...have been crazy! We've been crazy busy with trips, being outside, and having fun! It is now almost 9.30 and I'm updating, because otherwise it will not get done. That's what I love most about Summer - it's such a chore to even stay inside. I feel like we get enough inside weather the other 6 months out of the year, my June, July, and August are devoted to being outside. I've also been working at the pool from 9.30 AM - 4.00 PM and by the time I get home I usually have something to do or I take the dogs for a walk and make dinner. But anyway, here is a quick update, rewind two weeks back.
Two weeks ago we bought a new boat! It was pretty exciting, even though we've only been out once so far on it. We got a friend of ours old boat and he bought a new boat. We got rid of the pontoon, but now it's nice because it has a closed bow and Josh and I have said that we're going to go out on a Friday night and stay the night on the lake with it. It's also nice because we can go down on a Friday after work and still get in a good four hours of boating, with the pontoon it would take about 45 minutes to get across the lake so we couldn't stay out too late because we had to get back in. We're pretty excited to get some use out of it this summer. There's the boat and then the closed bow section:
Then this past weekend we had a really fun filled weekend! Friday night we went out with our friends Bryce and Jill and what started as just a night to watch the ICubs turned into a whole night of fun! We had pretty good seats at the game, and even got a few good pictures of Ryne Sandberg!
Our seats:
Then we went down to this German resturant called Hessen House and got a few boots and played the boot game. In Germany they often drink beer out of a boot and they have this game where you can't let the boot touch the table, you can't let it splash you in the face, and you have to flick the boot before you pass it before you have to drink again. The four of us went through two "das boots" but it was more than enough! My whole head almost fit into the top of the boot, to give you an idea about how big the boot was and how much beer it could hold! The kicker (no pun intended) was that it could only be filled with German beer...so the first round was pretty decent, but the second boot was so hard to choke down! I wasn't drinking much, just a sip when it was my turn because I was driving home, but it was a lot of fun, we'll definitely be going back!
Bryce finished the first boot:
Then Saturday we got up bright and early (and Josh was definitely cussing the boot!) and headed to Davenport with some friends to visit Josh's brother and go out on the Mississippi River. It was a lot of fun too - it was so much different than a lake and the traffic was unreal! It was neat to see all the really cool houses on the River, and we got to see a tug boat pushing a barge! We really wanted to do the lock thing where you go in and the water flows out so that you can get down the river, but we couldn't figure it out and depending on how long we wanted to wait we could have been waiting for the water to fill up for an hour or so, just depends on where the water level is at. It was neat to see all the different scenery, and it was also nice to get away for a night. This weekend we're going down to the Ozarks with a group of friends for the 4th, the following weekend is Fundays and the weekend after that we're camping all weekend! So we're pretty full for the next few weekends, but that's what makes summer so awesome. :)
And the other night it stormed and then the clouds showed up and were all funky...so here's a neat picture of that:
You'd think with summer break here I'd be really good at updating, but I still suck! All last week I kept thinking, "I should try and update" but it seems like something always came up or I was doing something else! Last week was really my only week off between jobs, tomorrow I start the job for the pool and while it isn't hard work by any means, it is still a job that I have to be at and can't leisurely have the summer off. I asked Tim if I could have Mondays and Fridays off all summer but right now they are short staffed so hopefully once they hire some subs I can get my Mondays and Fridays off - that will be fantastic!
I suppose I owe everyone lots of pictures, so I will make good with that promise and post all the pictures I have from the week. We receieved our fridge last week and here's a before and after:
Our sad old fridge
Our new fun fridge!
It is really nice and I am in heaven being able to get cold ice water whenever I'd like! Definitely worth the money spent! :)
Also last week my flowers started to bloom and they look so pretty! I just happened to buy these random, pretty flowers last year (forgot the name of them) and they didn't stay bloomed for very long and I thought they were just annuals, so to my sweet surprise they came back this year AND they expanded! When I planted them they only had one flower, but now they have about five each!
Yesterday Josh got up early and headed down to Lake Rathbun with the boys to go boating all day so I got to sleep in and then I went garage saleing. I didn't really want anything, but I knew of a couple of friends who were selling their kid's baby clothes and I wanted to get a few things for baby Kayden to wear this winter since it seems I can only find summer stuff right now (and rightfully so). And did I ever! I found a lot of very cute, very nice, very NEW things and couldn't stop! Then I saw this amazing Eddie Bauer bassinet with khaki microfiber for sale and the lady said she only used it once with her new son and now he's outgrown it. So basically brand new for only $120!! I quickly called Jane and she snatched it up and we decided it can be used either at one of our houses, or Andy and Laura could use it whenever they're downstairs working. And on top of that in seven years I can use it for my own kids! So it's definitely going to get some good use :)
Here it is with some of the clothes I bought
All the other stuff I bought!
It was definitely exciting! Lots of stuff for winter/fall in the 3-6 month range so that was nice.
Saturday night was the annual Fireman's Ball. The guys didn't get back until close to midnight, so it was more of a girls night out! Had a lot of fun, especially with all the girls.
I also made a 2009 scrapbook from www.mixbook.com and I cannot wait for it to get here! They have such cute layouts and alls I had to do was drop in the pictures! I'm going to make this a yearly thing, making a book for every year with pictures, and I'm already planning on doing a 1st year baby book for Kayden. I'll have to post pictures of it when it gets here. And that was it this week...so to end this post a cute picture of Tyson trying to get the squeeky hot dog I bought for him :)
