School Days

Here's Katlynn's first school picture. It's from Mother's Day Out at Antioch Christian Church. She was in the 2 year olds class. She absolutely loved her teacher, Amber. On her last day of school, we gave the teacher and aide homemade children's aprons that I had made recently. They both have little girls themselves.
Katlynn will be going back for the Summer session at Antioch but will start St. John's School in the fall, a private school. They have 3 year olds up to 6th graders. She will go daily from 8:30 to 11:30. She is looking forward to it very much. She calls it her "dad's" school since it's named St. John's.

Home again, Home again, Jiggity Jig

Finally we are home! and back in our own bed, that's the best part. We are truly spoiled with our tempur-pedic memory foam mattress. Nothing else will do.

John took tons of pictures while in Paris but I will save you (and myself) the time and just post him and the Eiffel Tower. He said it reminded him of Mexico because of the crowding, dirtiness, and crazy driving. We are so glad he is back home. You all know the saying, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder", well it is so true.
Once he came back, we turned right around and went to the Bowling Nationals in Reno, NV and ventured out a day to Lake Tahoe. While we were there, we stayed at Circus Circus on our last day and Katlynn loved it. We almost had to buy an extra suit case for all her stuff that she won down in the midway.

Then we flew back into Lubbock that weekend for Regan's (John's sister) graduation from Texas Tech. She graduated with her bachelors in nursing. Plus she just moved into her first home and treated us all to a wonderful lunch. We had a blast staying there with them. Katlynn loved waking up every morning with her Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Regan and best of all cousin Brooklyn. She went non-stop.

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Rain, Rain, Go Away Part II

Again with the rain today! And all day today. So more flooding. Roof leaking. Katlynn inside all day. Enough with the rain already.

The pit just as your getting into West Odessa was completely flooded and overflowing today. Here is a shot of it for you guys that are out of town and staying dry.

Sorry, Dad.

Dad, meet the new kitty.

Kitty, meet Dad.

We took John to the airport on Tuesday morning (he was headed to Paris, FRANCE) and on the way back home we stopped in at the Animal Shelter. I did not want a long hair cat or a boy. Guess what, the cat we came home with is both. Katlynn really took to him and even more important, he took to her.

The Good Earth

Last week sometime we planted seeds in our vegetable garden and flower garden. Yesterday I noticed the okra were coming out. Today I checked and they have sprouted big time. Katlynn was very happy to see something come from the work that she has been helping me with. I can't wait till we start being able to harvest from the garden, she is going to love that!

I did also notice the zinnias that Great Grandma Cates sent me are starting to come up too. Plus some other seeds that she gave me but didn't write what they were, I guess eventually I will find out. I had thought after big storm the seeds might have been washed away but they both are coming up right where I planted them. This pleases me.

Swimming Sunday

So since we went with George and Trish on Thursday, we switched Ronnie and France's night to Sunday and made plans to go swimming. Almost as soon as she got there this morning, her clothes were coming off and bathing suit on. As you can tell from the photos she had a very busy day. I picked her up at about 4 and while reading her naptime story, she fell asleep, which has never happened. And now at 6:45, she is still sleeping that being the reason there are blog posts today. Ye'ah for momma.

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Katlynn's Papa and Grammie bought her this cash register Thursday night. While I was trying to finish up some work on Friday afternoon, I got it out for her to play with. She loved sitting next to me at the desk playing with it, scanning everything that she could. Once again, thank you from the both of us.

I'm 2 in shrimp years

We went to eat with George and Trish on Thursday instead of the usual Tuesday because Trish had to work late on Tuesday. We went to Jorge's Mexican restaurant and I had fish and shrimp soup. Papa helped Katlynn put her these shrimp tails on and she thought it was a hoot.

Rain Rain Go Away...

So as everyone knows, Tuesday we had a big storm that blew in and created flash floods. Living here without a TV makes knowing these things in advance a little harder. But we got all the dogs put in the well house, got dressed, put tennis shoes on, sat in the hall with a candle and radio. Once things calmed down, we were able to watch out our bedroom window.

The next day our pasture was still flooded, poor horse and donkeys.

Show and Tell

Yesterday at school was Show and Tell. For the 2 year old class, they were to bring their favorite stuffed animal. When I asked Katlynn that morning which animal she wanted to bring, there was no delay, "Kitty"! This kitty was recently picked up on the 4 generation Dallas trip at IKEA. It was one of those things that Katlynn sneaks into the basket and before I realize it, it has already been rang up at the checkout line.

She had a blast showing off her kitty and seeing the other animals that the kids brought. When I asked her after school what everyone else brought she told me, "a horsey". When I probed her a little more, that was it. No dogs, no teddy bears, nothing. Just kitty and horsey.

Later during the day, while getting ready to go to dinner and waiting on Dad to finish up in the shop, her and her dad had this conversation. I am sure you can all relate.

K: What is this? Is it broke?
Dad tells her.
K: huh? What is this? Is it broke?
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D: huh? (that's a total of 21 huh's?) Then...
K: Ooooh, It's broken, why?