Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Too Much Water!!

The rains came...and came...and then came inside!!! After a hard night of rain, I walked into the man cave and then floor seems squishy. At first we were looking for a leak in the ceiling...and then realized it was the floor!! The water had seeped in from the back door and from the front windows. 

We started pulling up some of the flooring.....


And pretty soon we realized we had to pull up ALL the flooring. 




There was SO much water. We let the floor dry out for a week or two...and then put the flooring back down. Thank goodness we had a stash of extra flooring in the garage. 
There was a lot that had been ruined. 


Not the final product...but the good thing about the flood is that we were able to redo the room and make it SO much better than before. We got the leather couch and rug from Mary and Brad. Now it looks so good....and I renamed it "The Study." We put Mike's desk in the corner, couch on one side, 2 leather chairs on the other side, moved this coffee table from the living room and now it's a beautiful finished room!!! And we made sure to fix the drainage issues so a big flood won't happen again! 

 

Monday, January 1, 2024

New Year's Eve....

We spent 5 nights at the ranch and had lots of fun!!

Mom and I modeling the caftans that Mary gave us. 


Game time....

Mom brought a new one called Ransom Notes. And on NYE we played Scattagories.
 

 

Bill made some delish bacon wrapped dates! 


Silliness while shopping...

                                         

Ranch life makes Ranger very tired!!




We missed taking this picture for a year or two..but got it this year!!!

Look at where we started....those baby faces!!!


And where they are now!!! So grownup!


Lola says Happy New Years!


Counting down until 2024....


Sophia and Hutson. A 3rd Herridge kid!


Good Morning 2024!!! Woke up to this amazing sunrise....it's the beginning of a new year with so many possibilities!! 


Friday, December 29, 2023

Ft. Worth....

Dad invited us up to their house over the break. It didn't work out for all of us to come, so Mary, Grant, Lucy, Joshua and I went up for the day. Julie made gumbo (so good!) and this amazing trifle dessert. Afterwards they taught us the basics of bridge! Learning the basics didn't seem too hard!

Glad we were able to spent some time with them! 


 

Thursday, December 28, 2023

Christmas Day!

Before the chaos....

Table is set for Christmas morning breakfast. 



Kids were checking out what Santa brought. 

Ranger loved his Christmas sweater! 






Not the best Christmas morning pictures but I'm glad we tried! It was important to get 6 Wille's in their matching pjs!!



 After 

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Christmas Eve...

Christmas Eve was the usual traditions. We had a mini Christmas Eve Brunch just the 5 of us this year. Scheduling was hard and Mike had to be at the 10:00 service. But we had a mini brunch with not all the usual items but some yummy food. 






 

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Friday, December 15, 2023

Merry Christmas from Ranger!


 The annual Christmas pic from Kara's. Next year we need to get him to smile more. :)