Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Valentine's Week & Princess Lucy Anna

Week 38: This was a crazy hectic week for us. In honor of all things Mardi Gras, MV's basketball game was canceled for the weekend (to give us time to celebrate), so we had our game on Monday night. The kids looked so tired and worn out from a full day at school. I am surprised they all made it through the game. They did great...lots of points scored and lots of happy kids! In the midst of basketball and girl scouts, we managed to celebrate Valentine's Day! I went a little overboard this year for some reason...


Ed and I had a long talk about how much he wanted a black lab...my requirements were that I didn't want a "puppy", needed to be a girl, had to get along with Bandit, and needed to be a rescue from a shelter. Well, after less than an hour of looking, we found the Denham Springs Animal Shelter. I went once for a quick look around and picked out a few different possibilities and then Ed came by and chose the newest addition to our family, Princess Lucy Anna.
(known at the shelter as "Faith")


She is a precious addition - around 14 months and 72 pounds of love! Bandit is not too fond of her, yet. They don't fight, but he has let her know who is boss. She is still not sure about the kids or Ed. I can't wait for everyone to meet her. The only thing that I have noticed about her is that she is a thief...if you don't watch out, she will still toys, socks, papers, you name it- but no destruction (yet)!

Thursday night was Literacy Night at school. The theme - Mardi Gras and all things Louisiana (including a Jambalya dinner)!

And then riding lessons, where MV jumped and jumped and jumped some more!



Saturday we spent the morning in the bathroom with no power waiting on the tornado warnings to end! The kids were great about getting ready for the storm but they didn't understand why we were heading to the bathroom when there were no sirens going off. (I still don't understand why there are no sirens here.)

Then when we came out of the bathroom...



(The stool is where our trampoline once stood)



The trampoline took a nose dive over the fence - the strange fact is that it didn't really damage the fence between us and our neighbors. It just lifted straight up and over! The hardest part is explaining to JB that he can't jump!



Now, it is time to get in the Mardi Gras spirit!

2 comments:

  1. Welcome to the family Lucy! Glad y'all are ok!

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  2. I'm glad ya'll are ok! Love the new dog! Our trampoline was thrown into a tree at the tornados last April. We lost all the poles and safety net. But, still had trampoline. Very traumatic for the kiddos! Leslie

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