May 31

The Tatum kids came over, because their dad hurt his knee skating the day before. While they were here we took advantage of the extra hands and got some work out of them, and put up the pool.

Best Friends

May 20

We have been planning what we were going to do the night of the eclipse. Our camera lens couldn't get a good picture of the eclipse, but thanks to the ingenuity of Janessa and Zach we got some pretty decent pictures.

The best pictures we got were at sunset.

We had a picnic out is our driveway to watch it. 

Then up on the container to see it go down.

May 17
Some friends from Arkansas were visiting for a  couple weeks. We spent almost every day with them while they were here. Today we went to a neighbor's house to borrow his horses, because it's really hard to stretch two horses between 11 kids. Kacy, Riley Tatum, and Evyn Decker went to get the horses. Zach and Kole Tatum came a little later on our to horses to escort the girls home. Zach had the idea of making a picket line for the horses out of a laso. It worked really good because they had enough food and water and they were easy to get to.

May 16

We decided to give the dogs a bath, it was the first bath the older dogs had. Quincy was a pro at this so the problem was Aleric and Bowdrie. 

 

Aleric wasn't exactly happy about the situation.

 The water was a little colder than we anticipated, so Quincy got a pretty cold. Shea volunteered to hold her till she warmed up.  

Bowdrie kept trying to get away. In these pictures he's doing pretty good.

  

Quincy went into Kacy's room and slept for two hours without moving :).
May 15
We finished the first B.R.I.G.H.T. Lights set. Janessa had a Graduation for all the girls, with the dads to make the presentation.

May 10-13

 Janessa and Mom went to the Arlington Book Fair. While they were there Janessa met her all time hero Sarah Mally.

While they were there they picked up a puppy Kacy has been saving up for. She wants to start a business breeding English Shepherds.