Driveway

How much would you pay to add just a bit to your driveway?
I really wanted a lot more,  would be lovely to widen the entire length and go deeper than this, but trying to keep things a bit in balance for costs and just hope it'll work out well enough. I'm just shocked by how much it is. I'm hoping it will match up and last well. The driveway sure settled a lot.

And one thing I think is funny...okay it's not, it's annoying, is the "we rake the yard 3x and get rocks out and prepare it for grass...yeah, I don't think so. This was digging down what, 2-3 inches.

Just hoping for real grass someday.

These Two Buddies

I love that these two have each other and choose to do things together. They are such good friends. Lexie is trying out for Cross Country tomorrow. We shall see how it goes.

Dinosaur Jammies and Bedtime

I cannot believe the 2T jammies fit Matthew Benjers. He LOVES them!

He went around roaring so much, of course I couldn't catch it very well, but it was well cute.

Excuse the messes-we were getting packed for our weekend down in Virginia.

He also "roared" along to "I Am s Child of God" which I believe is a first and then said a cute prayer.
And some Hands on Head and Wind the Bobbin.

We are still so smitten with this babe of ours.

Whilst Daddy is Away

Why is it that everything seems to go wrong when Rick is away. He left Sunday for Charlottesville, VA for a MBA class at the Darden School. They are sure taking good care of him.
We are doing well, too. But we had quite the storm last evening. It hailed for about 10 minutes. It rained and rained! We had a lovely moat around the home.

And we had a leak in the basement.

We were warned to watch where pipes were coming into the home, but this leak was not in either of those places. The entire seam of the side wall cracked. So water was coming in.

Gratefully they came to repair it today and the insulation guys will be by on Monday morning.

We've still got the painters and the granite company to come back and fix their things.
And the driveway guys will be here next week as well for me to try and negotiate with and wish I could make it even bigger but that's not affordable at the moment.
Glad he's getting a restful few weeks at work and grateful that whilst these are big annoyances, we are healthy and well and enjoying summer!

I'm sure going to miss when these kids are off at school!

Yorkshire Day! And Colorado Day!

How lucky that today is both Yorkshire Day and Colorado Day! Two amazing places that we love and get to call home.

 

 Our Colorado and Yorkshire puddings.