Summer

Boy it was HOT outside yesterday!  I love the heat but this weather is a bit much for even me.  So the kids and I (and the dogs) took refuge inside with the air conditioning for the better part of yesterday.  That gave me a little extra time to blog while the kids rearranged our living room furniture to make forts.  I'm not kidding, that actually happened. 

Since my last post Cash has finished up his tee ball season.  That boy is totally in his element when he's outside.  The activity doesn't matter much, he's just a happy kid when he's outside.  Cash is left handed so he throws and bats left handed. 

Cash went to Vacation Bible School at our church again this year.  He had a lot of fun and met a lot of new friends.  There were 162 kids in VBS at our church this year! That's Cash's little face in the very middle of the front row.  Silly goose.

The last weekend of June we went to Klamath to visit Nana and Papa.  We hadn't visited since Thanksgiving because I'm not big on taking the kids on road trips.  They're getting older now though and both of them behaved so well for the 4 hour drive.  While we were there we played at my old elementary school and relaxed in Nana and Papa's backyard oasis.  Their yard will make any other gardeners look like slackers.  It's amazing.

4th of July is always pretty low key for us since Josh is in the middle of harvesting.  We made s'mores at home using these cool fishing pole marshmallow roasters that I got Josh for Father's Day.  Then we set off some fireworks in the driveway.  We also took the kids to see the Corvallis fireworks for the first time.  I'm a stickler about bedtime and hadn't been willing to take them in previous years.  There are perks with being past the baby stage though.  We have a little more freedom to do things like this.