The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. ~Edwin Way Teale

May 1

Ella, Kelly, and I visited (niece) Sarah’s ‘Cool Stuff’ booth 

at the Algood Mingle Market where she sells her handmade

items like hats, totes, and pot holders. I bought a couple of

pot holders. So pretty and very useful.

Also a good day for some Lazy Cow Creamery ice cream with Knox and Neil ...

… and Kelly and Ella

May 2

Let’s go to Sunday school!

May 7

What’s (or who’s) in the box?

She had the best time playing with this big box

Kids don’t want the toys. They just want the empty box.

This is Knox’s first year playing kid’s pitch baseball

Fewer hits, more walks and steals

He’s playing first base

May 9

Happy Mother’s Day to my awesome daughters

Holly and Kelly

who are awesome moms!

May 11

Loves picking flowers wherever she goes

May 13

Sunny (in your face) day at the ballpark

Knox at bat

May 14

Aunt Holly came to watch the game

Holly is an Ella magnet, always

May 17

Kelly and Kerry celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary (a day late)

May 18

Run, Knox, run!

May 19

Anniversary breakfast at Grandma’s Pancake House

Happy 48 to us!

May 21

Good day for blowing bubbles ...

… and visiting with her cousin Elijah who ate lunch with us

before heading to school for his English final

May 26

Last day of 3rd grade for Knox

This boy made all A’s all year

May 27

Spotted a flower child clover princess at the ball game

After the ball game, we hit the carnival at the fairgrounds

and so did a gazillion other people

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a crowd this size

at a local carnival (or fair)

Long long long lines for every ride and food vendor

This was Ella’s first time to ride the rides

She loved it

Her mom snapped this pic

Grandpa rode the merry go round with her

as he’d done with Knox when Knox was this age

Ella loved it. Grandpa just about fell off the platform.

Kelly managed to grab this shot of Knox 

as he whooshed past us on the roller coaster

Kimbroughs at the carnival

Knox ran into one of his baseball team mates

They endured the long lines and had a blast

riding the big rides together

Ella happily photobombed

Fair Hair

Don’t Care

May 28

Tornado warning around one pm

Turned out to be an EF-0 tornado (65-85 MPH wind)

that touched down on the too-close-for-comfort outskirts of town

and left damaged trees and buildings and power outages

Caught us all by surprise. Thankful it wasn’t worse.

Their dad dusted off Knox’s little roller coaster he rode 

when he was Ella’s age and put it together for Ella to enjoy

More fun than pint-sized humans should be allowed to have

May 29

Our resident chipmunk

He chased a bird away so he could munch sunflower seeds in peace

He (she?) lives under the deck

May 30

Caught grandson Elijah in a pensive moment

during Sunday lunch at El Tapatio

Granddaughters Shelby and Ella

playing guess-which-hand

Parking lot group shot

(Almost my whole family—missing a son-in-law who was working)

May 31

Memorial Day

We are free

because

they were brave