life, lately

Wow

life is just zooming by, isn't it?!

I admit I rarely feel like blogging lately.

Unless it's a super quick note,

writing a post

and adding pictures

(especially when one's camera isn't working properly

so all photos have to be taken with the phone,

and then sent via FB messenger

to oneself,

and then saved to computer

before being added to blog...)

takes a lot longer than you might think.

It does for me, anyways....

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I think I'll just go through phone pictures,

and work my way backwards.

Hadley was here on Sunday!

She is getting so big,

and she talks

pretty much non-stop.

We can interpret maybe 20% of what she's saying.

She's a little bit sassy

and a lotta bit sweet.

Friday and Saturday,

we built the butcherblock style countertop 

out of the black walnut flooring we bought

on our last trip to Harrison to get the rest of the oak we needed.

It's so pretty!!

A few weeks ago,

the kids wanted to surprise Dad,

and cleaned out the pool

all by themselves!!

They worked together so nicely,

for several hours,

motivated by the knowledge

 that they were blessing their Papa

who has been soooo busy with work.

They already had it filling up,

when he went out to start cleaning it.

I was so proud of them!

With the new pipes,

 our water pressure is amazing

and we had the pool refilled in record time.

Seeing that we skipped Spring

 and went straight to Summer,

it's already gotten tons of use.

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I got a clothesline for Mother's Day!!!

And Tyler even added a little flower garden to each post!!

It makes me happy.

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Our property hasn't gotten much any attention

the past two years,

and it's getting a bit wild,

but man, 

I love it!!

And I feel so thankful for it,

and this beautiful house

and these people

several times a day.