Olga in the Tournament Championship!! Stingers win 23-2

Olga at the plate!!! Watch that eagle eye..

And they came two by two...

24 inches of rain in 72 hours! Now this guy has the right idea!

We have been all but washed away. Our pool is flooded (sounds funny, but it so is not!), the gentle creek 10 feet away from our house is running like a raging river and 189 roads in our county are closed! They are calling it a 100 year flood - I have now lived through a 20 year flood in Colorado (scared me half to death) and now this. At least we are all safe and for the moment DRY! Another storm is headed our way tonight and is predicted to hang around until next Wednesday... another 7 days of this! Well enjoy some of the pics from our "flood"!

Now to escape into something more adorable! Our little man enjoying his watermelon and Dog. Don't ya just want to know what is on his mind??? Can you believe that he is almost two??? Where has the time gone?

We have a pool...mostly!

We have a pool! What a beautiful place our yard will be...soon. They are working on the completion of the pool and landscaping this next week...and then...completion! I will bring you more pictures as they complete the work!

It's beginning to look like...well...sort of...

This week we will see BIG changes, or so I am told. We still have a hole, we now have a patio cover as well. This week we should see the liner

go in and the rocks being added. We are very hopeful that the pool build will go fast now that the French Drain has been added to divert our natural spring. We might even see the waterfall start to take shape. Today - Fathers Day - we are going on a hunt...a driftwood hunt. We need some natural accents for our swimmin' hole and hopefully the lake will have just what we need.

As you spend today hopefully enjoying your father, remember it is our heavenly father that we need to be especially thankful for. I am so thankful that my earthly father helped introduce me to my heavenly father. I truly know what it means to have your fathers love...both of them. I want to say thanks dad, for giving me a glimpse of how God really loves me. You have made it so much easier to experience and believe that I am loved by the one and only living God. Happy Fathers Day, Dad!

We have a hole!

We are making some progress! They dug the hole...finally! and hit an underground spring of water. Not a huge spring, just enough to have to dig a french drain to the creek (thankfully it is on our property too!) for drainage. Then we had to wait for the hole to dry out...whew 4 days with no rain did the trick! Today they are at it again. Digging, grading, filling in drainage with rocks. They are busy today! We can slowly start to see what it might look like! Keep posted to see what's new at the Tidwell Swimin' Hole!

Dear God, I know we are in a drought...

We can envision our beautiful backyard oasis, I have even bought the signs for our new pool. We need 7 days with NO rain. Only seven days. Last year we went 38 days no rain, this year we are lucky to make 2 days. My backyard dreams might be for next year, as our landscaper jokes! He says I wasn't clear in my prayers, he thinks God understood me to say I wanted to swim in June 2010, not June 2009. So I am imploring you all to pray with us - - - 7 days people! Our lake is 4 feet above full pool - we have enough water for a while, and it is not like I am asking for eternity...7 DAYS sans rain! Once we get our 7 days, we can get the hole dug, liner in, rocks placed and concrete poured. Then we are two and a half weeks from ... ahhhh bliss! If you pray with us, You will get an invite!!! Pictures of the dig will be forthcoming, maybe tomorrow????

SEVEN DAYS! Please!

Piano, Guitar, and all that Jazz

Our little Miss T. loves her some music. She loves to sing, dance, play and mostly perform. She would love to perform on a big stage someday...we will have to see about that, but for now she performs on a little stage. Her latest schievement was a music recital that her teacher puts on every spring. Miss T. got to go last because she plays two instruments. She was wonderful on both. Her Guitar music was "You are so good to me" sung by Third Day and her Piano piece was the hymn "For the beauty of the earth".  It is fun to watch her progress. She just loves her some music.... that one!