Bike Fun

Visiting Family

We headed to Oklahoma to visit my grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins.  Jason had to head to Texas to help with the power outages after the storms, so it was a good time to go before Megan starts school.  We had a great time playing games, doing puzzles, watching TV, riding bikes, and visiting.  The girls got Icee's and candy every single day and just LOVED it.  I think they had enough sugar to last them for the whole month.  

Picking Peaches

We went peach pickin' with our neighbors from across the street.  It was quite hot, but boy, were those peaches good.  I think it's a neat experience for the girls to pick the fruit right from the trees.  They had a great time with their little buddies, Regan and AG.

New Dresses

Here are my sweeties wearing their new dresses this morning all ready for church.  I just thought they looked so cute, I had to post the picture.  

11th Anniversary

Jason and I are celebrating our 11th anniversary today!  We've had many trials and many joys.  I'm just so blessed to share my life with him and we're more in love now than we were 11 years ago.  

We decided it would be fun to go to the lake for a full day of adventure.  It ended up reaching 105 degrees today, so unless you were in the water, you were miserable.  So there went my ideas of playing ball and building sand castles and hanging out all day at the lake.  And the water was hot, dirty, and full of other people.  So, after driving an hour to get there, we left after 45 minutes.  As we were ushering the girls toward the shore, I stepped into some muck in the lake and literally sunk about 8 inches.  I was totally grossed out.  :)  I just couldn't get home quick enough to shower.  The funny thing is when we were driving away, Anna said, "That was sooo fun.  I want to go there again and again and again."  Jason and I just grinned at each other.  

Then all four of us headed to McAllister's for a great anniversary dinner.  All in all it was a fun day.  

New Table

Well, after four weeks of an empty kitchen, we finally bought a new table at Sam's.  Never mind that it's still in the back of the van waiting to be unloaded and assembled...I'm just glad we have one! 

Jumping!

It's too incredibly hot to do anything outside unless you do it early in the morning or late in the evening.  And I don't really know anyone here other than neighbors to get out and do anything with.  So we've been sitting in the house all day entertaining ourselves.  I've started getting restless (probably more than the girls) and found something in a magazine that looked like fun.  It's a jump zone place with all the blow-up toys, slides, etc. here in Benton.  We went yesterday and had a blast!  The girls played for almost 2 hours straight.  They were completely worn out when we left.  After watching them for about 20 minutes, I couldn't stand it any longer.  I had to join them.  I had a blast too, but I'm sore today--is this yet another sign that I'm getting older?  Remember the good old days when we could play all day and not worry about the after effects?  :)  

Anyway, it was nice finding something fun to do here other than grocery shop or cruise the aisles at Target.