"Big Hole"

"Big Hole..." that was Danny's words of the day yesterday. It was a big day for our house--we are getting the foundation fixed. I'm not really sure how all this works, but in the end we are looking for a report from a structural engineer that says our house is not about to crack in half! So yesterday 3 guys came out and dug 9 holes against the house, each was about a 2' cube. Then they took this big "drill/auger" and created 2 holes in each cube that is about 16' deep. THEN they put rebar supports in each hole and started dumping in concrete until the holes were filled and about 12" covered the tops (so now the cubes are about half full). All this will now set until next week when they will come out and lift our house up that precious 1/2" so that it sits more level and hopefully someone is more likely to buy it. UGH. All this to sell the house. I hope the landscaping survives...I dread the clean-up and minor repairs that are going to result from all this.

Making up for lost time

One of Danny's favorite foods is soup...in particular...tomato soup. Strange, I know...but it IS rather convenient when I don't know what else to have. So last night DJ was gone so Danny and I had tomato soup and grilled cheese...and LOTS of it! I'm going to attempt to upload two short videos...one is so you can enjoy seeing the "battle wounds" of a heavy eater like himself and also hear him asking for more soup (after refilling his bowl twice already!). The other is to show what a good influence I am on him...once he learned how to dip his sandwich in his soup, there was no turning back! Enjoy!

Memorable Day

As you know, yesterday was Memorial Day. And we decided to take a family outing. Danny is feeling much better these days, and to celebrate that we didn't have to give him any more antibiotics, we planned an outing to Dallas to enjoy a picnic, kids games, a free symphony concert and the unexpected fireworks. It was fun to say the least and Danny was just beside himself with all the dogs, balloons, art projects, and open space. It was a trip well-worth the effort.

If you ask Danny what he remembers about the night, he'll just say "loud." At least that's all he said on the 35 min. drive home..."loud. loud. loud." I guess the fireworks were loud. We thought the colors would oooh and ahhh him, but alas all our child cares about was the volume level. Not surprising though after his only interest during the whole symphony concert was the "loud" soprano singing "God Bless America." Other than that, not much on the stage interested him...his green and blue balloons held a lot more excitement.

The good stuff

Okay, let's be honest...the purpose of this blog is to make it easier to share photos, so let's see if that's actually true. I'm hoping that you will see a picture of our silly child wearing his new-found "hat." This is a familiar picture for some of you, but I thought the rest of you might enjoy it as well. At the time I took this picture, I was just recovering from being quite mad at Danny about SOMETHING. Funny part is, I can't even remember anymore what it was...but as soon as this shirt got stuck on his big-ole' head it was all forgiven and we were laughing our heads off! I'm glad you can join in this little bit 'o fun with us...

It's about time

I know, I know...everyone's doing it, and we are FINALLY jumping on the band wagon! You'd think that with a husband and "technologically saavy" as mine that I would've done this a LONG time ago, but lest you blame him for my inadequacies...let's set the record straight! Here I go at posting my first blog! Let's see how much fun we can have with this dial-up connection...