House Updates...

Turns out, paint prepping is neither fast nor exciting. We had to let our original painter go and had to wait 3 weeks for our new hire to get going. In the meantime, just little things have been done:

-Livingroom cabinets 

-Trimmed out stair window

-Vent hood

-Micah's closet and my library cabinets

-Stain and paint samples

-Pool fire bowls

-Dirt work around the pool and putting green area

-Driveway forms and rebar

-I have finalized wallpaper selections!

Hopefully by next update, we will have some color on walls! These last little details are going to make this house full of personality! We have been told mid-July... eek! I can hardly wait!

Middle School Dance...

The boys just had their 7th and 8th grade Middle School Dance... Hawaiin style! It feels like it was just yesterday that Remi was attending his very first dance and now he has closed that chapter! I always love this evening, seeing the boys dressed up with their friends.

The boys went separte ways again this year and like last year, I depended on friends to help get them in different directions! I ended up staying with Remi this year and let Tiz haul Roen around. These 8th grade boys have done a lot of growing up since they were baby 6th graders and Roen's crew... well, they are all still a bunch of silly goobers!

Neither boy asked a single girl to dance, and Remi ended up calling me about 20 minutes before it ended saying he was bored, but hey, they went and I have photo documentation to prove it! 

And just because I love throwback memories, at the end you will find all Remi's middle school dance group photos from years past!

Easter Sunday 2024...

We recently placed membership at an itty bitty Church of Christ just down the road. It is everything you'd imagine when I say itty bitty! Just two isles, communion that is still passed hand to hand, announcements that include UIL and sports honors from the local school, and crocheted blankets that lay folded in every single pew because who doesn't want to be cozy when worshipping? All this to say, it was our very first Easter Sunday at our new church and I was pretty excited about it!

After service, we headed over to Gran's for lunch, egg hunting, and a beautiful afternoon outside with cousins! There was baseball, tree climbing, chicken chasing and of course, catching up on everyone's busy! 

Easter is my most favorite way to kick off spring and break out the pastels in my wardrobe! What a blessed day we had getting gussied up and celebrating the resurrection!

 

A Visit From the Easter Bunny...

The boys found all kinds of goodies in their baskets this year! Socks, soap, hair products, slides, swimsuits.... the importance a teen boy puts on certain soap, hair products and socks is hilarious! They are very specific with scents, brands and the height of their socks!

I am also loving the bed head and sleepy eyes in all these pictures! Long gone are the days where they are up with the roosters! Now, I'm just lucky if they actually get out of bed when they wake up! 

*Oh, and don't mind Lady, she thinks she is a monkey and hops up on the table as her little furry heart desires!

 

The Season of Busy...

As  you may have noticed, our level of busy has had me slacking with keeping up! I may not get to post near as often as I would like, but the whole "days are long, years are short" thing has me living up this season like never before!

The boys fish and golf with most all of their free time! Between middle school golf and lessons with Coach Casey, they are golfing at least three days a week after school. When they aren't on the course, I can't seem to keep a rod and reel out of their hands! I get lots of text messages with fish pictures... and I love it! 

Spring league basketball has started up and the boys have four Thursdays of games, totaling 6 games each. We are now halfway through that! Micah and I had an eclipse date of our own while the boys were at school, we got a very exciting delivery of Pop's pickles and I just had to include my sweetest little laundry helper! Benny may hog the snuggles, but Scout hogs the laundry room while I fold!

Somehow we squeeze schoolwork, fur baby snuggles and the much needed haircuts that have happened since most of these pictures were taken!