May 2020

 It's been so long since we've blogged. I try to keep this up more for my sake than anything else, and I really didn't have much of an excuse. I was hoping my first post in 7 months would be Eden's birthday letter, but I can't find it (insert crying face). I might have to rewrite it and make it her 2 1/2 letter! So in the mean time, I will start from May where I last left off.

I took up weaving for a small part of the year.
It is really fun to do but takes a lot of time.
Here are the weaves I made for Mother's Day.

Eli graduated speech therapy! Very proud of our little man!

Joey had to do school at home for the rest of first grade.
Here is the fun art he got to recreate.

I try to get a picture of Joey at the end of the year with his teacher.
We snuck this one while we were dropping off school supplies.

We found a green anole in our kitchen in the spring time and we kept it on a whim since we had an extra animal tank in the closet and Joey was very happy about that! He ended up naming her Emily after the girl who runs the Youtube channel Snake Discovery. Green anoles are pretty cool lizards, being able to change colors from brown to bright green. We fed her mainly crickets and kept her next to our frogs.

We had Emily for a few months but the pet stores started having a cricket shortage and we couldn't get food for her to eat (I didn't trust backyard bugs if they have been touched by pesticide). We had to let her go very end of July in our backyard, but we enjoyed having a lizard for a couple months! I told Joey no more pets until after Sam's done with fellowship and we move back to San Antonio.

Eden is the sweetest little girl. Sadly she lives in Texas where there are bugs she is allergic to! She ended up with a bug bite right under her eye and her face swelled up the next day, poor thing! Luckily it didn't bother her too much.

When we were in quarantine we tried to get out when we could. It was so nice the time that Sam had at home with us before they okayed him to go back to work! Here we are at the Medina river. Very pretty!

Last but not least Sam's co-chief Bryant got a couple of jet skis for some time and invited us to go play on them. We had a blast trying them out a few times with his family!

Complete with a floaty for the kids to be pulled on!

Eli is our bravest child.

They could fit almost our entire family!

We did all our jet skiing at Canyon Lake. We've enjoyed camping here before and since. We love the wildlife here. The deer will get pretty close!

Bryant also caught a frog for Joey to enjoy!

I don't know how I would have survived the initial lockdown period without Sam. With at home learning and shutdowns it really helped to have Sam help me with these sweethearts.