Siblings, Friends and Family

After this post I will finally be caught up with blogging. I have been 2 months behind for a while. So, this summer we have spent ALOT of time swimming next door. One morning I decided to take Madeline with us to the spray park. Sidney is not a big fan of actually getting in the spray water (she loves the pool though!). The older kids loved it!



We spent the days around the 4th with friends. We had a wonderful cookout with the Marlars. Avery and Leyton are getting so big! I just love their white blonde hair. Sidney loves playing with them.




A few days later we took our slip-n-slide over to the Fish house and let the kids, joined by the Sumner girls, have a blast getting wet.
Look at all those kids!!!

The Sumners will be adding a new member in just a few more weeks!!

This past Friday we took a trip down to Alabama to visit my parents for a few days before heading to Hattiesburg for some school meetings. We had fun swimming nearly all day Saturday, eating watermelon, playing in the jumping house with Ava and Maleigh and riding the 4 wheeler with Papa.


We then drove to Hattiesburg to visit Grandma and Grandpa. I helped take the kids bowling for the 1st time. They all loved it, but Linlee and Sidney got tired of it before the rest of us. Conner could have bowled all day. In fact, he scored second highest out of all of us with a 96. He really got into it.



We also went fishing a good bit.






Ben and I came back last night and left the kids to spend a few more days down there. I think getting out in the boat and slip-n-sliding down the hill are in the plans for the rest of the week. It is weekends/weeks like this that help reinforce our decision to move. If it is not in God's timing to happen this summer, maybe next summer we can get back home. We shall see.

Living in Quarantine

A few months ago we had a leak in our refrigerator that got under the floor. We thought we had it taken care of until we noticed that our wood floor started showing signs of water damage. Late June we decided to get it taken care of.

Because the whole dining room and den area is wood, it all had to be sanded and restained. We lived 10 days with the house in disarray. It was sooooo much fun having to crawl throuh zippered plastic each morning from our room, which by the way held 3 rooms worth of furniture.

It is finally done and looks great. We also had our backyard (which was basicallly a dirt farm) beautifully sodded.



I think this will really help in the sale of the house (hopefully).

Berteau Fashion Show

Poor Conner. He is always the odd man out in just about any group we get together with. So, what other choice does he have when it comes to his sisters playing dress up?? He tries to join in. I encourage him not to put on the fairy dresses so he pulls them off an invents his own character....Captain Underpants. It was hilarious, especially when the other 2 joined him. I don't think I will post those pics for privacy purposes, but I will keep them for future use.....:)

Conner's 5th birthday

I made the promise to Linlee that when she turned 5 that she didn't have to take naps anymore. Since then, Conner has been counting down the days until he could enjoy that same luxury. Needless to say, he has enjoyed the extra playtime.



I knew that this would likely be the last birthday party we would celebrate in Memphis so I decided to do it a little bigger than our normal at home thing. We booked a party at Incredible Pizza which the kids love.


I let Conner choose the guest list. He invited the Fish and Marlar crew as well as his friend Kate which is the usual guest list. This year he also wanted our neighbor girls as well as Kara, Declan and Will Skinner from is school class.


I think once we finally got to go play games, the kids (and parents) all had a blast.