BFFs

A boy + his dog = a forever friendship

Bubby loves his Abbie. She is the first thing he asks about when he wakes up in the morning. He pets her, plays with her, feeds her off his plate, wrestles with her, checks her teeth, puts food and water in her bowl, and even reads to her.



One evening this week, Abbie was not feeling well. She was having a hard time getting around. She was diagnosed with hip displasia 4 years ago. Her hips will occasionally give her trouble if she has played alot or been wrestled with alot. You could tell that night she was struggling to get around. She was laying on her bed and I was explaining to Bubby that she didn't feel well. He immediately ran to the living room and got a blanket. He said that Abbie was sick and needed a blanket. He covered her up and sat by her side. It was the sweetest thing to see how much he loves Abbie.

Perfect Perspective

Bubby has really taken a liking to photography. It is so sweet to see what he takes pictures of. Most of them are of himself, his dog and they things that are his like his binky, toys and shoes. I just love love love this picture. It is so indicative of his perspective.

One Tree Nil

Our trees meet their match last Sunday. We had a crew from Minnesota come and cut them down. One brave soul just shimmied his way up the fallen tree and started sawing away. They cut both trees down and removed the stumps. All was done in about an hour.




The kids and I spent about 6 hours out in the backyard afterwards cleaning all the debris. They love being out in the backyard so it was very important to get everything cleared so they could play outside again. I was hoping for my little ones to be excited about lugging limbs to the front. But they had other plans...they just wanted to play. Can't blame them!!!

Clean up Clean up

Everybody...Everywhere...

The clean up crews are out in force. Everyone in the neighborhood is trying to put the pieces back together. We have only been able to clean up the front due to our tree problem in the back. We have had 3 people come out so far. One crew said they wouldn't attempt it, another quoted 1400 and another 3500. We have signed up with Texas Baptist Men for them to come out and assess our situation. They are a disaster tree service through FEMA that will do it free of charge if they think they can do it. Our neighbor has a guy coming out today also to give us a quote. Hopefully we can get it done quickly before it comes crashing down. We went to the FEMA POD site last night and got 2 cases of water and 4 bags of ice. We are going to head to a church today to get food. I go back to work on Monday which seems so far from my mind and priorities. I can't imagine people who had "real" damage how they are trying to get back to normal. We feel so fortunate and blessed to only have the problems we do because it could be alot worse.






The calm after the storm...Life is good

We have POWER!!!!

We are headed back to TW today since our neighborhood has power. We are going to try and clean up the yard and house. Hope the power stays on!!!!!

Almost my demise

Imagine an altercation between a long steep yellow slide, a willing and eager 28 year old and an unwilling "I trust you Mommy" 2 year old. You would think all would go according to plan.
Here was the Plan.....
Step 1 Climb stairs to the top.
Step 2 Sit on slide
Step 3 Place apprehensive toddler on lap
Step 4 Slide down with glee
Step 5 Stand up and take a bow

But in reality....
Steps 1-4 go off without a hitch. Problem arises around step 5. The landing did not go according to plan. Bugs and I picked up quite a bit of momentum on the way down. I tried my best to stick the landing. But the momentum carried us forward and I did a few (maybe a lot) of stutter steps until I came to a startling halt on my knees. I have a horrible habit of laughing at people when they fall so I immediately burst into uncontrollable laughter. I look up to my two onlookers, hubs and mom who were laughing at me too. I wish they would have been filming it I could be 10,000 dollars richer with my 15 seconds of fame on AFV.

PS I'm still cracking up at it!!!!!!!!!!

****Disclaimer: No toddler was injured in this pitiful attempt at reliving a pastime from my childhood.

FabZooLous

Well we loaded up the van and all headed to the Waco Zoo today. We were pleasantly surprised to find that the kids were free and we were only $7 each. However, when we got to the ticket booth the lady asked if we were evacuees and only charged us $5 a piece. That was just a sweet gesture.

The Waco Zoo is so shady and gets you right up close to the animals. Sometimes a little too close for comfort. We stayed about 2 1/2 hours. The kids had a blast looking for pawprints. My favorite comment of the day was from Buggers. We were looking at the dward antelopes and were commenting on how small they were. Buggers said, "Look they are little just like me." So cute and so observant to make such a connection.

Dean Paul

Bugs has our name confused a little. When you ask Bubby what his name is he says Aiden Dean Paul. So listen to Bugs as she tells you her name and my name. She has picked up on it too.

Room for only one Princess

I got to spend a few hours today with Bugs by herself. She brought me her princess crown for me to wear. I posed for a few pics with it on and she decided to pose also. The moments are so sweet when I get to spend time with just her. We don't get time like this very often. We also took Abbie for walk. We strutted down the street hand in hand. She copied everything I said as we walked Abbie. She has such a sweet spirit and I can't wait to see what type of "princess" she is going to grow up to be.