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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Tyler's birthday parties







Hard to believe my sweet baby is four years old. He is so articulate, and polite (most of the time), and funny! And of course, is the most handsome boy on the planet. He loves listening to music and can name most popular songs within a few seconds of hearing them. He also has a newfound love of rock music...loves Def Leppard, Guns N Roses, etc...he loves that rock guitar sound and when he hears it, he says "This song rocks!" Happy birthday, sweet TyTy!



Moss Farm for Mother's Day







We were lucky enough to be invited to the Brownsville Moss clan's Mother's Day cookout at their farm outside Brownsville. The 45 minute drive turned into an hour and a half due to an 18-wheeler accident (quote from Tyler: "This traffic is giving me a headache!"), but we finally made it. Tyler's favorite part was the giant John Deere tractor, and Ashley loved playing with their dog Dixie, climbing trees, and playing tag with all the cousins (from smallest to tallest...William, Amy, Thomas, Tyler, Martha, Samuel, Elizabeth, George, Ashley, Anna, Delie, Joy). We feel so blessed to be part of a BIG family now and are so glad that a few of them live close enough for us to visit :-)

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Now that's what I'm talking about...


Progress, sweet progress! Maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to eat a meal in our kitchen this weekend :-)

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

A Quick Update

I've had several questions, so in case you're wondering, we're NOT keeping that granite. Luckily, they had not yet glued it down to the island, so they were able to easily remove it and take it away. The contractor has been more than apologetic and has promised to have workers at our house every day now until the kitchen is done (there's still lots of little things here and there yet to be completed...cabinet knobs, baseboard, one more coat of paint, etc). The correct granite is supposed to be ready Thursday, but I'm not holding my breath yet...just keep your fingers crossed for us! :-)

Thursday, May 6, 2010

I need a drink...


Do you want the good news first or the bad news? Here, it's more fun this way...the good news is, the granite guy did come when he said he was going to come (okay, 1 day late, but still in time for me to have a working sink and dishwasher for Mother's Day weekend) and here's what he's done so far today.
The bad news is, THIS IS NOT THE GRANITE WE PICKED OUT!!!!!!!!! I am so angry right now... I'll leave it at that, because I don't want to start spewing words that aren't appropriate for a G-rated blog!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Rain, rain, and more rain

Well, I would post new pics of the kitchen, but that would be rather pointless since absolutely nothing has happened since my last post a week ago. I've given up being frustrated and angry and have just resigned myself to it, I guess. Sigh. So on to other things...

Tyler's birthday was Saturday...I haven't downloaded my camera yet, so I'll get some party pics up here eventually. We were scheduled to go on a church family retreat Saturday afternoon thru Sunday morning, but due to the horrendous thunderstorms and tornado warnings, they allowed us to cancel it without penalty (the road to the retreat center was flooded). So we spent pretty much all day Saturday inside. Tyler was surprisingly scared of the storms...the tornado sirens went off several times between bedtime Friday night and Sunday morning, and while he didn't really have any experience with storms, he would immediately climb into my lap and would stay there as long as needed, allowing us to turn off his "shows" to watch the weather. He even started requesting to watch the weather whenever it got dark outside, to make sure we were safe! Saturday night at 1:30am, we had to get up and get in the downstairs closet (under the stairs) due to a suspected tornado literally right down the street...luckily it never touched down, I guess, and me and the kids all got in the bed in the guest room so they wouldn't be scared the rest of the night. We all slept in Sunday morning (well, Ashley and Mallory slept in...Tyler woke me up at 7 as usual, but allowed me to nap on the couch while he ate his breakfast and watched his shows for a couple of hours!). Of course, it's absolutely beautiful today (Monday), just in time for everyone to go back to work and school...:-(