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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

4th of July 2025


 







Around 3AM on July 4th 2025 an unimaginable tragedy took place in the Texas hill country. They're calling it a 100 year flood. Over 100 people lost their life. The Guadalupe river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. Among the 100 people who lost their lives were around 28 children (at this point some are still missing and or unidentified) 27 girls from one cabin at camp mystic were missing, the whole cabin along with their counselors were washed away in the flood. To say my heart has been heavy would be an understatement. The coverage has been devastating. We pray God gives the families and the community a peace that doesn't even make sense. 

BLESSED




Look at all these children...breath in their lungs




The morning of July 4th we had heard no news about the hill country yet. We were on the fence about the parade and I asked the kids if they wanted to paint or go and they said paint 

We made the cute firecracker feet prints. They look the same size but the one on the right is beautiful and the left is Carolina. 


Welllllll when we were done and the parade was about over Carolina announced she was ready to go to the parade. My heart broke!! She didn't understand it was one or the other. We tried our best to get there but it was over. We tried to cheer them up and got them a cake pop and breakfast at Kroger Starbucks. 


It was a whole ordeal, we went to the bathroom and beau peed all over the floor and his shorts and shoes. Dane had to go get me the diaper bag from the bar so I could clean him up and change him. 



We stayed in the pool almost all day. It's hard looking back at these pictures knowing what I know now about our fellow Texans grief and terror. 






Pam's neighbors got the cutest basset hound puppy...his name is Frankie or frank when he's bad lol 




Fireworks! 





God bless the USA....and Texas. Lord please be with these families...they are weeping...we are weeping with them, and you with us. 



Hello July!


Red white and cute! Our little non toy boy fell asleep with his Elmo phone 

Carolina wanted a toy really bad that was $25. I told her no because she had just had a birthday party and got lots of new toys. She was very persistent about this toy and kept seeing it on tv and even drew a picture of it. I told her she could work for money and help me until she earned enough money to buy the toy herself. We put the picture on the fridge next to a list of ideas for her to help with. I thought it would take her awhile to earn the money but she was very eager and always asking to do something. It only took her three days to earn the money and partly because my mom paid her $10 to do some things at her house one day lol 


Here she is emptying trash! 


Role playing 😍


They had strawberry shortcake after dinner one night 



Carolina was cute in her long pig tail braids 


Beau has had awful sleep lately. I started warming up one of his puppies and putting it in the microwave and he's been sleeping with it. (It's meant to be warmed up it had lavender stuff inside of it) 


Full bed full heart 


We went to the yellow house on Tuesday 


Beau took a nap in nanas bed 


Carolina with her money 


Matching! 



Beau didn't want a picture. 


Of course first thing Wednesday morning Carolina reminded me she was ready to go get her toy. My mom thought it was unfair for beau to not get something so she gave him $10. He picked this electric drill


It's a lil woodzeez tree house 


I made the mistake of mentioning Jaelyn being at nanas house so we had to go over there and Carolina enjoyed playing with her new toy with Jaelyn 



Carolina's crazy ringlets 


Their hair is so curly 


The humidity just really adds to it 




Helping make ice cream sandwiches 



Fell asleep holding his drill....to go to sleep he counts screws, not sheep!