Signing Off Again...

Once again the Maynard family is moving to a new town in a new state.  Memphis was really good for our family in a lot of ways and we met some very wonderful people while we were there.  Unfortunately it was not meant to be.  My wife Pamela needed to have a job to support our family and she found one in Texas.  I have a job in the same district as she does.

In fact I drove out here to Texas on Saturday and I have been working since Monday of this week.  This weekend will conclude our Memphis adventure.  Pamela and I will drive up together on Friday night.  Saturday afternoon we will be loading our moving truck and then it is back to Texas to unload and get ready for work on Monday!  Wow, that is a lot to do!

The good news is that we are able to keep Dolly!  We were going to be giving her up for adoption since we had been told that we weren't allowed to have dogs.  The property manager went ahead though and gave us permission to keep her!  Sadly the same day that we got that good news, Cleo the Cat made a run for it and has been MIA ever since.

We only lived in Memphis for less than a year.  During the last days that I was there I did a lot of driving around.  There are things that I really enjoyed about living in a city, for the most part though I am more of a country boy, and being out here feels good.  I passed by the Fire Fighting Museum and felt sad that I never got to take my boys there, it looks really cool.

We shall see how this next adventure goes, till next time in http://outlawsofgunbarrelcity.blogspot.com/

Adios Amigos

Easter Weekend Part 4

After Curtis woke up from his long nap I took the boys out to the backyard to play and have some fun.  Curtis saw me carrying out some wiffle balls and so he asked for them by saying, "Balls."  It was cute and I was proud that he was able to do that without any coaching.

Xander is getting a lot closer to Dolly, it is going to be so hard now to give her up.  Here he is trying to play fetch with her.

Xander and I have been working on T-ball lately.  Apparently he got bored with it.

Here Curtis is trying to pet the dog.  This is such an improvement.  He used to cry any time the dog touched him.  He is really starting to get attached to her.  It helps that she has finally learned to control her puppy craziness and be gentle with the children.  She has started watching over the boys and has become very protective of them.

Since I have to go back to work tomorrow and we won't have the dog for much longer I decided to make the most of this day.  We went to the dog park to fly a kite and run around a bit.  Xander threw his plane in the lake, which was tricky to get back, luckily I didn't fall in.  Dolly chased ducks around and had a good time.

The boys got baths when we got home.  Xander had a nasty surprise though, a tick the size of a dime was hiding behind his ear.  Luckily we got it removed before it could latch on.  An exciting way to conclude an epic Spring Break.  Final week at Treadwell here I come!

Happy Easter everyone.