Wherefore this blog is as much for my children to read about this season of our life someday in the future when they're old enough to appreciate it as much as it is for me to share what's going on and what I'm thinking with the handful of you that are still subscribing, I'd like to recap what we've been doing for the last 40 days. A lot of you have probably seen pictures on facebook, but here's the narrative to go along with the pictures.
I only worked one day between May 19th and June 10th. That was the longest break from the railroad that I've had in over 8 years. It was a time of refreshing, travel, and fun with family and friends. We had a great time, but probably won't be able to make Leslie's tattoo payment this month.
My mom came to visit and celebrate the end of the school year with Georgia's graduation from Kindergarten and Jonesy's 1st grade awards ceremony.
On Thursday (May 24) after our celebration lunch at Bush's Chicken, Annie, West, Blacker, and Justin traveled with Mimi to San Angelo while the other girls stayed at home to finish their end of school year activities.
Hank and Auntie Sheila rendezvoused with us in San Angelo for some good sibling and cousin time.
This is Annie trying on a flower girl dress and a picture of Sheila wearing the same dress in the mid-80's.
Leslie and the other girls arrived on Saturday. Jazbo came home on Sunday after a fishing adventure. Leslie and the kids went home on Monday for one more day of school and Dad and I prepped for our trip to the coast.
We departed on Tuesday (May 29) morning bound for a salty sea adventure. We had arranged a guided fishing trip with Capt. Jack on Wednesday. He is a retired firefighter who worked under my Granddad at the fire department in Odessa years ago. He now works as a guide out of Rockport. It was a fun day of fishing that was different from anything that we had ever done before. We caught speckled trout, limits of redfish among other sea creatures, and watched dolphins throughout the day. You can see some videos from our day in the sidebar. One of my favorite parts of the day was hearing Capt. Jack speak so highly of my Grandad and his servant leadership as his fire chief.
Leslie and the kids arrived that afternoon and we spent the next few days on the beach in Port Aransas. More fishing, sand, and surf. Lots of good food.
On the way home we stayed a night in San Antonio and celebrated West's 2nd birthday with some of Leslie's cousins. Dinner on the River Walk and swimming at the hotel pool. We traveled home on Sunday after shopping and more good eats in San Marcos.
After a day of recovery on Monday, I returned to work on Tuesday, but only worked the one day and didn't go back until the next Monday.
On Thursday(June 7) I traveled to the 5th annual Guys I Went to College With weekend at an undisclosed location. 3 days and nights of good times, good food, talking about memories and making new ones. No pictures available. I didn't take any.
I've been back at work for a week now. Loden is due to arrive in a few more weeks. Life is good. Amen.
2 comments:
Great update! My favorite part is naked West climbing on the bed in the background of Annie's picture. :)
Have been thinking of you guys and enjoyed the update and pictures. Leslie, you look beautiful! I wanted to tell you that every night at bedtime Samuel wants to pray for "the mommies with babies still in their tummies", and you are among the friends on this special daily prayer list. :-)
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