and there are more bats

at least 3 more and one mad one...

the house is starting to look awesome except for all the nasty bat poop, wasp nests and of course, BATS! Lloyd has to wait awhile to take the shutters off Cody's window because the bat behind that one was very mad when we started! YIKES!

We did make it to the beach on Sunday

and I forgot to post about it! They both loved the water. Adrienne was VERY adventurous at first but after she fell under once, she was much more cautious and clung to me pretty tightly. She still enjoyed the water sitting on my lap (except for big waves caused by boats). Cody went pretty deep until I suggested he get his water wings on and come farther in with me. When Adrienne was done playing in the water, she actually said "all done" and took off out of the water. :-) We had a picnic and played on the playground too. It was nice but a lot of work so next time we will make sure Lloyd comes with! LOL

new color

We got quite a bit of hail damage with our last big storm and used the money from the insurance company to replace parts of the wood siding and repaint. We had a hard time picking out a color because our choices were limited because of the roof and brick colors. Lloyd is priming the wood and started painting and I think it is going to look nice. Unfortunately, he has discovered "creatures" love to live behing our window shutters. We have always had a problem with wasps and now we now why. He has uncovered MANY wasp nests, a hornet nest and BATS!!!! And still has several sets of shutters to go!

Corn on the cob

Had a very nice relaxing day today... beautiful weather (about 75 and sunny). Lloyd has been working on re-siding parts of the house and is now priming that new wood siding. We are trying to decide on a shade of light brown. We would really like grey but it won't go well with our dark brown roof and beige/brown and white bricks.

We had slow-cooked ribs and corn on the cob for dinner and we gave Adrienne her first ear of corn and she loved it! I am trying to find the picture I took of Cody eating his first ear of corn... it was super cute!

I am hoping to go to the beach tomorrow. It was mid 90s yesterday so that should have warmed the lakes up pretty good. Tomorrow it is supposed to be low 80s and Cody has been asking me daily when we can go.

Fourth of July

Lloyd got off work late tonight and has to be back in at 5am tomorrow so he is passing on the fireworks tonight for the first time. Since he will be going to sleep and Adrienne's normal bed time is 7pm - 8pm, we decided to leave Adrienne home with Lloyd and let her sleep. We did a few at home and sparklers and Adrienne couldn't care less - all she wanted to do was swing. :-)

Cody and I loved the fireworks - he didn't love the noise - it seemed louder than normal? LOL The fireworks were beautiful though and he loved them too and was sad when it was over! He fell asleep on the way home asking me to watch Curious George when we got home :-)