The play by play

Okay, I promised a bit more detail about our Spring Break excursions, so here it is. Friday afternoon we left for Blue Haven via Clovis, where a random person lives who said she wanted to buy our saltillo tile that doesn't match the saltillo tile in our house. So we stopped there and dropped off the tile, then went to camp. We were there all day Saturday and Sunday working on stuff around camp, and then we left Monday morning. While we were there, we met with our builder to get some more ideas about our cabin. Now, he is working on plans and gave us a timeframe of 3-6 months from start to finish. We're just not sure when he'll be able to start given other projects he's working on and the weather up there. Let's just say this: when it's done, you're gonna want to go there. We can't wait to be able to enjoy our cabin!

Okay, on to the next leg of our trip. Monday we drove to Weatherford from camp, via Lubbock to drop off dirty laundry and water our plants (which, I'm happy to report, are doing rather well! That's for another update.). That night we got to mom's and the rains came tumbling down. The next day we drove over to Hurst so Chad could take his final nursing test and yep, you guessed it, he passed with an A. So now, he plays the waiting game to get his application approved, get a date for clinicals, take clinicals, take NCLEX, become RN. Our guess is that this will take somewhere around 9 months for everything to be finished.

After Weatherford, we made our way down to San Antonio via Georgetown. We got to see Shawn, Emma, and the girls for a couple hours and went to church with Shawn (Emma stayed home with the kids since they had been sick). It was fun to see them and get to see the church they attend and where Shawn preaches.

Last stop was San Antonio. I mentioned random Craig's List lady earlier in the post, and maybe that requires a little bit more explanation. You all have seen the tile busted-out pictures in a previous post and the tile that was completely different from the saltillo that is installed in our den and hallway. Well, we wanted to put the same saltillo in our entry way, so we went over to our local home depot and found 12x12 saltillo tile there. Or maybe I should say "saltillo" tile. When we got it home, we realized that it was bigger than the original tile by about a half inch, not the same color, thinner, and pretty much not authentic at all. Great. Luckily, the previous owners of our home left a partial box of the original tile in the shed. After some digging on the internet, Chad found out that the guy who distributes this tile used to ship to Home Depot, but the orders were so big that he couldn't keep up and now distributes out of San Antonio. So, we made arrangements to pick up the tile in San Antonio, and while we were there we spent a few days with Dad & Ginny. Erin, Josh & the kids also made their way over and we got to see them. It was a successfull trip; we got the tile, we got to see family, and we got home in one piece, with enough time to go to church and sleep a few hours before I had to go back to work.

And that brings us to today. We're back at home, Chad is working on installing the tile in the entryway (finally), and we had a great Spring Break. Now the official "end of school" countdown is on: 10 weeks!