Sunday afternoon

Sunday afternoons are a wonderful time to spend with friends or family. 

We spent it with friends and enjoyed a cook out and a walk to see a eagles nest. We had fun spending a lovely Sunday afternoon together. 

On our walk 

The baby eagle waiting for its food

Lucas pushes Conner, really!

They played some oldies music, danced and played swords.

Then right before we left watched a Disney short film 

Kristin & I  :)

Also I made Strawberry and Raspberry jam this summer!!

Beautiful day at the lake and then ending it with a STORM!

      Beautiful day at the lake and fun trying to catch fish, but it must be too hot for them. We only caught little ones. We found a little island to hang out at and had lots of fun swimming and finding cool rocks. Sadie even started to swim with us, so fun. 

  Then when we got back home we saw some storm clouds and  about an hour later the sirens went off. I had our neighbors tell us there have been some bad storms in this area, so I was kinda scared, but it wasn't bad at all. Thank God!

Someone famous lives here.... I'm gonna leave it at that.

Our little island

Storm clouds!!

Trapped in the storm

I went to a couple garage sales Friday and found this well taken care of Monopoly game. I had everyone play it and Conner loves it, Carter and daddy didn't like it so much. So Conner and I have played it a couple times since then. 

Josh found this cool three stripped something? Conner loved it, but its so fast he got away after a couple of hours. 

Our little buddy in the backyard!

Agate fest and the fair

I found Josh a beater! Its a 2001 Honda civic, so we took it for a road trip this weekend and it ran great.

                                                              AGATE FEST

                               I finally know what to do with all the agates the boys find.

  This is what Agate fest is all about, yep its quite crazy just to find agates. Not my favorite thing to do, but the boys wanted me to come with. 

            They had fun, Carter found some keepers.

        My pictures at the fair. I got 1st place on this one, I was hoping I would. Conner and I worked hard to get these pics.

                         Birds- 3rd place

                                         People- 3rd place

                       5*7 landscape- 3rd place

                              Beautiful horse

                  Grandpa and Conner petting a cow

             Isn't this sweet, I had to get a picture of this.

           Rides!!

On the Tilt o whirl 

                Carter and I on the ferris wheel, scary!

                   Conner told me he wants pigs, goats and chickens after fair this year.

I also saw my Kindergarten teacher at the fair, so fun!

               Our bunny got 1ST PLACE! We had to wait 5 hours to show her. The judge got lost ( from Mn), the boys got really restless, but we waited and showed our bunny. The judge said she is healthy, he checked her teeth, nails and coat. Such a fun experience, just hopefully next year we won't have to wait that long.

Garden update!

Lots of Zucchini, green beans, sugar snap peas. So exciting to go pick from the garden everyday. Its fun to say, you guys want a snack? Ok, lets go in the garden, lol. :)

Rasberry picking and the beach on a cold day....

 I would much rather go pick food then buy it at a store, I just love to do that. We went raspberry picking in a very " out in the boonies" location and it was so fun. We went with my friend and her son, the boys helped picking and then gave the buckets to us and went exploring and playing while us moms talked and picked berries. Simple things like that are hard to come by these days and I like the simple things once in awhile.
On the way there we saw two old churches on a dirt road. I told the boys to imagine back in the day walking or riding on buggy to those churches from your home on Sunday morning. Then maybe after they would go berry picking and bake pies. I always like to think of the olden days and how simple and fun they were.

After berry picking we were brave and went to the beach (60 degrees out), but we were so close to the beach we had to stop and thankfully it warmed up after we got there. My friend and I were the only moms in the lake. It really wasn't that bad and the kids had lots of fun.

 Isn't this rainbow beautiful! There is two rainbows actually, so neat. I find it interesting that this happened the day after we watched Noah's ark, so the boys knew what the rainbow meant.
God is faithful!!