All about Easter...in an eggshell!

My Silly Kota man


Just dropping in to share a quick update.
Life is about to get busy....well, not really that busy. But other things will come before the blog. Like family.
We have 2 more sleeps (including tonight) til my sister, Tammie, arrives. The kids are excited...Mommy is excited. I just need to get some cleaning done before she arrives. And that is what I plan to do tomorrow...pending the kids' cooperation.

Easter weekend was fun. The kids dyed eggs at Aunt Samantha's house. We celebrated April birthdays...Aunt Samantha, Andy, Myself, and Grandma...all have birthdays within 2 weeks of each other. It was fun!

Dakota dyeing his egg

Lilyann...showing off her dyed egg

Dakota and Lilyann all ready for Sunday school...Easter 2011

The kids and their cousin getting eggs from the Pastor

Do it right the first time!

Let me just tell you....DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!!

Doing little quick fixes do nothing but reek havoc later. In our attempts to maybe sell our house soon, we are fixing things slowly (as the money come available)...and our pipes have been off and on trouble recently. With my 6th sense of super smell power (thanks to being pregnant!) and fluid leaking from under the house, we had the plumber come look at the pipes under the house...Well, they were rotted away. I don't know for how long..but under the house was flooded...we live on pier and beam...every time I used the washer or the kitchen sink, the water was just pouring out under the house.

After a few hours of trying to unclog our sewer line...thanks to Lily putting stuff down the potty, and old pipes, and we are thinking roots growing into the pipes....then it was a little over an hour of working under the house...and all is fixed!!
Hearing about the extent of the damage under there was fairly easy to take...but then finding out that the previous plumber from 6 years ago, replaced part of a pipe and then covered with duct tape (yes!! you heard that right, a plumber used duct tape...arggh!), and then getting the bill....OUCH!

So, I can't stress it enough....DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!! Duct tape may be a fix all item, but not for plumbing. If only I could find the paperwork on the guy that did the work 6 years ago...if only.

now, it's fixed and we shouldn't see plumbers for a while...as long as Lily doesn't flush anything else.

Another thought....Duct tape isn't a fix all!!

Someone's watching ME!

You might realize this over the next year...or at least til next winter..but I LOVE my new hammock!!

I almost thought of starting another blog and calling it "From the Hammock!"

Anyway....
I was lying in the hammock yesterday evening and what did I see in the tree above me...staring right down at me...but a squirrel!!! And he was gnawing on our pecan tree. We have lived here for almost 6 years and have never received the pleasure of a pecan. Either the squirrels partake of all the goodness or hurricanes/ tropical storms come through and blow them all off before they are ripe.


So...here's a picture from the hammock!


And another...my view from the hammock of the kids jumping.