New family members

The weekend before Father's Day we traveled across the state to meet our newest family member, Sam! Sam was born on Memorial Day, so he was almost 2 weeks old when we met him. Audrey and Miles are so excited to have a new cousin to play with, although they were a little bored with him this time around. 

Luckily, we met another new cousin this weekend, cousin Chase! Chase and Ellie came to visit with Mike & Tiffany and Connie & Dave. Miles loved having an older boy to play with and all the kids got along great. Here's GG-mama with 5 of her 6 great grandchildren. Our new-newest cousin was born in Mississippi a few days before this photo was taken. Hopefully we'll be able to get a photo with ALL of her great grandkids together at some point

On the way to Memphis we stopped in Jackson to visit my other grandmother Alice. She was so surprised by our stop and we loved seeing her and catching up.

While in Memphis, we attempted to extract Miles's tooth that was dangling by a thread - it seemed. We even bribed him with cash and books (his preferred payment). After this picture he wouldn't let anyone near his mouth, and the tooth lasted for another week before finally popping out.

The weekend was perfect because we were able to time our visit to see not only the TX family, but PopPop and BeeBe  who were in from NC.

Yay for fun fast family visits!

And in other news, I've been hired as the librarian and technology instructor at St. Joseph School.  It's a smaller school, PreK-8 with just one class per grade. I'll see all the kids in library once a week and also in the tech lab once a week. I wish the two spaces were integrated, but that's something we can work toward. I went in last week and rearranged the space. It may be hard to see in this picture, but I made a space for storytime and the "E" (Everyone) books under the window. All those stacks of books on the table are being pulled out due to age or low use. Miles went in for a while last week and helped me stamp them all. I'm really excited about this opportunity but will go ahead and proclaim that this blog will be even less updated than it is now! I hope to at least keep some mobile postings going even if I can't write a lot about what is going on with our lives.

Happy Father's Day!

Miles met Jordan McRae today

1 week

The wait is over! Our nephew Sam arrived May 28, Memorial Day. We are so excited and happy for Megan and Kyle. We can't wait to go visit and meet him in person.

Sadly, our egg watch in the back yard ended. The eggs disappeared. We'd like to think (and tell the kids) that they moved to a new nest, but alas, it was more likely a blackbird or raccoon or other varmint that got 'em. Judging by the broken branch beside the nest, I'd say coon. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Last weekend we met our friends Karley and Abby and their parents down on Market Square. The kids scootered around and wore themselves out. Then we treated ourselves with some Rita's Italian Ice, Yum! Except for Audrey who had to have sprinkles. Of course she just licked all the sprinkles off the ice cream and left the rest for Wayne to finish.

Today Miles started basketball camp at UT. He was pretty excited after attending a few games in Thompson Boling Arena this season. He's ready to go pro.

He was most excited to see his favorite players in real life. This is Jeronne Maymon, #34, his #1 fave.

Doughnut day!

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