115 Months!

THANK YOU all so much for your grace yesterday. I try really hard to keep this an uplifting space, but I had n-o-t-h-i-n-g left in my spirit Saturday night after the heat and the yard sapped it all out of me. Thank you for sitting through a much bigger whine-fest than I like to put in print and for sharing kind words. That was a blessing!

So now...howsabout we talk about Saturday? 

Saturday was our 115th monthiversary, and it went pretty much NOTHING like we planned. ;) Nevertheless, here is the story of the day!

We had originally planned to go out for breakfast in the morning, since our special day fell on a weekend. But then the need to work on the yard came up, and we would have had to go out at 5 or 6 in the morning to have that breakfast and allow Ryan to get working before the heat of the day. So we postponed that idea for a later date, and instead we went on a walk with Lexi!

We came back home and were busy working on things around the house, when I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye. I glanced out in the back yard, and LOOK!!!!!!!!!

I. Lost. My. Mind. I was going on and on about my love for this deer and snapping a million pictures. Ryan was kind enough to keep Lexi occupied so she didn't bark and scare away the deer. It didn't stay long, but ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Day made!

My friend Amber was coming to visit, so I spent part of the morning making lunch and our dessert! 

While I showed Amber around the house and we caught up on life, Ryan started working outside. The first chore was filling with dirt the areas that were not graded very well. We had huge puddles where any hope of grass had just drowned, so he tried to level them out. 

He paused to have lunch with us, and then he got back to work with seeding!

Amber and I did a little documenting of the seeding work, but we left to check out the river walk! Ended up walking four miles! 

When we came back, Ryan and our neighbor were out scattering straw, so we jumped in to help. I knew it was late enough in the day that if all hands didn't go on deck, we would never get it done before nightfall. 

We took a break to go for ice cream, which became our official monthiversary date. Amber went with us, and then she went home from there.

Ryan and I picked up more supplies and went back to seeding and straw-scattering. Again, our neighbor came to help, and seriously the ONLY reason we were able to finish before dark was because of her help. She was SUCH a blessing!

We were both utterly exhausted from working so hard and fast (and in the heat) but God gave us a BEAUTIFUL sunset!!

I joked with Ryan that 115 months ago, on that Florida beach, I sure hoped we could reseed a yard in 115 months. :) Despite the day not going as we planned, I have to say that I am grateful for Ryan, his hard work, his vision for our home, and his determination to make everything arrive at its fullest potential. It's been a while since we did a manual labor job together, and it was good for us, I know. And now I can check off seeding a yard from my bucket list! :)