Ok, so my brother and sister in law are going to kill me but…I’ve seen this more than once and keep saying I’m going to do it so here it goes. If you keep up with mommy blogs at all you may have heard of Kelly’s Korner. It’s a personal blog that has gone viral to say the least. We’ll some time ago she came up with show me your singles. Basically you link your blog with info about a friend or family member who is single by chance the right person may come across it. Yeah, it’s a long shot I know but sounded like fun none the less.
So with our further to do…Uncle Bry Bry. My baby brother, Bryant. We grew up in Naples FL. He’s 32 and recently moved back to Tallahassee, FL. I say moved back since he’s an FSU grad but we don’t hold that against him, lol.
We don’t see him nearly enough. You’ll noticed the kids varying age in the photos. But I really don’t have too many pics of him without the kids. He tries to meet up with us as much as possible and he’s great at playing with the kids.
He’ll even eat easy bake but only for his only niece!!
And his buddy…Bear!
Aunt T, know to most as Teresa, she’s 37 and live in Panama City. This is Justin “older” sister and they grew up in Mobile, AL.
She loves the kids…yes our kids are spoiled, only grandkids/niece/nephews on both sides!
Her baby…Tia!
Teresa graduated from Auburn!! War Eagle Aunt T. She still makes it backs to a few games every year.
This past spring she ran in the Azalea trail Run in Mobile.
This boy is puzzle crazy…I turn my back and he’s put together Buzz all by himself. He has a couple other 30 and 40 count wood puzzles he puts together in no time. It amazes us. I’m pretty sure he’s memorized where each piece goes because he just studies the piece and then puts it right together.
We have stayed out of the 90’s the past couple weeks which has been a welcome relief. It also means time to get the fall garden in the ground. Kids had fun mixing the dirt! They took turns raking and stomping.
We planted broccoli, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, cabbage carrots and snow peas or at least that’s what I remember. I didn’t help much more than keeping the seat warm and taking pictures!
to the fair. Have I mentioned lately it’s fair time? We’ll if you don’t live in NOLA you probably don’t quite get it – we didn’t two years ago but my how things have changed!
We are knee deep in planning and it’s getting down to the wire. I joke though, every thought the past few weeks seems to be focused on the fair. I’m like the fair will be over in a week but we are going to have a new family member in just a few weeks! Makes the fair very trivial despite it’s importance to our church and school.
Not so sure about this whole school thing! We are having rough mornings but they say within 5 mins he is fine. He’s happy when I pick him up and says he had fun playing. Hopefully for mommy’s sake drop off will get better – soon! Then the baby will come and we’ll probably have to start all over!
So it’s also fair time. We have been busy planning the fair all year long but now, only three weeks out, we are in full gear. Today was our first work day. So that’s what we’ll be doing the next three weekends. And then after we get through the fair we can have a baby!!!!
Its that time of year again…college football.
We didn’t have much to cheer about today but it wasn’t because we didn’t sport our Auburn attire in LSU country! The kids had a uniform pass yesterday and sported their orange and blue to support our tigers.
Luke wanted to be front and center and Logan wanted to show me his “orange and blue” tiles.
And Elizabeth was exited about wearing mom’s AU earing this year! Don’t think I’ll get those back.
So Monday we prepared to head home, electricity or not. Daddy had to go to work and the kids had to go to school. Knowing it was going to be hot we headed to Home Depot in search for an A/C. We found a decent looking portable one that said it handled 300 sqft. We figured we could all pile in a room and survive through the night with that.
We loaded up Monday after lunch, Luke passed out before we were out of town, and we headed back. After almost three full days of being closed up in a hot house the refrigerator had a complete funk! Justin took on the fun job of black bagging that all up, while I worked on empting the car. After a couple hours at home with no a/c we decide a dinner in a/c and trip to the gas station was in store. By this time, there were several options for dinner and no longer long gas lines. Most people had their electricity back – this is one draw back to living “outside” of the city. Some call it rural…I wouldn’t go that far but we like it none the less. Less populated areas are last on the list to be fixed, plus in this case we were also closer to the area that took the brunt of the wind damage.
By the time we got home it was dark, so flashlights in hand we made everyone beds in our room. We went light on clothing since it was still reading 80 in our room even with the portable a/c. You could tell it was cooler than the rest of the house after running 4+ hours but it still wasn’t the same as having real a/c. After getting them to bed, I grabbed a water bottle and laid in bed – it was just too hot to do much else in the house. Justin and I dosed on and off, and then at one point Justin got back up to check on the refrigerator. We were waiting for it to cool down before unloading our cooler. When he opened the door it almost look light in the play room – was I seeing things, in my half asleep state?? No – it was light – our power was back!! We both snuck out of the bed room and happily started cleaning up a few things…unplugging things from the generator, turn a/cs on, and letting the house cool off before really going to bed.
Luke found this “hole” to sleep in early in the evening and stayed there all night. Logan had to be woken up at 7:45 to make it to school!
With the fan on and house a/c back on, E froze to death.
Tuesday it was nice to be able to do laundry and clean. A week later we are still playing catch up but were almost there. The positives are the frig is clean than it’s been since we bought it. Only things we use for now until random items collect again. The back porch got a great power washing thanks to Justin.
It was quite an adventurous week for us but nothing compared to some. We have a couple families at school that lost everything. I can’t even begin to imagine. We are very thankful we were spared the worst of it.
