Poor hubby recently had to repair the incoming water line to our house, following our foundation repair...we'd developed a leak due to a cracked pipe. I was about to throw in the towel and hire a plumber, but hubby persisted....finally, the leak is fixed, and hubby saved us about $1000! Way to go honey!
E and I worked together on personalized stepping stones for hubby and my dad....you haven't lived until you've dealt with a hyper three year old and wet cement... But I know that the guys are going to love their special treats! 
...and please don't come another day! Our poor lace bark elm has taken another beating, and will have to have about five more branches taken out....and our Chinese Pistache by our driveway is going to have to come down.....see the huge crack down the trunk? It already had a small crack that we noticed last year. We "cabled" the tree to try to help it heal. Well, the cabling did keep it from falling on our home and our neighbor's home, but now we're going to lose the poor tree anyway. Our neighborhood really took a beating. Almost every single home has tree damage of varying severity, and many have roof damage as well. Nothing like Texas weather!
These two totally crack me up when they get together....they even had matching dresses on last Sunday! Too sweet! Little girls are so much fun!
E has developed an odd way of taking a bow after she does something she's proud of. She showed me her tilt-to-the-side bow after hopping down her hopscotch drawn on the sidewalk in our backyard - so silly!
This morning we visited a local farmer's market with our friend Laura - so much wonderful produce! I stocked up on fresh peaches, cantaloupe, purple-hull peas, tomatoes, yellow squash and more. Near the area where we were shopping, E spotted a fountain and was excited to have another opportunity to throw in pennies! She's been enamored with this concept lately! And she finally will toss the money in...for the longest time she would just hold onto it and didn't understand about tossing it in. Now, she wants to put pennies in every fountain we pass. Guess I'd better keep a good penny stash in my wallet!
