I love when the kids help with puzzles! This one was two-sided!
Hopefully this will be erased from my family members' minds (insert head slap). I saw that there was a hot air balloon festival an hour away. Since we didn't have any plans, I thought it'd be fun to go check it out since the kids had never been in one before. They also do a night glow after dark which I thought would be fun to see and didn't mind if the kids were up a bit later since it's summer time! Well...we got there and didn't see the field full of hot air balloons like I'd seen on their facebook page. Apparently it was too windy so a lot of them didn't even lay out their hot air balloons. The one that we did see inflated had a really long line that ended up closing shortly after we arrived. I kept asking around to see if they were still going to do the night glow but no one could give me a guarantee. We hung out playing games and eating fair food while still sporadically asking about the night glow. We got optimistic when we saw more balloons being laid out and even walked up to one who said that they were planning on doing it. About 30 minutes later the field was emptying out so we decided to throw in the towel and head home. I saw on their facebook page later that they'd cancelled it due to an approaching storm. There was no announcement made there that we heard. Soooo....we drove an hour there and back to have fair food for dinner. Ugh!
Our favorite game these days is called Incohearent Family. You have to read off of a card like this, then translate into what the real phrase is. We get quite a hoot out of it!
Here's what the kids sounded like guessing based on the word card above:
Here's what it was like to read the silly phrases.
We enjoyed getting together with Hannah and Hunter when we could!
Owen will bike with me....if it involves ice cream!
This poor little deer wandered through our side gate and got lost in the backyard! That's never happened before!
We enjoyed getting together with Aubrey at Linda's pool!
They replaced one of our favorite wooden playgrounds where we often meet Hannah and Hunter. We enjoyed checking out the new, improved version!
Our friends have access to box seats at the minor league baseball team's games. They were gracious to share tickets for a fireworks game with us. Unfortunately it was rain delayed an hour but while everyone else was hiding under the stadium, we had box seats that were covered!
And a beautiful double rainbow after the rain!
This guy sure was entertaining to watch!
The fireworks were extra late due to the rain delay...poor neighbors!!
This may be my favorite picture of Willow these days :) I took the kids and a couple friends to the trampoline park to beat the heat!
My school got an awesome new book vending machine and Willow helped me fill it so it'd be ready for when the students arrive. I wish they had one at their schools too!
Willow has been asking about getting more makeup (high school....sigh...) so I took her to the Clinique counter at the mall to learn from someone who knows what they're doing ;)
A beautiful, home-grown bouquet!
The treehouse doesn't get used much these days, so when Chris noticed the upper level start to pull apart from the tree, he took it down instead of adjusting it. Sniff sniff...
