below: Aron hunting eggs in our yard, right: Aron and Emma Grace at our church egg hunt
Rudy holding new cousin Tate, Me with Mom and Tia Paula before the Opry, Aron and I on Easter Sunday
My mother and aunt came in for Easter for almost an entire week and in preparation for their visit, we did lots of landscaping and spring cleaning projects. That is when it all went wrong.....
1. While cleaning the upstairs bathroom, I noticed that the floor was damp and that the linoleum tiles were loose around the base of the toilet....not good. This led to call number one to the home warranty company.
2. The next day, I was out in the yard working on the flower beds. I went into the utility room to find a hammer (for steaking down weed blocker) and heard water running. Funny. I didn't remember installing a water feature in the utility room. Hmm....OH! It's the hot water heater. And it is overflowing from the top. Hmm...pretty sure it is not supposed to do that. Call number two. Thank GOD for home warranties.
3. Due to the above issues, I had no hot water. I had to BOIL water on the stove to do dishes. You can imagine how this slowed me down in my Spring Cleaning efforts. As I am sure you can imagine how pretty I looked and smelled having worked in the yard, cleaning house and no shower. (we did get a new water heater on Tuesday afternoon and I got a shower during naptime. Heaven!)
4. My aunt flew in Tuesday evening from San Antonio. Mom was to fly in the same evening from Dallas. Anyone see the news last week about the weather and almost all flights out of DFW being cancelled? Drama.
5. Mom got here Wed. She took our room, my Tia took the guestroom and Rudy and I took the air mattress. That being said, we had a wonderful time, but hostess duties and mommy duties and Easter Bunny duties took over my life.
OK. Does this explain my absense? (ANGEL!) To make it up to you, I am posting fun pictures of all our good times. Aron was spoiled rotten by Mammaw and Tia Paula. Easter went on for days at our house! What a blessing to share this joyful holiday with family! We even had a special visit from Rudy's cousin Gloria whom I had not seen since about 1999?!?! Her new baby, Tate a.k.a. Tater is sitting in Rudy's lap in that center picture. Cutie pie!
We had a great time on Saturday night with our ladies night out to the Grande Ole Opry. (Flea- I thought of you when Loretta Lynn started in on 'How Great Thou Art!)
Enjoy these photos while I sit on my porch enjoying watching my boy play, listening to the birds sing and taking in the result of all my hard work in the yard.
5 comments:
Glad to see you back - looks like you had fun!
Hey I said I was teasing in my email...LOL
Glad your back though! Sorry you had so much drama over the last little bit.
Sweet pictures! What's that thing growing out of your husband's head? :D So happy your Easter was enjoyable.
I was wondering what happened to you but you have very good excuses! That doesn't sound like much fun to be without hot water!
Flea- I hadn't noticed until you said that, but Rudy looks like some mixed up version of the Madonna with that baby in his lap and the wreath on the wall behind him! HA!!!
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