The Oasis Contruction in Underway!

The pool people showed up this morning bright and early (6:45) to start digging for the pool. We had several trees that had to go.

We even found a slittering friend in the woods. It is hard to tell in the picture, but Andy is holding a dead black snake. The workers were scared of it, so Andy attacked it with the shovel. What a man.....my hero!

What a mess!

ZZ Top

Saturday night, a group of us went to see ZZ Top. We packed some good food and enjoyed a fun evening with friends! Allison and Brian

Kathy and hubby, Kelvin.

Holly and I really came to support The Zac Brown Band that opened for ZZ Top. We went to college with Zac and use to go see him every week play at the Taco Mac in Carrollton. (to all you fellow ZZ Toppers---check on the lady in the background--she was the cuplrit from the night- we should of known then that she would be trouble.)

Home Improvements Update

Here is an update to our home projects that we are working on.......everything is coming along well except for the pool....still no progress, but hopefully this week!

Project Kitchen- I scraped wallpapers forever. Finally I realized that this job was way to big for me, and that it would take me forever to complete by myself . I had to break down and hire some help! The walls were in such bad shape from the wallpaper, that they had to be patched and sanded.

Thank goodness for my friend Scott, who came over in the pouring rain to help hang my new light. (Scott- maybe next time I can offer you a better glass of sweet tea!)
The final product!

Project Yard-We have little sprigs of grass sprouting.

Home Improvement

This is going to be a summer of changes and improvements for our house. I have a LONG list of things to get finished this summer. Here are a few of our big projects. I will try to keep you updated on their progress as the summer goes on.......
Project #1- The Yard
Do I even need to say more.......our yard is a disaster so we are finally trying to get it under control. We had these terrible ruts and gulleys and about a million rocks. We are going to try and work on it in sections and hopefully get some grass. We have some friends who are landscapers who are helping us with our project. Here is our friends Ann and David getting rid of the little grand canyon in our front yard.

I know this may not look like much to some people....but it already a huge improvement! Hopefully I can post some new pictures in a few weeks of our new green grass!

Project #2- The Kitchen

I promise to NEVER EVER even think about wallpaper again for the rest of my life. We put up this wallpaper about 6 years ago and it was time for it to go! I am slowly ripping it down and I can tell that it is going to be a very slow and painful process, but I know that the final result will be well worth it.

Project #3- The Backyard Oasis
This is the future site of our new pool......we are hoping that construction will start next week! I am a little nervous about the huge mess that it will make, but I can't wait for the end result!

Playing in the Sprinkler

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More End of Year Celebration

Here is McKinley's class singing the "7 Days" song. He loves this song and sings it all the time at home. Press play and enjoy!

End of the Year Celebration

Since today was McKinley's celebration at school, I took the day off from work to be mommy and have fun. McKinley has spent two years at the church preschool. We have been blessed with great teachers who have loved and taught McKinley so much! We spent the morning with his teachers and friends from school playing, jumping and singing. Here are some pictures from our day. We started out the morning in the jumpy house. Here is McKinley and Miss Susan jumping around!

The picture below is McKinley and Henry. McKinley told me this morning that Henry "is his best friend ever and they do everything together".
Look at the monkey climb up the rock wall.

McKinley was a little weary about going up the big slide.....he would go up the ladder a little bit and then freeze and chicken out.

Finally, he went down the slide and loved it!

Bubbles....Bubbles Everywhere!

Our last stop was face painting.

Check out the cool turtle that Miss. Susan painted.

134th Kentucky Derby

We got together with some friends yesterday to watch the Kentucky Derby. We all had a great time especially the kids. They all had a blast playing together! Here is Kate watching the Derby. She was watching to see if her horse was going to pay out big!

After the Derby, we headed outside to play. Here is Molly Margaret chillin with her daddy.

Aunt Holly & McKinley played in the fort.

Karson and Keri had a good time playing with Cooper.

Kate learned how to drive McKinley's gator. Her and Karson had a good time crusin the backyard.

Karson was really brave to ride with this wild man.

Karson was too little to drive the gator, but he was just the right size for the motorcycle. McKinley wanted to race!

Karson and his daddy.

The guys threw the football around the backyard.

Check out this action shot!

I think Uncle E fumbled the ball.Touchdown McKinley!