Well these pics are a little late, but they're finally on here. During Memorial Day, I took off work Sunday and Monday so Mike and I could head down to Kingwood to spend some time with the family and celebrate Kyle's 22nd birthday. We were going to head down on my days off Tues, Wed, and Thurs, but Mike started his job Wednesday so we had to move the dates up a bit. When we went down on Sunday, we showed up a little late in the afternoon and went to my Aunt Liz's for a crawfish boil. It was soo much fun!! There was swimming, food, drinks, and family time!! We had an absolute blast and hung out outside the whole time until it started raining and we headed in to continue the fun. When we headed home, the guys went outside to hang out with the dogs and smoke their cigars and my mom and I hung out inside. On Monday, my mom and I went back to Aunt Liz's house to swim and tan in the pool, Mike and my dad took the dogs for a walk and a swim in the park by the lake, and Kyle went to work out. That night, the family came over, along with one of Kyle's best friends (Kyle Garza; he's in the Coast Guard so it's been a while since they've been able to hang out!), so it was a lot of fun! We had Sobrett hot dogs (the best hot dogs ever!) with Snuggles hot dog buns and other cook out food. For dessert, we actually kind of skimped. We only had cookies and coconut creme pie, which was weird for us, but still good. Mike and I had to head back Tueday afternoon and got him ready for his first day on the job.
Mike's working at Razor-360 in Addison as an account specialist. He's figuring out all the books for the company as a paid intern and is having a stressful, but good time. The drive isn't all that great, but he's been trying to figure out the hours that are best for traffic. We don't really get to see each other at all on Mondays or Fridays since we have completely opposite schedules, but we try to at least see each other in the driveway as he's pulling in and I'm heading out to work. Today I drove out to meet Mike for lunch, which was a lot of fun, so we're going to try to do it every Wednesday. He had his first day of Graduate school last night and it's going to be a tough semester, but we're praying everything will work out and hopefully not cause too much stress.
Me on the other hand, we're having a department wide sign up at the end of this month. I'm still going to stay on midnights so we can have the day and dinner together on Saturdays and Sundays, but I'm hoping I can at least get at least one weekend day off. If I can't get Sat, Sun, Mon off, I'll go for Sun, Mon, Tues. I'm also looking into getting my teaching certificate if the schedule conflict gets to be too much of a pain. I'll try to get a teaching job in the elementary school level in either Burleson, Crowley, or south Fort Worth. But in the midst of all this stress, belly dancing is an absolute blast with the girls!!!! Oh and poison ivy sucks!! I got it from work so that's been fun.
Well on our back porch in the corner, we watched two little birds work very hard to build a nest. The tried to build it on the back patio in the roof corner, but it blew down. They then started building it in the corner underneath the back porch on a plant hook. We didn't think it could be done since it was in such an awkward place and well, there's nothing underneath it besides a hook. After a few weeks, poof, there was a mud nest. The mom and dad bird would sleep in it and do their thing. A couple weeks ago, we started to see little eggshells on the ground and we were worried that something had happened to the baby birds. Then one day, we started to see their little heads popping up over the nest. We haven't really heard too many tweets or singing thank goodness, but we do get to see them pop their heads up and sleep on the ledge of the nest when we go outside. The mom sleeps on the ledge next to the nest and the mom and dad bird will hop up on the nest to feed the birds. All around, it's a cute little family on our back porch.
