Pool Fun

So it's been awhile since I posted, so here's a trip down memory lane with some of the pictures off my camera...

 

This year we celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary.  It feels like forever since our wedding day.  Jared and Stacie watched the kids while we went out for supper and picked up my wedding ring that was getting fixed (a prong was loose and we got it fixed before I lost a diamond).  It was polished and buffed too...Looked as pretty as our wedding day.  Since then I've worn it all day every day and It still looks nice, just not as shiny:).  After supper we came back to meet Jared, Stacie, and the kids at the park with dilly bars.  Then the boys played some hunting video game.

The big boys swinging

Stacie pushing Jeremiah and Lu Lu in the swings

Me and Josh on our anniversary

 We've been getting the pool out a lot lately.  The kids love playing in the water when it's hot.

Gopher Josh caught digging in the lawn between the house garden and the road

John and Lu with some kohlrabi.  It did great this year

 Painting...We've been painting.  We had hoped to get most of the buildings and fences painted 4th of July weekend, but...We didn't.  We had more fixing to do than painting it seemed.  We've finished the fences, chicken coop and workshop so far.  Josh and Jared just finished putting new siding on the N and S sides of the garage, so that's the next one to paint.  They are looking good so far.

 We were cheap skates on fireworks this year.  Maybe it's because we spent the same amount we usually do on them on the paint.  We watched other peoples in the New Salem on the 3rd and 4th.  The day after the 4th Pete and Monique and their girls came out for supper.  Pete brought some fireworks for the kids.  They loved them.

I'm not sure what the kids are doing here...Wrestling?

 Thanks to Jake and Ruth's inspirations, we had pancakes over the fire last Sunday.  Our mass time in New Salem has been switched to 10:30, so we've been taking advantage of Saturday night mass in Almont.  We love the small church and beautiful drive out there.  We also like having all day on Sunday to play with the kids.

 Jared and Stacie came out for the weekend.

 

Okay.  John's up now and Jerry's talking in his bed.  So I better go.  Jeremiah is walking most of the time now.  It's pretty cute!