June Growth

In my end of the week posts I have been tracking the garden growth.

 But please notice the side by side.  

Crazy.

What a difference a month will make.  

I have a few zucchini growing and lots more promised.

LOADS of pea flowers.

Green beans are taking over! 

Tomatoes are catching up, I was a little late starting the seeds and getting them in.

Moment of the Week

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Summer

Breakfast at IHOP- something from our Summer Bucket List

The Garden

Moment of the Week

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the garden

finished with swim lessons until July

Always finding a way to have fun

A freshly shaved Springer.

Lucy after her first visit to the groomer. 

This week was very hectic but fun.  We had swim and VBS and karate and summer school and we met friends at the park and Nate went to the chiropractor.  We will be chilling out a little more next week.  I am looking forward to that. 

Keeping Me Sane

Every few days there is something that happens, that keep me feeling okay.

Maybe even joyful.

It keeps me connected to a life I love(d) where I didn't worry all the time and I wasn't overextended in  nearly all aspects of my life.  

Today it was a brief chat with a woman I really enjoy before church started.  

Her grandson is one of my Wednesday Night  kids.   

She is funny and thoughtful.  

Today I saw her and she gave me a blue star banner for my window.  

Then her grandson commented on a fishing sign that was up as part of the VBS decorations.  

She told him she didn't think there will be fishing at VBS.

I said, "Actually I bought a lot of Swedish Fish for the supply request list. " 

She said, "Oh yeah we saw Swedish Fish on the supply list. Chuck asked, they want people to bring in lutefisk?!"  

I think he was serious because she had to explain to him it was a candy.

I laughed so hard.   

I sat in my pew chuckling for a long time.  

Then I repeated it to Dave.... and now to you, and it still cracks me up.  

I may think of it every time I have Swedish Fish for a long while.

It made my day!

Moment of the Week

Lots of stuff this week.

Movie under the stars on Monday and the Carmike kid series movie on Thursday.

Four early morning swim lessons.

We were flocked

The garden.

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Week three's surprise was the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book.  

We are almost done reading it, so soon we can watch the movie!


This week was SUPER busy for us.
Each morning we needed to be out of the house at 8:10 to get to swim lessons.
After lessons we had lots of errands or appointments.
Next week will be the same but worse.
We have four mornings of swim again, we start summer school, and Nate has VBS in the evenings.

Moment of the Week

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 new sleep shorts

 the garden

lots of jumping for joy

Skeeters and Sweat

It feels like summer has arrived.  

The mosquitoes are out in full force.   I've NEVER seen this many in the four previous summers combined!  

And the heat has been turned up!  All of a sudden it's in the mid 80's and we aren't used to it yet.

  

Just trying to keep cool until we adjust!