Berry Picking 2019

I say it every summer and I still own it....Berry picking is my favorite summer activity!  This year we were able to add strawberry picking!  These people were so sweet-they said we could pick all we wanted and it was FREE!  They even had buckets out there for us to use.  What a sweet treat for this strawberry loving family.

The strawberry field was only 1 mile from the blueberry farm and we've never been to it!

We headed down the street to the blueberry farm for our 10th annual picking!

The porch pic each year has to be my favorite thing in the world.  

Here are some memories from past years: Berry Picking 2018. Berry Picking 2017 Berry Picking 2016 Berry Picking 2015 Berry Picking: 2014 Berry Picking: 2013 Berry Picking: 2012 Berry Picking: 2011 Berry Picking: 2010

House Update!

Since we started our 2 week project of living in a hotel and re-doing all the floors in our house...it took 49 nights in hotel (7 weeks) and made us Hilton Diamond members! Success!

We changed out the light in our bedroom and did a few other minor updates.  

We had already ordered our new table before the whole flooding ordeal.

During the flooding we had a tree fall.  When it rains-it pours.

The floors started going in!

Loving these!

Slowly able to get it feeling normal again

Our beautiful 200 year old oak tree was struck by lightning last year.  We had several arborists some out and they told us to give it a year to see if she would live.  She didn't.  So, we had to have this gorgeous beauty removed during floodgate 2019.

Leaving our hotel room 213!  This was home for 7 weeks!

I like to think I left something good behind at the hotel.  The housekeepers and staff would go outside to smoke out of this door.  They would prop it open with pieces of mulch and it would make me insane!  My family is living here!  So, I asked management several times to have them stop and this sign was put up.  Don't worry: no one listened to the sign.  My kids and I would remove each piece of mulch that propped open the doors.

Peace Out Homewood!  Every time I drive by one of these I have PTSD.

yippee!!  Starting to look normal

And here comes the tree.  They had to take the fence down and re-build it to get the tree out.

They rutted up our yard, of course.

This was sadder than when we had to give away Gloria (our dog).

New light that the kids and Neil gave me for mothers day!

I changed out the handles on all of the kitchen cabinets.

I changed out the curtain rod and got this new rug!  The books are on it to help it relax!

We got this new rug for our bedroom and those sweet Laura Park pillows to add in some color! 
It is soooooo good to be home.  We love it so much! 

Go Mudbugs!

The Raines didn't want their mudbugs tickets so they gave them to us for a Friday night game.  The kids loved it!

It was Harry Potter night so they passed out glasses.

Cotton Candy for everyone!

Lil Bugger and Clawed

Sweet Snuggles with Daddy

Halloween 2018

This year we had a scary zombie, green man, and Supergirl.  Man, I miss the cute costumes so much!  They all had so much fun so it doesn't really matter if I like their costumes or not!

There was a huge debate going on in Shreveport about when to Trick or Treat.  People were going nuts on whether or not we should move trick or treating, but we decided to stick with October 31!

Sweet babies!

We started our evening at Jill's as usual.  She had her awesome carnival set up in their garage!  Jill does EVERYTHING!  She won't let us bring a thing.  She is the best hostess!

These cuties were ready!  This is our Colorado crew!

Henry and Sister were speeding to the houses!  We tried to beat the rain so we went early!

They love this "graveyard"

Daddy and his sweet sleeve tattoos!

Such a cute group of trick-or-treaters!

Jude the Explorer and Bennett the green man

Henry even saw his classmate, Thomas roaming the streets!

Checking out the loot!