Walls!

 Our second concrete pour was a bit of a disaster. They were supposed to come at 2:30 so Grandpa and our friend J arrived at 2 and we all got ready. We waited. And waited. T called the company and they said they were running behind and would be there in about 45 minutes so we waited. And waited some more. He called again and they said about an hour. 

Finally at 4:45 they arrived. The guy drove up and said, "Oh man, I was really hoping it wasn't walls." Because they take a LOT longer. 15 feet into the pour the back wall blew out and we had to scramble. We got it under control and grabbed a saw and some 2x4's and Grandpa worked like crazy reinforcing the footings and trying to stay ahead of us. It wasn't actually the wall that blew out, it was the footings from the first pour that you secure the walls to. Grandpa had been the finishing man before the blow out but since he couldn't do that Peanut quickly got recruited. 

 T was pulling concrete down the chute and into the hopper. Boo was punching it down through the hopper, and J and I were spreading it. It was HARD work and we were all exhausted and super sore by the end.

Peanut did an amazing job with the finishing work! Especially considering she'd never done it before and got about a 30 second lesson in what to do. She was SO tired and cold and wanted to quit multiple times, but she pushed through and hung in there until the end. It was NOT easy!

 

 

Because she and Boo worked so hard, the next day we dropped the littles off at Noni and Papa's and took them to Texas Roadhouse as a thank you. 

 

 

 They were pretty happy about that.

 

 

But I didn't finish my story yet...the concrete ended up taking about twice as long as it should...it kept drying out which makes it harder to work with and the guy would have to put in more water, and then we ended up being about 15 feet short! What a bummer! I felt really bad for the driver too because he said he had gotten to work at 3:50am to prep concrete for a 4:30am pour and that the company had overbooked that day so he had been running from one job to the next. He didn't leave our house until 8:30pm and Grandpa and Daddy were outside working until 10:30! Grandma and Grandpa didn't get home until after midnight. :{ So the whole thing was a bit of a disaster, but we made it through. 

 

When we went to Texas Roadhouse we stopped at Lowe's and got a pallet of concrete to finish up that last 15 feet. I looked over to see this while Daddy was loading up.

 

 

We saw this crazy cloud on the way home. It looked so weird! 

 

 

 

Thankfully the next night when we mixed the concrete and finished the last of the wall it was super easy and went smoothly. Walls...check!

Father's Day!

 We had a busy Father's Day weekend! On Friday the girls and I went to Noni and Papa's and had lunch with them. Peanut baked Papa a Texas sheet cake and we enjoyed that. We pitched in on new cushions for his rocking bench and then the girls helped him test it out. :)

 

 

Saturday Peanut and I ran up to church for a couple hours to make the balloon arch for VBS. Grandma and Grandpa came over for the whole day to help us get the shop squared up and ready for the concrete pour the next day.

 

Sunday we went to church and then had lunch and gave Daddy his presents. Grandma and Grandpa came back over for the afternoon to finish up the details on the shop.

 

 

They needed to get home and weren't able to stay for dinner so we ran into town and hit MOD pizza.

 

 

The girls are still obsessed with their pomegranate lemonade. I caught Lou sneaking it into the back when we got into the car. Haha!

 

 

We ran around Walmart for a while and then shared milkshakes on the way home.

 

 

 

It was a great weekend of celebrating the wonderful father's in our lives. We are so blessed!!

Funny Friday

 

Happy Friday! :)

Leftover Thursday

Lou was pretty proud of herself at lunch the other day for inventing "blueberry nachos". :P

 

 

This last dentist visit was the first time Lou has hopped up in the chair and not needed me to sit next to her and hold her hand. She's getting so grown up! And in other news...no one had any cavities this time! Thank goodness. 

 

 

The girls love going to Costco. Haha.

 

 

Peaches said it was Do-do's birthday so Bug made her a cake that said, "Gone Bananas".

 

 

Bug's special day with Noni was just before her Junior Banquet so Noni took her to the mall to get her nails done! This is the before they filed them off. Haha.

 

 

So pretty! Thanks Noni!

Happy Thursday! :)

Wordless Wednesday

 

Charades!

 We were cleaning out the envelope of gift cards the other day and found some Walmart ones the girls had gotten for Christmas. Peaches picked a game of charades so we had a family night of dinner and charades. They loved it!

 We all took turns and whoever guessed it got to keep the card. The one with the most cards won. 

Everyone was funny. Daddy was a good sport.

 

 

The little ones cracked me up because they would keep doing the same motion even if no one could guess it. We kept trying to get them to try something else but they would just keep doing the same thing over and over until the timer ran out in the hopes that someone would magically guess it. Haha.

 

 

Lou is a hoot. 

 

 

I can't remember what this one was, maybe a sword fight? Haha.

 

 

Bug was laughing so hard at one point that she actually choked on some watermelon she was eating! T had to pound her pretty hard on the back before she coughed it up. Yikes. Thankfully she was fine and the rest of the game was less eventful.

It's always a funny time with these goofballs!

Roller Skating!

 We all got to go to Bug and Boo's end of the year skating party. Peaches and Lou had been practicing their skating for weeks and they did an amazing job! Neither of them needed the skate helpers this year and they scooted around the rink like little pros!

 

 

At home Lou only lasts a few minutes before stopping so I was a little worried about the two hour skating session, but other than sitting down for short breaks she skated the entire time!

 

 

The girls all had friends there so they had a great time!

 

 

It's fun to watch Bug and Boo with their friends since I don't get to see them at school.

 

 

Such a fun time!

 

 

A is now graduated and M is going to do a early college program next year so they won't be at school. Bug will really miss them! 

 

 

Goodbye school, hello summer!