Transformed while away!

Jeff decided to surprise me while I was in Texas. We have not liked our kitchen floor since we moved in. It was white with a nasty gray grout. It was ugly. So, Jeff decided to put new tile in while I was gone. Here is a picture of the kitchen before. It's hard to see how ugly the tile is, but just trust me on this one.


Here are some pics of the work in progress.


Here, Jeff has begun chopping up the tile.


Oh, Thank you thank you thank you LORD that I wasn't here for this.

I am still finding dust particles from this awful site even today.

What's this you see....yes, even under the ugly there is uglier!!

Seriously....this is just gross. What era was this floor from? 50's?60's? Well our house was built in the 80's...so I guess that would be my answer. I'm glad I don't remember styles that much from the 80's.


Here Jeff is beginning to lay the Durock and to pour some leveler in.


Little man strikin a pose on the floor to be!

YEA! The final result! MUCH Better. We picked out a tan with brown tile and we picked out the larger sized tiles. I think 17x17's.


Awe! How nice!

Here is a picture of one of the new thresholds that Jeff made and stained to match our wood floors.


Didn't he do good? What a nice surprise!

Hardest Blog ever

Well, I don't want to do this...but I must.
I have been really procrastinating updating this family blog because I know that when I send out pics and updates of the boys that dad won't be on the other end waiting to receive them.

I've not had a whole lot of time to absorb what I have been through. Immediately after coming back to Texas from the funeral, mom and I were swimming in legal stuff and getting dad's estate settled before I returned home. No one should have to do this after losing a loved one.

The minute that I got home, I was immediately thrown into my new ministry that was set to kick off Feb 21st and I had to write the bible study as well as all the other details of it all. So, now I have a little down time and hopefully time to absorb what has just happened to our family.

Although, I am not sure I really want to. The minute I begin to think on it the pain begins to spill in and I find myself pushing the thoughts out so the pain will go away. It still doesn't seem real. I just keep waiting for dad to show back up so we can pick up where we left off. Every turn I make, evey step I take....I see him in my mind. Almost everything I touch or do seems to bring up a memory of him. He's everywhere yet not here -all at the same time. I miss him so.

I thought that I would post these pics first before I send any out of our daily family stuff.These pics are from the day after the funeral. I wanted to go back out to the burial site and pick up some of the beautiful flowers that were given to us. We brought a lot of them back so we could enjoy them while they were still fresh.

Trying 'em out!

The boys got a chance to get on their new motorcycles and try them out.
Here are some pics of the day.

All Geared Up!

Big Surprise!

When we got home from Texas late Wednesday night we found these in the garage! Some of our sweet friends suprised us by getting the boys dirt bikes for Christmas. A dream come true for the boys!

Christmas

We spent Christmas away from home again this year. We first made a trip to Arkansas to visit my papaw and uncle and then we headed for Texas where we spent time with my parents and Jeff's parents . Here are some pics of our trip.

This is Jonah and Jadon using the furniture in papaws house to run and do jumps. Something I am sure that thrills a great-grandparent!





Jonah and Jadon shooting in papaw's backyard.

NEVER try this at home!

Football fun at Nana's.

the boys opened a couple of gifts on Christmas Eve.


This is what they got and we could have saved a whole lot of money on the other items because these Dallas Cowboy jerseys were next to gold as far as the boys were concerened. They didn't take them off for a whole week.

Gifts on Christmas morning.

The boys got Cowboy helmets to go with their jerseys.

Nana with her boys

More football.

First missing tooth

Hey everyone! I have so much catching up to do on the blog since we have been gone for 2 weeks. Here is Jadon showing off his first gap between his teeth. He has been wanting to lose a tooth for so long and he finally did it!! He was SO excited!!

The interesting part is.....is that one of the kindergarten teachers pulled it for him! I was so sad that I didn't get to be a part of the BIG event. He came home and couldn't wait to show me "the hole!" Anyway, here is the proud 6 yr old.