Jun 29

Wednesday Night: Date Night

Wednesday my Mother in law was visiting, so I asked her if she wouldn’t mind watching the kids for a bit. She said sure, and James and I got to go out to dinner. Just the two of us.

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We headed to one of our favorite places.

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We had a delicious meal, and enjoyed the quiet.

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We decided to head downtown and check out a bookstore.

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I found way too many books!

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The “Cooky Book” had to be mine!

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I love it, cookies from the 60’s!

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I opened up the pages and out popped three hand-written recipes.

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Great finds and what a fantastic date night too!

Jun 28

Yesterday…

Yesterday the weather did this…

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It was way too warm, and the littlest ones did this…

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Thade enjoyed the quiet and played the playstation.

I finished this,

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and read five chapters into this one.

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So good.

Today we’ve been out once,

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It is already miserably hot out, so the kids didn’t want to stay out too long…

We came back in, and I gave this little gal a bath.

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Hopefully she’ll stay a bit cooler. The cat has already parked himself in front of an air-conditioning vent, so he is set.

The kids are already grumpy, and really bored with the indoors. Come on rain storm, we need this heat-wave out of here.

Jun 27

Heat-Wave

Summer has just begun and today marks the first excessive heat-wave warning of the season. We are under heat warnings through Saturday. You know what that means…

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Less time out here,

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more time in here.

It is going to be a long and hot week. Stay safe and cool in this heat-wave.

Jun 25

On Friday Something Awesome Happened

Last week my Mother in law said that she had a surprise for the kiddos, but she needed our o.k. first. She convinced us both, and on Friday she brought the surprise!

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They prepped the ground, and worked way too hard in the Summer sun.

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Have you figured out what the surprise is yet?

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This might help a little.

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It is a Pool!!!!!

The boys were beyond excited, and we were too. The little guys even helped out a bit with the set-up.

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James came home from work, and helped out too.

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The new pool was ready to be filled by the evening. We finished the rest of the task on Saturday, and had a blast swimming!

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I still can’t believe that she did that for us. It is so amazing, and the kids love swimming! So if I don’t get anything done this Summer you know why, I’ll have a pretty decent tan though.

Jun 24

Seed Sorting and Storing

The weather is getting a bit warm, and the snow peas have started to go to seed. I’ve decided to collect the seeds once again, and save them for either an Autumn garden, or for next year’s Spring garden.

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Harvesting the seeds was easy-peasy… I picked a few pea pods for dinner, and left a few pea pods on the plant to grow. I let the peas grow as big as they could, and then I picked off the pea pods when the pod had dried. I then shucked out the peas, and dried them for several days.

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I counted out the seeds, and put them in little envelopes to store for the next garden. I decided to take a little time and separate last year’s Green Bean seeds too. I had a bunch of them. I’m storing the seeds in a kitchen cabinet, so they aren’t too hot, or too cold. It was a fun little project to organize, and it has me thinking ahead to the next garden.