Refresh. Regrow. Renew.

I love days like the one I had on Friday. The kids slept until 830 - Hallelujah! Then we stayed home all day and didn't go anywhere. It was wonderful. We played in the front yard-scratch that. The kids played in the front yard with all the toys I hide in the garage and I trimmed the trees and cleaned up a bit. I really didn't realize how dirty it had gotten until it was clean. It makes me wonder if my house is dirtier than I think it is. Nah, I clean it every couple of months so I'm sure its fine. Besides I think of dust as decorative finishes anyway. So now my front yard looks so much better and I can actually see our lovely bench that seems to be losing its finish. But that's okay because now we can sit out in our lovely, fading bench while staring at our dented garage door and turn into mosquito food while we bake slowly in the Texas heat.



The other source of entertainment came in the form of a lovely afternoon shower. This is my absolutely favorite type of rain. Warm sunshine breaking through the clouds. Warm rain falling gently on our faces and ground; forming glorious puddles of water and mud. Summer showers are also one of the few things that can slow me down and watch the world in all its wonder. I always take lots of pictures of this seemingly uninteresting event because the kids always do something funny that I want to capture and today was no different.


Look at my bubble wand.

Praising God for the rain, perhaps.

Washing Hair. Yep. They are nuts.


Below: Mudslinging. Literally. They would fill up their bucket with mud and throw it at the other one, then trade places. That is my DNA coming out.