Some pictures of Summer

Finally, some pictures for you! I'll be posting a "real" post sometime soon. :)

Me working on my adirondack chair for 4-H

The jungle gym outside at the City Museum. that is the roof of a building ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jenna & Tess in the caves at the City Museum
Adam & Johnny

My golfing team at cousins night

Luke & Ernie

HYDE -21!

I know, I know... birthday posts are probably getting a little boring and old. But, since Heidi's my sister I have to do a post for her. Her birthday was July 22nd... I'm just about a month behind. :)
But.. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, HYDE!

A post dedicated to Luke

Because I didn't post a birthday picture for Luke, and it's been a long while since his birthday... here's a whole post dedicated to you, Luke!
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! :)

4-H Fair Week

This past week was the 4-H fair. It was ok... not as fun as some years, but definetly still fun.
The heat was just marvelous. :P

I took:
Woodworking I - I made an adirondack chair-- I got a blue/A.
Yeast Breads - I made dinner rolls -- I got a blue/A
Photography II - I took pics of animals at the Phoenix zoo -- I got a blue/A
Scrapbooking - Lindsay helped me --- I got a blue/A AND a superior/purple

Since Linds was the one who helped me on my Scrapbooking, I think she was more excited than me that I got a purple! :) As always, the food there is junk food, but still as tasty as ever! :)
Tuesday night we got rained/stormed out. They told everyone to leave... and everyone left at the same time and it was crazy with all the traffic!

Although I look forward to the fair, I'm so glad it's done.... now I don't have to worry about working on my projects! There is some girls in our county, and between the 3 of them, they took 78 projects!.... and they win everything too. Gets kind of annoying, really.

Well... that's all I have to say. I felt like updating, but I didn't really know what to say. :)

Have a good weekend!

St. Louis

Saturday the Bible Class took a bus up to Saint Louis and went to the City Museum and Union Station. It was a lot of fun and I'm soo glad I went. The trip there and back was fun, but I LOVED the City Museum!! They have a 3 story jungle gym, and bunch of other stuff too, but mostly what I did was go in the caves. It was pitch black in most of them and you could hardley fit thru the tunnels half the time. There were 3 story slides, a skateless skatepark, and too many other things to list. There's a lot inside, but there's also some outside. I'll have to post pictures so you can see. :) All the stuff is made out of 100% recylced material, and it's so artistic lookin'. I would go back in a heartbeat! (Jenna & I decided we should go there with all the Schicks and take a bus down, too. )

We went to Union Station for a while after the museum, which was neat, but not near as fun. We headed back pretty early and stopped at Monicals in Springfield for supper.

Hopefully, I'll post pictures of it one of these days...(I know, I know... I always say that!)

Update on Grandma

Most of you who read my blog, you're family, so you probably know about what's up with Grandma... but just in case someone else reads this, this is what is new:

Wow, a lot has happened since then. She had surgery for her stomach cancer on Monday the 23rd of June to remove part of her stomach and some lymph nodes. They ended up having to take out more of her stomach than was planned. They also had to take out her spleen and quite a bit of tissue from her abdominal cavity. (haha, sorry Heidi) Besides a lot of pain at first, she was doing fairly well. But the next Sunday she got pneumonia and a staff & strep infection in her blood. She was really not doing well for a while, and everything was just kinda up and down for a couple weeks, but has just now started to really pop back. She was in ICU for 3 weeks, and finally got to move out just this past Tuesday. She was able to eat a little yesterday without getting sick like before. Hopefully she will get to go home in a couple weeks. I'm sure she'd still appreciate your prayers.

But things were kind of crazy around here, and are finally calming down a little. I haven't been the "mom" as much lately as I was at first. But a BIG THANK YOU to whoever reads this, and brought us food. It helped us out tremendously! And I didn't have to cook!! :)

New Look

So, I'm experiementing with new backgrounds. I found a new amazing sight with free templetes!
Check it out: pyzam.com


Or maybe all of you already knew about it.

Anywho, don't be surprised if my background gets changed frequently... I'm lookin' for one I really like. :)




Just so some of you know.. I'm not done with June Birthday's yet!
I didn't have pictures of some of the ppl at the moment, so they will be posted in a few days
Thank you for your cooperation..
;)

Wisconsin Pictures!

I finally got around to this! They're in the opposite order.. and I did this in a hurry, so no fancy post. Have a good day!


Adam got a dessert at the resturant for his birthday

Frying the fish

My Dad w/his siblings

Our cute little cabin

The boys getting ready to go fishing (lovely, Luke!)

I find this picture hilarious
Playing Instruments around the fire
Adam's somewhat big fish
Me & Aunt Sandy