BUSY, BUSY, BUSY, summer!!

We have been keeping very busy this summer!  Trying to keep up with our garden which has been great until the last few week with 100 degree temps and no rain, it has been hard.  The squash bug have gotten pretty much everything but the tomatoes so far.  We had great zucchini with 15 plants early on, then the bugs came and destroyed all of them in about a weeks time!

Mom has been diagnosed with breast cancer so have been trying to help her out as much as we can.  She is doing really well and hasn't been feeling too bad.  The worst part for her has been loosing her hair.  Tomorrow she will have her third treatment and only 3 more to go.  Then she will have radiation.

The kids have done 3 bible schools this year!!  They have enjoyed everyone of them and it has really given us something to do this summer.

They are also doing swimming lessons twice a week for 6 weeks.  It is a lot of running but we think it is very important that they learn how to swim!  And they are doing a great job and so are the instructors at Lifestrokes.

This past weekend we spent it in Omaha with Bruce's family celebrating Bob's 60th birthday swimming at the hotel then spending the day at the zoo.  Even though it was 100 degrees it really didn't feel that hot and there were no major melt downs either!  :)

Today is catch up day.  On the agenda is picking all tomatoes that are ready so I can can them, laundry (there is so much that could take days), paying bills, trying to water the garden and yard so we don't lose both of them, and hanging out as a family.  Should be great!

Better get started.......

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Summer fun...in April

I don't remember a time when we could hunt Easter eggs in tank tops.  Or go swimming on April 1st, outside on our patio, in Nebraska.  We have just successfully done all of those things and also mowed the lawn twice!!

The kids so far have been to 3 Easter egg hunts and will have one more at grandma's on Sunday.   It is so much fun to watch them have fun and just do things as a family.  Mia even won the "big" prize at the nursing home egg hunt in Firth!  And no she wasn't racing against the residents! :)

Everything is starting to bloom and bud.  The tulips were beautiful, but the wind has now destroyed them.  That's what happens out here "on the farm".  I am getting the urge to plant flowers and the garden.  Not may stores have their flowers out yet, so I guess I will be waiting on that..

I am hoping to do a better job at keeping up with the blogging and to get everything from the memorable to the everyday written down so one day we can look back and remember our life in a small town.