Wordless Wednesday

Happy Father's Day

Our weekend definitely ended on a positive note! Grandma and Grandpa helped us out so much. We are SO thankful for them! They are such a big help to us, and they're wonderful grandparents to our girls.

We ended up going to town and doing a little shopping and getting some Noodle Express since it was still raining. Yum!

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T is such a wonderful father. We are so blessed to have him in our lives. He has always been so good with Bug, and now we get to add Boo to the mix. He is always working hard to be intentional about spending time with both girls, and Bug just loves when he gets down on the floor to play with her. He has been so helpful with both girls, especially when I am busy with one or the other. He just steps in and helps me out wherever I need it.

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I think Bug looks a lot like her Daddy in this picture!

I tried SO hard to think of a good Father's Day present. Two of my ideas fell through so I went shopping last week and was just kind of looking around hoping something would strike me. Thankfully it did! T had just gone shopping for a birthday party and was talking about all the Legos he had looked through. He has always loved Legos and now Bug is starting to enjoy them too, so what better Father's Day present than something they can have fun with together??

Yes, I bought my husband Legos for Father's Day. And he was thrilled, just like I hoped he'd be, and Bug was just as happy that she and Daddy could build together. :)

Thank you, honey, for being such an amazing father and husband. We love you more than we can say, and we can't imagine life without you!

And Happy Father's Day to all the other wonderful Father's in our lives...Grandpa, Papa, Pawpaw, Grandpa Jerry, and Uncle Bo-Bo and Uncle Wade too! We love you all and are so very thankful for you!

No Boom

Oh what a weekend! We had planned on working in the yard this weekend, but then when we found out T's parents were going to be coming through we decided to kick it up a notch. We rented an excavator so we could get rid of the big rock wall that partially spans our backyard. T called the gas company, but they didn't have enough notice to come stake out the gas line (they need 48 hours notice). So T and his Dad found where it was and marked it out in the yard...but apparently it looped back into the alley.

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I was feeding Boo in the nursery when my mother-in-law came in yelling for me to get out of the house. We all ran out front and it sounded like some gigantic inner tube had just got punctured! It was SO loud! Everyone was pretty shook up, but I was fine once I realized that no one was hurt.

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We had to call the Fire Department and the police came and evacuated everyone in a three block radius...which wouldn't have been quite so bad except that our neighbor is 101 years old and bed bound so they had to bring in an ambulance to get her out of her house. Ugh. Quite the ordeal!

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Grandma and I took the girls down to the park and we hadn't grabbed our purses so we didn't have anything...I was thankful I had been wearing shoes and not slippers. :) Poor Boo had to wear a wet diaper for about four hours since I couldn't change it. I thought it would leak through since it was a cloth one but it held up to the task. :)

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Thankfully my parents were coming through town so they bought us lunch since we were evacuated right before lunch and didn't have any money on us. The gas company didn't get the line pinched for a full hour and half. Our whole house smelled like propane really bad, but I was just thankful that it didn't explode!

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So after about two hours we were able to come back home and they shut off our gas until they can come back on Monday.

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We did make some good progress on the yard! :) Grandpa got the whole rock wall torn down and loaded (well three loads actually) so T could take it away to my parents, who want to make a wall at their house. Here's Grandpa tearing down the fireplace. It was a cool fireplace and I wish we could have saved it, but it was just a crumbling mess. It would have been near to impossible to fix it.

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The cones and plywood are covering up the burst gas line.

There were some pretty nice pieces of granite back there so they should make a nice wall.

I can't believe how smooth he was able to make it! Not 24 hours ago this was a lumpy, rocky mess and now it's nice and smooth and ready for a new fence!

So we all survived the weekend and things turned out pretty well. Grandma and Grandpa took the last load of rock this morning so that T could go to church with us...so nice! They gave out snickers bars to all the dads and Boo confiscated one. :)

Hungry? Why wait?

Daddy and his girls!

It's pouring down rain right now and the guys are still out working in it, so hopefully they'll be able to finish up soon and we can take them out to a nice dinner for Father's Day. Unfortunately they are cold and wet and we have no hot water or heat. At least, in the words of Bug, there was "no boom". :)

Sherbert

Boo is discovering the sherbert! Her little toungue is almost constantly in motion now. She thinks it's pretty funny. :) We think it's pretty funny too...except when she does it while she supposed to be eating. :) I also managed to get a laugh on here! Her "laugh" is a squeaky intake of breath. She hasn't figured out how to push her breath out to laugh yet. :)

P.S. I tried a different category on YouTube. It said "Unlisted" and that anyone with the link can view the video. Can someone let me know if it's not working? Thanks!

VBS

We've been at VBS all week! Today was our last day and we had a BBQ send off after it was done. Bug got to be in the preschool room all week and I was a "snack lady". :) I started the week out as just a snack helper, but due to a family emergency I was promoted to head chef mid-week. It was actually a lot of fun. I didn't get very many pictures, but here are a couple from today.

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Bug during song time.

Bird's Nests! You have no idea how long these took me to make! A big pain, but they turned out pretty cute. The other days we had Jungle cat eyes - ritz, cream cheese, banana slice, and raisin; Fishies swimmin' - half a bagel with blue colored cream cheese w/goldfish stuck in the top; Swamp Mud - chocolate pudding with gummy worms and raisins on top; and Butterflies - a celery stick with pretzel wings and a grape head. :)

Noni was one of the teachers. She had a different group of kids every day and taught them the story of Elisha and the army.

It was a fun week but I'm definitely exhausted! I can tell that Buggy is not ready for preschool. She has been so tired and kind of crabby all week. Yesterday she said, "Mommy, can I just stay home and play with my toys? I want to stay at my home." When we got home every day she would run to her toys as if we'd been gone for years.

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She did a good job, but I think it was a little much for her. I think it definitely reinforced our decision not to send her to preschool next year. She gets plenty of social at church and she is nearly reading already so she doesn't need the academic.

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Well, hopefully after this weekend is over we'll be a few steps closer to a yard. Grandma and Grandpa are going to be here to help us get the fence torn down and ready to be replaced. I'm looking forward to a lawn!

Wordless Wednesday

Getting Dressed

One thing I am very grateful for is that although Bug is very strong willed and intense she has never put up a fight about getting dressed. She very rarely has a preference over what she is going to wear and if she chooses something inappropriate (ie-a sundress when it's -2 outside) she has no problem with me telling her no and picking out something else. However, when we are at home she has started to take charge of her own wardrobe. She came down from roomtime the other day in this ensemble.

I put her in the pink pants and light pink shirt. She added the rest. Extra shirt, butterfly hat, pajama shorts, six pairs of bloomers, and some pink polka dot bikini bottoms.

Oh, and the snowboots. We can't forget the snowboots.

Thank heaven she lets me dress her when we are going out of the house!