What A Wild Week

It has been a wild week and wanted to catch all of you up to speed. First of all, my grandmother past away yesterday. It is bittersweet. She was 90 years old and up until the beginning of January lived in her own house, knew what was going on in the world, etc. That is a pretty good run. She was ready to go and yesterday told my mom she was tired and was ready. My mom told her it was okay so my grandma closed her eyes and my mom and sister stayed with her. Mom said about an hour past and my grandma woke up and asked "I'm I still here?" :)

So back to the beginning of the week. Hannah tested for her purple belt on Monday.





In action.



She got it.

I'm really impressed with her. I usually just drop her off for class and I haven't watched her in a long time. So only 3 more belts until she can test for her black belt.

Yesterday we entered the braces world for Hannah. Colton is very lucky, his teeth are straight as a board. Hannah, not so much.



Before



After

The braces make her look so much older, sigh. They are bothering her a little but not so bad she can't eat, LOL!

Hannah has only 5 more school days left after today. Colton has 3 more if he is exempt from his semester test and we are pretty sure he will be. Good job Colton.

Thanks for hanging in after the long post. We are ready for things to get back to normal.

Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day. The kids made me cute cards. Brent and the kids got me a windmill.



Isn't it cute? Brent did a good job of picking it out.

We had lunch at my parent's house. I had some family in visiting so it was good to see them. After lunch, my sister and I went to this little store/house that had antiques and homemade candles and stuff. Here is her website. I had no idea that this place even existing. The scents are fantastic. I bought a couple of the tarts to see how they do. They are still in their little bags and I can smell them.

She also has antiques.



I found this old kitchen scale. I love it. It was only $12. Check out her website. Her prices are very reasonable.

Colton's Baseball Page

My LSS has really cute papers with our school colors and mascot. I got 11 pictures of Colton playing ball, yay, on one page. Love the big square punch I got last weekend.

More Rain

We had another round of storms come thru early this morning. So the boys and I took a little field trip this morning for some pictures.



The boys are my nephews Luke and Ben. Luke (left) is 4 today. We are going to Fort Washita for a picnic.



Guess we don't have to worry about the pond not being full for summer.



Earlier this morning the water was almost to the top of the spillway. Luke has asked about 50 times what that thing is called and what does it do. Oy!



Brent's makeshift dam broke making a little waterfall. I'm calling it "Henry Falls".

What to help?

I belong to a scrapbook community called All Moments Remembered for almost two years now. There is a sweet lady on there whose husband has been diagnosed with lung cancer. They have a little girl too. The owner, Stacey, is having an online auction for her family on June 13 & 14. If you like to bid on items or donate a handmade/homemade item(s) come on over to the message board to join.

Rain and More Rain

So on Wednesday a turd floater came through. It was actually nice to get the much needed rain.

First came the winds and took out one of our outdoor ceiling fans.






I thought we could have put it back but one of the blades snapped off. Oh well.

Then came the hail.



Little hail so hopefully no major roof damage.

And then came the rain.





The rain filled the big pond.





And the little pond.



And even with this little dam Brent made to slow down the run off



part of our road didn't survive.



Thank goodness I drive a SUV and Brent drives a truck.

Oh, and this dog



hated the entire day because he was stuck in his house. He doesn't do thunderstorms.

ParTay

So glad we got the boys end of baseball season party in before the floods came (look on Saturday for that post).



I've found as the boys get older it is harder for me to get pictures of them. My goal was for them to lean in so I could see all of their faces. Not happening.



So what you have to do is move around until you get faces. They may not be looking at you, but at least you can see some faces.

And if all else fails,



walk around taking pictures of them when they are clearly not paying any attention to their surroundings. I think boys could make a game out of a rock and a stick.



And this is monkey girl um I mean Hannah. She loves the monkey bars and has loved them since uh forever. She was bored at first but the boys were being nice and let the siblings play wiffle ball with them.



She was very excited about it. She told us several times that she made 2 runs :)