Yippppeeee! The Bunch Officially Start Summer!

Okay, that is a little misleading because T still has two weeks, but since I am no longer at the board doing the Slope Intercept Formula I will take his two digit multiplication without complaint.....or at least relatively little. The weather has gone from perfectly wonderful to the long humid very hot days of summer, seemingly overnight. Why is it North Texas goes from beautiful 70's to upper 90's without the gradual warm up of the 80's? You get use to days in a row of sunshine and mild afternoons and then the oven gets turned on one night and then it is 92 with 71% humidity by 11am. The temp isn't too bad. It is the combination of the humidity and heat that is killer. I do have to say though my wonderful country house with its constant gale force winds might just make this summer not too bad. Don't get me wrong I expect skin melting heat and thick air, but a constant breeze should make a huge difference...I hope.

We have done it. We have made the sprinklers work. We found another zone and replaced pretty much EVERY head, had the big guns fix the cut lines, and now we know where the last zone should be. We just have to dig the 3 inches or so of dirt off of it and then our system will be complete. However, the missing zone is in the back yard and I feel no real sense of urgency since I have no plans to sow grass back there in the near future. As for the grass in the front yard, I feel like an idiot watering all day long for the past 10 days. I do have about 25% of my seeds starting to sprout but since my front yard alone is over 1/2 acre it really doesn't look like too much. Hopefully, more grass comes up next week so I can start cutting back on watering, though thankfully I just am programming my newly fixed sprinklers to just keep going off so other than dealing with the in ground birdbath a couple of heads have made the effort on my part is pretty minimal. I am still not sure if the headache is worth it, but it is pretty nice not to worry about watering.

A starts volleyball next week. It will be interesting to see how we like this. So far soccer has been the most interesting spectator sport since the kids move around so much.

Everybody have a fantastic Memorial Day Weekend and remember to say a prayer for those who fought for our freedom to enjoy it!

Some antique jewelry from my great grandmother. All hand painted.

Kids had a Harry Potter Day....I think they are angling to go back to Universal...NOT HAPPENING YET!

Plotting for how to play Quiddach in the backyard .One ended up holding a hula hoop over their head while the other two threw it in. Yep, I saw that ending badly too.

Having fun at the Homeschool Library Time working with little bit robotics. Super Fun!

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The Bunch Start Birthday Week

Yes, my Mom had my name misspelled on the cake.😂 It was still yummy so it was all good. T, A, and I all have our birthdays within a week and a half. Which means there is a crazy amount of sugar within those 10 days. We always like to make whoever's birthday it is feel special for the day. We watch what they want,do activities they like, eat what they pick, do their chores for them, etc. It not usually too expensive, but just a fun day where it's focused on them. The kids use to use their days to rule like little kings and queens, but have become a lot calmer in their "old" age since they get to do whatever they want most of the time anyways. We are a pretty close family and do a lot of things together all the time anyways, but on birthdays we still make sure we defer to the birthday boy/girl. My birthday is first and the kids do so many nice things for me all the time, but they put forth an extra effort on my birthday. This year A even woke up early to turn the cof...

The Bunch Visit Family

We had fun playing some board games...and it wasn't even a fun jar idea! We just did it because it sounded like fun! The fun jar has been a little slow being implemented this year. T made sure to let me know! We're making up for it next week by drawing several things. We have had a wonderfully busy week visiting family and getting things done around the house. We went over to my parents house to celebrate Father's Day and while the boys played games with Grandpa, the girls went with Grandma to show her what all the fuss about Trader Joe's is about. She enjoyed looking at all the different things and even found a few gems of her own. It was a nice day and fun to get out together for a little bit. We had a great day!🥰 We picked up Whataburger for my Dad as a treat and my mom made some tots and a side salad up to go with it.💗 We also had a nice long visit with our Aunt P. She's been under the weather and we hadn't had a visit in a couple weeks so it was nice t...

The Bunch Have A Fantastic Week!

Pickleball is always fun! Now that the weather has been nicer, albeit super windy, we have been trying to do our weekly pickleball match. Basically, this week whoever was playing with the wind won! We still have fun playing even when it is windy. In fact, playing in the wind probably makes us have more fun. The wind gusts sometimes pick the ball up and make it do some funny things, like getting the ball and pushing it back onto your side so you lose a point or blowing it three courts over! Luckily, we are usually the only ones there so it doesn't matter if we play across 4 courts. Afterwards, we usually go get some ice cream/ frozen yogurt and just enjoy our outing. T went camping this weekend with his troop. They worked on orienteering, which I was super happy about since T needs to work on that something fierce, but unfortunately the boys in troop aren't much better than him at orienteering and the first guy oriented them upside down on the first one so they basically was...

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