Today, we did an excursion with Vallarta Adventures. We did the Extreme Adventure with zip-lines, ATVs, and a water slide. It was so much fun! An experience, we will never forget!!
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Day 136: Mailbox Planting (10/5)
The first item that we bought especially for the house was two mums to put into the plant holders on each side of the mailbox.
It's so exciting to start worrying about things like lawn care!! The little things in life make me smile!
Day 120: My Mom Comes Home (9/19)
Today, my mom came home from her two week trip with Grandma Schluge. After Grandpa passed away, my grandma wanted to get away for awhile and Mom went with her. They went North to Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
One of my uncles have a place in Paradise, Michigan. Mom said that it was beautiful (with a name like Paradise, I am sure they have some high standards!) They travel to the shore of the Michigan lake and collect some beautiful stones.
My mom is forever collecting stones. She is so crafty that she is able to make the most boringest (is that a word?) look the most interestingest (again is that a word?) with a few stones or items she has collected.
It's nice to have her home again.
Day 62: Float Trip (7/23)
Oh man, has it been a busy weekend!
It started out on Friday morning at 5:45 AM! We left for the Illinois River for a float trip. We only decieded to float 6 miles because we didn't want tit to be a full day of floating. I mean you can only float for so long before it just gets boring!
It was fun! I haven't done floated since Rennie and I have married and I missed it! It's so much fun and the river was high so we didn't have to get out of the raft often to drag it across the rocks.
Even though we only floated 6 miles we were still exhausted but its a great way to spend the day.
Then from there I had a job interview (keep your fingers crossed) and then to Enid to play some softball!!
Day 39: Summer Nights (6/30)
I love that at 8:46 PM (that's a fact, because I checked the exact time when I took the picture) the sun still hasn't set. This is my favorite thing about summer.
During the winter, I hate getting out of school and having two hours before it's pitch black outside.
Granted it is harder to lay down Gavin for the night but I would not trade the effort for the extra hours of sunlight.
I also wanted to include a few pictures of my parents yard:
They both work so hard on the yard. I never realized how much work goes into maintaining a home, maybe because I've never owned a home. They are outside every day working on something. It's amazing how wonderful the yard looks and how much they have to work at it.
I love the Babinec stone. I hope that one day, we can own a home and have a Nickell rock outside our home. The flowers bloom all summer making the yard that much more beautiful. The pond is something my mom has been wanting and working on for years. She loves the pond, I love the natural rock surrounding the area.
One day, my yard is going to be just as wonderful.
Day 27: To be at a Crossroads (6/18)
Ever wonder where the term "at a crossroad" really means? Well today I did, so I looked it up and here is what my old friend Wikipedia told me.
As a metaphor, "to be at a crossroads" refers to any turning point with an unpredictable outcome (the literal meaning of crisis). Crossroads is also a frequent toponym, given to a hamlet located at such a junction.
It's funny I always thought that if you were at a crossroads you had some decides to make and that you knew all the options. Abruptly my family came to a crossroads. We are at a turning point in our lives that has an unpredictable outcome, meaning we have no clue where we will be at the end of the summer. It seems our working life has all come down to this one week, and I have no control on the outcome.
I have come to find out that I am not so comfortable being at a crossroad. I like to know what's going to happen in two months, two weeks, hell even two days.
When we first got married, I thought I was comfortable being at a crossroad and I probably was! However, as the years pass and Gavin gets older, I like the idea of settling down and knowing where I am going to be in three years.
So in honor of my family's crossroads, I took a few pictures of the railroad tracks behind our house. I love hearing the train come through during the day and sometimes at night, but I hate being stuck at the crossing when it comes through.
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