Crazy Weather

We had some crazy weather and now we wait to see what the flooding will be like after 2 feet of rain in 2 weeks in Oklahoma and Kansas.  It's all headed here via the Arkansas river.

The crest is now next Friday as they are expecting another 4 to 6 inches in a couple of days.  

Typical day:

Saturday May 25th:

That thin line in the center....that's the 12-14 foot wall from the lock in the photo above.

More photos of flooding that has started.

Typical Before:

 May 25th of River Front Park:

The poopy brown is the park.  It's expected to rise 10 more feet.

May 26th:

Sweeden Island Campground on the river in Pottsville is closed.

Normal above the wall is 12-14 feet high. Below it is gone, under water.

 

On the left is Jared's relative's house normally.  On the right is the house the day before the levee broke.

The levee letting out so much river water lowered the level so the house didn't flood.

Heading over the bridge to check out Dardanelle's side.

This is the park were we watch 4th of July fireworks at.  The roof of a pavilion just above water.

The levee breach sent water all the way back up to Dardanelle stopping just short of the middle school.

   

This angle look toward Dardanelle and the highway to Jared's family on the right.

The rest of the highway.

It's gone down now about 7 feet.

Clean up time!

Birthday Boyz

Malaki turned 9 and the next day Jared turned 25.

Summer Shave Down

Bought some clippers and did it myself.  If someone where here to hold them it would have gone a lot faster. One of these days I'll get around to doing their faces better.

Happy Mom's Day!!

Cinco de Mayo

Instead of a Travelers game in Little Rock, Canyon's team did a Naturals game in Fayetteville.

It was dog day so Malaki and Ranger went too.  My guys would have been too crazy.  Malaki got 1st place for smallest dog of the day.

Then back to Russellville for Mojitos and Margaritas and a Dr. Pepper!

Beautiful Luna Moth

So pretty and big.  Probably about 5 inches by 5 inches.  It stayed next to the front door for 5 or 6 days and then was gone.

Special Olympics Area 17

Wow!  What a crazy Special Olympics season.

Friendship didn't appear to want to do S. O. this year so at the last minute we joined the Dover team.  The Dover team told us Canyon could not do 2 field events.  He has always done 2 field events so I was determined to set the record straight.  They had 1 whole month and still, no one could prove to me with any rule that he couldn't.  So as far as we knew by Friday, he was going to be entered in 1 field event and a running event.  Turns out, at 10 pm that night before the games, they got conformation from the area director that he in fact could be in 2 field events.  As we found that at the morning of, we also learned the that 1st and 3rd pages of athletes entry forms for Dover were unaccounted for and of course Canyon was on one of them. So 9 of the Dover 13 were left out.  They got that all sorted out but since they were now write ins, they were teamed up with random people and ended up competing with people out of their age range and with the opposite sex.  Which is not how it is supposed to be done.  He did not get a first place this year...he possibly got 2 2nd place medals.  We're unsure because of the age differences.  It was a mess.  In the past, you had to get a 1st to go to state but the numbers are all messed up and someone has to go through them all to figure it out. Unfortunately, when it was all said and done, he did not qualify for state this time. :(

ANYWAY...

It was held at Vilonia this year.  It was a reschedule because of bad storms the weekend it was supposed to be.  Not as many people showed up this year possibly due to the reschedule and that Vilonia is 30 minutes father than where it is usually held.

Dover did not have a shot put to practice with so Canyon did the soft ball throw.  

And instead of the run he got put back in the standing long jump which he loves.

He did great!

Sahara's co-worker, Katie, went with us.  After his events, we hit David's Burgers!

Easter Day

The bunny came.

Sahara made me a pressed flower frame and gave Canyon a shirt from the shop Jared works at. (He made it)

We have a nest with babies on the front porch under the kitchen window in a window flower box.  So cute!

In the afternoon we headed to Belleville to Kristy and Damon's house for food and a hunt.

There were 400+ eggs hidden for 12-14 hunters.  Canyon got 26.  1 had $2 in it.  The rest candy.

Beautiful warm day.