This guy...

It's fun to scroll back through the pictures on my phone every now and again.  It really gives a quick overview of what's happening, what's important and what's true.  Texas was just hit by Hurricane Harvey and received over 50 inches of rain in just a few days.  That's the amount of rain we normally receive in 6 months.  Predictably, many homes and streets flooded.  It has been a crazy couple of weeks.  First anticipating the storm, stocking up on water and food and testing our generator in case we lost power.  Then the waiting.  Then the night when we started reading up on the reservoirs near our home and realized that the likelihood of our home flooding was high.  Like most people here we don't have flood insurance because... we don't live in a flood plain.  Turns out this was a 1000 year event (should only happen every 1000 years :O).  So we had a roller coaster couple of days, preparing to receive water.  We took all of our furniture upstairs and worked for hours in our backyard redirecting water that was pouring into our yard from the skies and from our neighbor's downspouts.  Turns out all of hers were pointed straight at our yard and it really looked like water would come in through that side first.  There were 3 separate times where we certain we would flood and all the anxiety and worry that comes with that (stress eating is real people)!

Long story short, we were so blessed to be spared and our home stayed dry.  But at some point during the disaster, I looked over at this guy....

and realized there was no one I would rather go through tough times with.  He is knowledgeable, competent, hard working and intuitive.  And then, if he doesn't know the answer to something, he immediately goes to work finding it.  He's a machine and did SO much work on SO little sleep.

To top it off, literally the hour that we were confident our home would stay dry, he was loading up the truck with Jonah and a group of friends and heading over to a stranger's home to help remove flooded furniture and drywall.  Seriously.

For the next 12 days, he worked all but a few.  Mostly on homes of people he doesn't even know.  He was invaluable at all of those places because he is so competent, hard working (see above) etc... I'm so just thankful for his example.  I love this guy.

Looking back further in my pics, I found a few like this:

After seeing "Wonder Woman" together :)

Saying goodbye before heading to scout camp with Daniel, in the blazing JUNE heat!!

Helping out at the High Adventure for Isaac and Jonah in Austin

Watching Isaac's band preview with Lucy

So much time spent on our kids and working with the youth at church.  Time he could be doing other, more enjoyable activities of his choosing.  And then there are few more pics like these:  This guy!

Building a new fence for us and our neighbor (and teaching Jonah and Isaac to work alongside him)

Putting new brake pads on my car, because he knew that was something he could do and didn't need to pay someone else to do it.  

And then these... just because.  

Celebrating 20 years at Taste of Texas!  

Wearing the Harry Potter shirt I got him and trying out his new church shoes, while being exposed by the kids!  "Boyeee!"  

Love you Curtis Turner