Hello

We have been so busy! It has been a great coupe of weeks and a lot has happened since I last blogged. First and most important Donny graduated from Academy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This had to be the happiest thing that has happened for all of us. No more horrible Monday thru Friday from 6am to 6pm! He will now be in the field and will be working two 24 hour shifts a week. The best part is that it is the same set days every week so we can actually plan things! I am so happy to have him home more often. He would get home and have to study and then go to bed early and it was a long day... That was a long hard 13 weeks and it is such a relief that it is over. The best news of all is that Donny graduated top of his class! I knew he would do great without a doubt but top of his class is even better!

His graduation was great! April and Ken flew down for it and we all got to go watch the class graduate. Donny even gave a speech. His speech came out great and it was a nice surprise for all of us. I got to pin him up on stage and it was a very proud moment!

Ken and April just left today. They were here for about 12 days! It was a great visit and I hope they come back very soon. We did a lot of fun things and we got to visit and catch up! Grandpa Ken wanted to take Trais putt putt golfing and so we went and I will admit I talked all about how I was going to be in 1st place! hahaha! Well needless to say I came in last. Donny and I even made a bet on it so next weekend I will be weed wacking and mowing the lawn! ugh! I despise yard work! Hahaha! I am not a sore looser though so I will do it. Although, if I would have won Donny would of have to do all the laundry for a whole week! That would have been so nice and I think we need a re-match! We also went out to the lake a couple of times and swam around. We actually thought we saw snakes in the lake too, but a local let us know that they were turtles. I guess Lake Travis has an incredible turtle population. We all felt a little crazy for swimming out of the lake so fast hahaha! I would have sworn that it was a snake and never gone back in the water so thank goodness the local set us straight! Anyways it was a very fun visit. This was Ken's first time down and I realy hope he enjoyed it.

While Ken was here he helped around the house a lot! Our guest bathroom needed some fix ups and now the shower doesn't spray all over and waste a ton of water and the toilet doesn't run all day long every day and we even put in a new sink and faucet! Yay! I am so happy with how it all turned out. Ken also got us all the rest of our blinds and put them all up and fixed the light switches so that we can turn on either the light or the fan without having to pull the chain! He did some other Mr.Fix it stuff also and it all makes our lives so much easier! Oh yeah and the best of all... Ken and Donny got up and went to a neighborhood garage sale yesterday and found the deal of the century!!! A tile saw!!! It is a really nice one and it is in awesome shape (I would guess it was only used once for a small project around the house). So, now all we have to do is get the tile and morter and grout and we are ready to begin our project! No more cement floors soon! We are planning to do the kitchen both bathrooms and the front entry and the laundry room! It is going to be a lot of work, but it is the last thing inside the house that needs to be done! It will look great!

Oh yeah and I finally painted the bottom half of Avery's room in purple! It looks so cute and as soon as we get the trim up on the border it will be the cutest little girls room ever! Trais's room is next and I hope to do it this week while he is gone at school. His room is harder since he has a lot more furniture that is all a lot heavier! We are doing the bottom half of his in a really nice blue!

The kids are both doing great! Avery is 2 months old now and she goes in to get a whole bunch of shots on wednesday! That will be a sad day, but it does mean that we can get her ears pierced! They wont let you get them pierced until they are 2 months and have had thier first set of shots!

Well Avery is waking up now so I will have to sign off, but keep posted! Oh and I will have to upload more pictures later also!

Love you all!