News from May

Grace and I took a trip to Dallas while Truston was out of town. We had a couple of awesome days with the Dallas Myres. Kristin had a minor surgery while we were there, so we were glad we could help out a little. The weather was so perfect, so the boys played a lot outside, we took everybody swimming, on a walk, etc.  We also attended a mom group that Kristin goes to, “Power of Moms”. I remember my friend Danielle telling me about it, she LOVED the ideas they had. The topic that night was parenting with intention. I’ve actually been thinking somewhat along those lines, so it was good to formulate the ideas and goals I had been considering into more concrete form.

Grace and I drove home in our new van on Thursday! We are now the proud owners of a Toyota Sienna. Talmage and Logan still want to sit right next to each other. But as far away from me as possible. 

When we got home I tackled a home improvement project I’ve been wanting to do, but I haven’t had the guts to do it. You know that I am not a risk taker and this particular idea was making me really nervous. I decided to go ahead and paint my countertops. Here they are before and after. It’s a faux granite that you paint on and then seal. I was having a panic attack for the 24 hours it took to paint and seal them, but now that they’re done, I love it.

Before. Faux wood block. when was this ever a good idea?

After. Much better.

Here are the boys on Mother’s Day: they are such a sweet blessing in our lives. Especially the fat one.

Only Talmage is looking, but it's still cute.

And because I love to talk about everything they do, here are some random funnies:

• ·         Reid is a wild man in the pool. He puts his head right in, he crawls right in, he has no sense. This summer is going to be tricky, keeping him water safe.

• ·         Talmage got a ‘letter’ from his friend Hunter down the street. Mistakenly, I showed him where the envelopes are so he could write a letter in return. Now he is delivering ‘letters’ back to Hunter about every 4 hours, filled with letters and ‘pictures’ of Hunter and him.

• ·         Talmage had a BLAST with my cousin Kaitlyn in Dallas. Kristin had just brought her back a tea set from Chinatown in New York City and Talmage and Kaitlyn had a ‘tea party’ about 3 times a day. Drinking so properly and then running around the house shooting guns and then stopping for another sip of tea.