Austin turns 11!

 We flipped another calendar page and it is HOT outside!  I'm very thankful for AC in the house to keep us from overheating!  I'm thankful for the sunshine but we need rain!  The grass is so brown and dry.  Please, send us rain Lord!!!!  July has a few fun events in store for us!  Austin turns 11!  We celebrate our nations 250th birthday!  We head to the cabin for a fun weekend!  Sparklers are lit!  Pool days, beach day and days in the garden!  It's summer time so I'm sure there will be lots of moments on the back porch!  Hello July!

We got the banners and flags hung!

Wyatt sent Austin a fishing backpack for his birthday and he is SO excited about it!!!!  Thank you!

We have veggies ready from the garden!

Sunsets here are stunning!

Austin woke up to another fun birthday!  I had the birthday tunes going and he wanted coffee cake for his birthday cake!  With candles all over his piece of cake, he made a wish and blow them out!  Opening up his gift and finding new baseball gloves and a leg guard was exciting for him!

Gunnar FaceTimed to say happy birthday!

We picked up the cousins and they hung out all afternoon!  We grabbed lunch at the Village Cafe and they played squishy ball in the living room!  It was too hot outside to play fast pitch tennis they said.

These boys are Austin's best friends!  I tease Austin all the time that he's growing up too fast and looking back on pictures, I had them all line up to capture their height!  I keep thinking about in five years .... what Will our kids ages be?  How tall will they be?  What will life be like then?  We will have to look back on here in five years to see!

When we took the boys back home, Austin took a quick swim in their pool.  That's been so fun for him!  And then later we met up with them again at the ballpark!  Go Stormers!

And on this hot day, the wheat field got cut down.  I love watching this happen.

And we have ourselves some pretty July blooms!

Happy birthday, Austin!  We love you so much!  I can't wait to see what God has in store for you!!!!

Goodbye June.

June was full of great memories!  So many things are blooming around me!  The weather is warm.  The grass is thirsty but the garden is thriving!  Take a look ...

The hydrangeas are beautiful!

 

The sugar peas did not do well so are happy with what we pick!  

The little cactus has blooms in the garden!

The field of sunflowers and zinnias are starting to grow!

We swung by for some ice cream before going to watch Matthew and Jeremiah play ball against each other.

Austin was under the weather for one day and I sat beside him listening to Adventures and Odyssey and putting this puzzle together.  

The morning walks are beautiful too!

We finally got to the pool for a day and baby dear loved it!

Ashlyn and I both had appointments at Turnpaugh to get blood work done and we are on a journey to better health.  Ashlyn deals with headaches and acne.  I just wanted to check my levels.  We had to fast before our blood work so we got Agape afterwards!

We got results back a few weeks later and now we are on supplements to help our low iron levels.

  

Saturday night, Mike's birthday, we celebrated again with Mommy Lapp treating us all to ice cream from or favorite spot!  Strasburg Creamery has Meadow Tea Sorbet and Ashlyn can have it!  Yum!

Gunnar was our happy shopper at another thrift store!  Mike and I went to celebrate at the LCC for dinner and I love this 49 year old man so much!!!!

Austin wrapped up his first baseball season and the time of his life!!!!

And now he begins softball!  Another sport with the time of his life!!!!

We sent the boys off for a birthday surprise for Austin while us girls found us some gluten free, dairy free, grain free foods!  

Off to Dude Perfect!!!!!

They each loved the event!!!!

And these June skies are paintings of God!!!  I see you God!