Sunday, July 24, 2016

June Photo Dump

Wow, June snuck away from me and July is doing the same.  I took a ton of random pictures in the month of June.

Getting a little sassy with our pose.

A day at the park wouldn't be complete without a train ride.


Woo hoo she actually wants to wear her swim suit this year!  




Mommy and me date at Paradise.

We walked to Howard Elementary down the street several times this summer for their free summer lunch program. The kids actually enjoyed it and it was great for Landon to experience prior to starting school this fall.  

Playdate at the park

After we were done playing the kids of course wanted to go see all the geese and ducks.  However, as soon as we got over there they all got out of the water and started following us.  It was actually a little creepy how many and how fast they moved in on us.  We ended up sitting on the ledge out of their way as they continued to quack at us.

A trip to Aurora to spend time with the family.





Then of course a trip to my Aunt's Kitchen for doughnut day!  The funny thing is that morning when we got there she was swamped, so I jumped in and started serving coffee and waiting tables.  Needless to say I earned our breakfast that morning.


I went to a Wildtree meal prep awhile back and loved it, so I decided to do another one with my friends.  Here were everyone's kits.

One afternoon we all got together at Mikki's house and prepped our meals.  
This time around I did the grill set.  I walked away with 12 meals!  


Our first trip to Big Red Treats.  Only my daughter would get just a bowl of m&m's!  


Making mud streams

Paisley, Grace and Jadyn all played t-ball against each other one night.  Landon couldn't wait to go watch.


With my position I'm slowly learning all of these "random" tasks that I'm in charge of.  I found out that it was my job and the principals to go through all of the new inventory.  Needless to say there were boxes upon boxes to go through; it was a little overwhelming but after 4 hours we got it tackled.  


Two days after we had our air conditioner inspected it completely went out.  After the inspection we decided to start looking into estimates to be prepared for the day it did go out, but that Sunday it continued to run and run and run...and blowing warm air.  We weren't quite yet ready for it to happen just yet.  We ended up shutting it off completely and got several estimates around town. Kurtis did have a friend in Albion that gave us a $2000 less estimate than everyone else we asked, so we decided to go with him.  The only bad thing about that was, he was about two weeks out.  :(  So, we did our best to survive some of the hottest days in June. We spend a lot of time at the library, a day trip to Scott's house, a trip to Kearney, spent time at Stolley Park School and luckily the last week it was out I was at curriculum work all week and the kids were at daycare so we just had the nights to deal with. Needless to say I complained A LOT and by day 14 with no air....I was DONE.  

We spent a lot of time in the basement.  We even had a family slumber party down there every night to stay cool.  Landon started calling them underwear parties!  The last couple days were the hardest as our basement was also starting to warm up and it even took a toll on Kurtis.  


Lots of fans!  

Underwear party!  

I was soooo excited to see the new unit put in and the old one ready to go.  We ended up replacing them both as they were both 32 years old and the heater was actually older than the AC. We'll hope we don't have to go through that again anytime soon.  Definitely makes you thankful for what you do have.




Friday, June 17, 2016

Vacation Bible School

Landon was excited to go to Vacation Bible School at Peace Lutheran this summer. Our church isn't having one due to construction, so I'm thankful he was still able to participate in one.  I'm also thankful they posted pictures each day so I could personally see all the fun he was having (and of course pics for the blog)
My past student Aubrey was one of his group leaders.




He was so proud of his face painting!  

Thursday evening they had a family fun night with a concert.  Landon was excited to sing and be part of the God Squad.  We also enjoyed hot dogs, cotton candy and music!  



That evening we got home around 9:30 after delivering thirty-one bags so we decided to stay up and catch fireflies!  It's summer so you can do that!  




Sunday, June 5, 2016

Memorial Day Weekend

We finally made it to a Danger game this year.  It was definitely more work when you have  a little girl who needed to go potty every 15 minutes.  Luckily Landon was able to stay in our seat by himself and Kurtis could watch him from a distance.  Landon of course was excited to go on the field with daddy as usual.  This time he rode around with Kurtis and Bones in the golf cart thingy.


Getting autographs after the game.


At the Happy Brush a week earlier we couldn't decide what to paint so Kurtis and Avery decided to paint a cookie jar for Kurtis' mom as she loves cookie jars.  What a perfect mother's day/birthday gift and she loved it.  

Yummy!



On Memorial Day we kept the tradition going and attended the breakfast and Memorial Day cemetery. 





Grandma's little helper.  He helped water all of her flowers and by golly she has plenty!

That afternoon we headed back home but took a scenic route instead.  As we went through North Platte we thought it would be fun to stop where Kurtis proposed and take some family picutures.


Then of course had to re act out the special moment.  This time we had two crazy kids with us.  Such a fun memory!


We then detoured to Maxwell (drove by my old house) and of course drove through Ft. McPherson to see all the flags.




Then our last stop was Lexington to have supper with my parents and to pick up Wally.

The river is really high.

Couldn't leave without having smores.