My handy husband

My manly, tool-bearing man just made bunk beds! Okay, not just, he's been in the process of making bunk beds for 6 months, but he's done! And they are great. The kids are so excited. We were going to put one bed in Josh's room and one bed in Kayla's and Lindsay's room for now, but they were too excited to have them stacked, so now we have 3 kids in one room. Bedtime just got even more exhausting. I didn't think that was possible, but at least they are excited to go to bed. We're hoping that lasts a couple more days.

Kayla really wants to sleep in the top bunk, but for now we are only letting Josh. Kayla is a wild sleeper. The deal is she has to stay in her bed for a whole night before she can sleep in the top bunk. She might be 10 before that happens. We always find her in the funniest sleeping positions. Here are a couple places we've found her asleep.



















She always starts out in her bed, but she never ends up there. It's usually the floor, so last night being her first night in a new bed, we weren't surprised that she wasn't in her bed this morning, but I did start to panic when I couldn't find her. First I looked in to the side of the bed and all over her room, including the closet then I searched the whole upstairs. No Kayla. I was getting nervous. I thought maybe she had climbed to the top bunk with Josh so I went back to her room, but she wasn't on the top bunk. That was when I thought to look under the bed. Sure enough, she was right in the middle of the bed underneath it, in a perfectly straight line. She's a nut! I didn't get a picture this morning, but these give you a pretty good idea, that this is not a rare occurance.

Clint is now outside cleaning the garage because he's determined to park both cars in it after six months of only having space for one because of all the wood and tools. This is not the Texas way of doing things we realize, but I'll save that subject for another blog.

I like meat

The other night at the dinner table my kids discovered that animals are the meat we eat. We were having hamburger in what we were eating and somehow it came up that it was cow that we were putting in our mouths. Kayla and her friend Nikelle didn't believe us. "No, we don't eat cows." And they laughed. Lindsay said, "Moo." And Josh decided to be the expert on the subject. He told us that bacon comes from pigs to which Kayla laughed again, "Noooo it's not." He continued, "And the hamburger between the bun is cow and the hotdog between the bun is. . ." He paused and got a horrified look on his face. "Dog?" Then Kayla and Nikelle were really wondering what we were feeding them, and even our animal/meat expert was stumped. So we laughed and tried to convince them that we don't eat dogs. Luckily we never got into what is really in hotdogs, because that probably wouldn't have helped the situation.