Turnaround and Grandparent Visit

Roughly once a year, Joseph has something at work called a turnaround. This means one chemical plant shuts everything down, makes some changes/adjustments, and then starts everything back up again. This process takes several weeks. During this time, everyone, including engineers, is on shift work and covering weekends. Ugh... Joseph leaves around 5:15am and gets home about 6:30pm most days. This next week, he has the night shift so will be gone 5:15pm to 6:30am. We're hopeful it will be done by then. Thankfully, Ashton and Tanner have slept in during this time so I can get some sleep and make the long days go by faster. I've tried to do fun things with the kids like go to the zoo and visit some fun parks. I braved Houston yesterday and went to the zoo with some friends and did our shopping at Sam's Club. I was exhausted. The kids were well-behaved though so that was nice. We also ordered our playground so Ashton helps me at night to put that together. I think we have five steps done and about 100 to go...

During all of this, Joseph's parents came to visit for two days. Joseph was able to change shifts with a co-worker so he could be home for some of their visit. Ashton loved seeing Grandpa and Grandma again. She begged for Grandpa to read stories and sing songs before bed with her. They went to the crocodile encounter place again too.

This girl has no fear!

Loves the carousel. Tanner did too as it put him to sleep!