Sweet Rock Views This May

 

May's Magic

This May held SO MUCH as all Mays do.  Whew!  

Mother's Day delights.

Noah's birthday.  16.  SIXTEEN. 16, y'all.

We finally got our hands on a couple kittens.  Welcome, Douglas and Finnick. 

Noah got his license and started his first job all within a week of his birthday.  Awwww, Baby's First W4.

We finished up Community Group for this year and also Noah and Anna's classes at Legacy.  Pics are from last week of CG of Noah and Anna and all the kiddos they manage while us grownups meet.  Following pics are from a Biology field trip on the next to last day of class. It's a shame we didn't think to take a whole co-op wide group pic this year!

We finished up our school year - 8th and 9th grades!  Both my babies will be high schoolers this fall.  Technically, Anna already has 3 credits under her belt now.

Last Day of School lunch out.  We tried and and tried to coordinate this tradition with Noah's new work schedule, but it just wasn't coming together.  His 40 hour workweek has taken over his life!  We missed him, but picked him some Chick-Fil-A on our way home.

I finished up teaching at Legacy myself and am glad I did not commit to it again next year.  BUT, it was really nice to hear such kind things as this here as we ended.  Reassuring feedback!

I also finished up my radiation treatments on my nose.  Glad that's behind me!

We also finally bought some crepe myrtles - purple, thankyouverymuch - and got those in the front landscaping. Grow, pretty things, grow!

Lasa's pretty pickings from one of our walks down the driveway.

Lasa wrapped up 1st grade.  She had a great field day and Cinderella Ball and Luau Day and Beach Day and all the school spirit days to mark the whole month.  It was exhausting. Ha!

Josh soldiered on building his shed ... one board at a time!

He also has his garden underway...

Anna got crafty and made this lovely wall art for her room as well as a cat bed out of a pillowcase.

 

A little more contact with Angelique, which is welcome.  Still hoping we can get her to commit to a visit soon.

Then, in a heartbreaking turn of events, we had to put our sweet, sweet Douglas down.  We found him one morning with a broken jaw; we believe he fell down from climbing the porch screens and smacked his face that hard on a chair as he fell.  Tears abounded.  Finnick was a pitiful lonely crying thing himself after Douglas was gone.  We committed to trying to a find a new kitten to be his new playmate.  Hopes weren't high though.  Hearts were still bruised.

Noah found Finnick some stuffed friends in the meantime.  It was precious and pitiful how much that helped.

The pound had no more male kittens unfortunately.  And then I saw a lady on our old neighborhood page offer up 6 week old kittens they needed homes for.  We went with that perfect timing and brought home the last male one she had.  Say hello to Cad Bane, named by Noah. Wish us luck with this cutie pie. Pray protection over them!  Kittens are apparently hard to keep alive. Help, Lord.

Lasa wrapped up her first grade year with an End-of-School-Year Luau that I was committed to attending after missing her field day.  "You sure made that up to me!" she chimed afterwards. ;)

Her bestie there at Benny Bills, Kinley.  Truth be told, though, every day she had a new best friend I would hear about. Love.

Pic with her teacher, Mrs. Coleman.

Already reading up a storm the first weekend of summer.

Anna and her dear friend, Addie, worked on a wall of her cabin/fort.

The weather stayed too cool to put up the pool this month (which I am glad for - a decently cool spring!), but it's about to get hot and Josh is about to go out of town, so he set that bad boy up over this Memorial Day weekend so it could warm in the sun this week.  There were a NUMBER of new holes chewed into it by mice, so let's all pray these patches hold up for the next couple months, okay?

We got some neat hail this month.  It was really something!

And the chickies are full grown chickens now, if you ask me.  They enjoy being let out into the yard and the bunnies don't mind their company.

That about wraps up May.  Between high gas and grocery prices and teen car insurance and regular life, we are too broke to do or report anything else this month.  Holding our breath til the next payday.  Are we the only ones?  May, you were a lot!