Splash

Whenever it rains in New Orleans, the streets turn into swimming pools.  The boys, along with our upstairs neighbor, donned boots and puddle-stomped, while I supervised them and also a morning yard sale.

The Boys: Liam, Jack, and Owen

Muddy Owen

Best Friends Forever

The boys loved playing the squeeze game

Owen kept making us come back and squeeze some more

They had a great time running up and down next to the neighbor's car

One of their favorite games was scrunching together in a big hug and then falling over - SPLASH - into a puddle

Owen, who is smiling and saying cheese here, although he doesn't look it. Cheese is serious business.

So this morning was a fairly successful group yard sale – we made over $100 total, and got rid of a number of things.  The rest is going to Goodwill as we speak.  I had to collect and clean the stuff for Goodwill anyway, so pricing it and putting it in the front yard was only a minor extra step.  And spending the morning chatting with our upstairs neighbors and letting the boys run wild in the puddles was pretty fun.

Yesterday we spent the entire day in Mobile, making our final selections for our house.  We  picked granite, backsplash, fireplace tile, and carpet, marking the end of our intense period of Picking Stuff Out.  I am by no means complaining – it was a fun process – but hoo boy, that’s a lotta choices.  In any case, we also took some pictures of “Jack’s new house.”  Jack, as you can imagine, was disappointed when he saw it, but we were thrilled.

All staked out!

See our mature trees in the backyard?

What will soon be the view from our master bed window - minus the porta pot and dumpster.

Backyard Trees. I recognize this is a totally boring picture of some trees, but these are MY TREES. Our trees, I should say. And even though I had nothing to do with their existence or survival, I am proud of them!