Well it is that time again... the time where I feel guilty for not having kept up with my blog! I hope this finds you all well... in the meantime... everyone should grab a snack, coffee, whatever because it is ggoing to take awhile to catch everyone up.
Lets start with Evan leaving... Evan deployed in May. He will be returning to us sometime in Sept. Yep we are getting close and all are very excited here. He has had a pretty good deployment but is ready to be home again. The sad news for us is that he will be leaving in January for BAGDAD. So though his time is short here... we will make the best of it.
To start my summer off I landscaped the front lawn... It looked fabulous. However, like 2 weeks after I finished a tornado came through with boat loads of rain and together they swept away my landscaping... and all the gravel under my driveway. I had 2 feet of water that rushed around my house like a river, bringing mud and debris with it. Also that little tornado brought down several limbs from my trees and tore up the roof. So my front lawn had about 3 feet of gravel and mud on top of it, my roof was tore up, trees were down... and I was a mess!
The family stepped up to the plate. We got the yard cleaned up, my mother in law helped me to relandscape again, and the insurance paid for a new roof. So back we were to square one. Since then I have painted my front porch, built a deck on the back of the house (Evan's anniversary present, our 10 year was in July), and had some friends down to trim all the trees. The limbs and brush are currently laying in my lawn... looks like wwIII around here. But I have plans to have all that cleaned up very soon.
I have redone both bathroms in the house. They needed a face life and look much better. I bought new towels for each, since the last ones I bought were 10 years old I thought it was time. I had both vehicles worked on and got them back on there feet so to speak, I even had Evans rims repainted. There has been so much going on I have not even had time to enjoy the summer and now it has passed me by as we head into fall.
The kids are back in school. Abby is in 3rd and Cody 8th. Cody is ALL AP classes this year. It is going to be a long year for him.
I am going to post a few pics if I can... I hope everyone is fine... God Bless and keep you till we meet again! Shelly
