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Well, look at that–it’s already been 5 days since I last posted… sheesh!  The summer sure does sneak by!

For the sake of interest and time (and because I’m a list-loving-geek!) I’m going to recap using bullets!  Yup.

• So, here we go…
• Bullets are awesome.
• The kids and I got to see Nathan & Amy last week when they came through town.  It was fantastic!
• The Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert was AWESOME.
• We had nice seats–with a good view of the sign language interpreters.
• I found myself watching the interpreters more than the choir.  Seriously, they’re fun to watch.
• The best song of the night was a organ solo arrangement of “I Got Rhythm.”
• We’ve had a lot of nasty storms roll through in the past week.  Nothing too terrible in Shakopee, but other places have really been hit hard.
• We’ve started watching a new “family” movie each week.  Chloe LOVES it.  (Okay, okay, even though they are kid movies, I admit, I like it too… )
• No showings for a week now.  That’s so strange.
• Josiah is in a very independent stage right now and want to do everything in his way in his time.  Watch out if you cross him.
• Speaking of Josiah, he climbed out of his crib yesterday for the first time.  He fell pretty hard–I’m hoping that scares him enough not to try it again.
• We’re going to Como zoo on Friday with all the Friesen cousins (and their prospective adults.. heh!)
• Things have been going great with Tim and his work (and all the new guys working for him).
• I tried to fix Tim’s grill as a Father’s Day gift and I ended up breaking it instead… oops!  Don’t worry, though, I was able to re-fix it.  🙂
• I have a new favorite cracker:  Blue Diamond Almond Nut Thins.  Yummmmmm.
• I’ve started walking with a gal from church. It’s great.  We walk and get exercise, while pushing our little ones, while Chloe rides her bike, and we all get to be outside getting some sun.  Win, win, win!
• I really need to carry my camera with me tomorrow to get some pictures…

Well, it’s official–I have my first bad sunburn.  🙂  But it’s really not all bad, because it means the sun is actually out, right!?  The kids have been able to play in the sprinkler a handful of times now and Chloe is enjoying it so much more now that Josiah can run around playing with her.

In other news, we’re going to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert at the Target Center tonight.  It was a Christmas gift from the Greenhalgh’s.  I remember opening the tickets at Christmas and thinking it was SOOOO long until June 20th… hehe!  I’m very excited to go, since I’ve heard really good reviews on the choir.  Plus it’s just plain fun to get to go to a concert!

Today is my parents anniversary: 37 years! ( I hope I did the math right… 😉 )

Photo Credit: Kylene 🙂

Mom & Dad, I love you both so much and I wish you a wonderful day!

I found this the other day and it made me chuckle–then when I was talking with Kylene the topic of sewing came up and it made me think of this again…. Oh, how the times have changed, eh?  😉

Here are the after pictures of the stucco.  We think we’ll need to smear some dirt on the new parts to make them a little less white, but overall we’re SO pleased at how it turned out.  All the cracks over the entire house have been repaired.  Yippie!

And these are Aggie’s tulips next door. They’re so pretty, I just had to take a picture….

Look!  The stucco on our house is being repaired today!

I’ll have to take an “after picture” too, but here’s the work in progress…

Today we sat down for lunch and everything was peachy.  We were eating our food and Josiah, who has now graduated to sitting at the table with us in his booster chair, was just about ready to finish up (he eats way faster then the rest of us) when there was a knock at the door.

It was a lady from down the street returning my serving platters that I had sent along for a music teachers’ meeting this morning (we decided not to go since I didn’t have a sitter for the kids).  Anyway, I forgot what a talker this lady is… she’s very sweet and has interesting things to say, but she’s very chatty.  I could hear the kids inside giggling and yelling at Dende, and then Chloe finished and came out to see what I was doing.  I kept sending her back into check on Josiah, who by now was LONG done with his food and getting antsy.  It must have been a good 10-15 min…  I was trying to politely say I needed to go, but it wasn’t going well.

Suddenly Chloe ran up to me yelling, “Josiah’s standing on the table!”

I quickly and abruptly ended our conversation and ran inside.

Yup.  There he was standing happily in the middle of the table playing with the hanging light.  He looked at me as I came bounding into the dining room and gave me a beaming smile, showing how proud he was of himself.

I resisted the urge to smile and take a picture (I don’t want to encourage this!) but it was pretty cute.  I mean other than the fact that it was dangerous and wrong.  Other than that, it was cute.

And it made me smile.  After I got him down and turned away from him so he couldn’t see… 😉

I got to see Shannon yesterday!  It’s been a really long time since we’ve been able to hang out and see each other, so it was a fantastic visit.  However, it was cut short by having to come home early and take Josiah to the minute clinic (apparently he has a double ear infection)… but our time together was WONDERFUL!

Spending time with Shannon makes me smile. 🙂

Again, I know this wasn’t from today (but I had a bunch of fun pictures I found on the camera!) but this made me smile.  On Sunday we had the Bakers over for their piano lessons and the two young girls ended up watching a movie together on the couch…

And, THAT’S what made me smile on Sunday.

I mean, really, how could you NOT smile?  Even the koolaid mustache on Chloe makes me smile a little… 😉