day at a house near the lake!  We worked AND had fun!

So grateful to be back to Wednesday night church with our youth!

We've been VERY busy building the house in Bangs.  It has been a true family affair with everyone pitching in when Blu needs us!

Headed to work with Paw!

Caulking!

Eeeww!!

This is the first house Blu's built that actually requires inspections!  He gets so proud every time he passes!  The plumbing inspector said his work looked better than a lot of professional plumbers!  #thankyouZambia

Putting up siding

Painting the top so we can take down scaffolding!

Installing hurricane ties!

Caedmon hauling dirt

More work on siding!

Grandpa (our usual custodian) was the expert insulator!

This house has an awesome loft that will have a spiral staircase going to it!

Paw working hard!

So...the big change in our house...is that we got a dog!  If you know me at all, you are shocked right now.  Meet Perseus Jackson Tidwell aka Percy.  We have had our eye on a neighbor who breeds German Shepherds, so we wrote him about 5 weeks ago to ask if he had any puppies, and they had just been born!  The mom weaned them early, so at 4 weeks old he called and told us to come pick ours out!

Caedmon refused to touch him until he had a bath!

 

A lot of our time is spent on the porch hanging with Percy!

He looks innocent...but I have to set my alarm TWICE to get up in the middle night to let him out of his crate to use the bathroom.  It's like having a newborn!

Taking Percy in the basket to ride over to Mama Dee and Grandpa's house!

 Our May is definitely different than we expected!  Our kids are finishing up their schoolwork this week, and most of our summer events have been cancelled.  We are going to be enjoying the pool, working on various projects this summer, and hopefully taking a little vacation at the end of July!