We have had several celebrations here lately that have kept us pretty busy and just good times.
We celebrated Memorial Day and cooked out with Dakota and the girls.
We took a day and went to the movies. The girls love Spirit and we were waiting on it to come out. It was a day well spent.
I bought a few more preschool things for the girls. One is a pre-made activity binder and it was well worth $20. They love it. The pieces are already velcroed and very well put together. I bought a tracing book for Caroline. It starts out big letters and numbers then it reduces in size once they learn how to make the letters. You can finger trace too. I got Atleigh a new activity book. I will be taking out the pages and putting them into sheet protectors so they can use dry erase markers and reuse them.
They love activity binders. I have also been checking into busy binders. Goodness, I've got to stay off of Pinterest and YouTube.
They have been helping me in the house a little to earn some more spending money in their lock box. We are going to take then on a little overnight road trip. It us going to be a test trip to see how well they do before we start making some longer road trips. 🙃
We are not going to grow a garden thus year but we did manage to get just a few cherry tomato plants and mini pepper plants for them to eat off of. They love to dip them in ranch dressing. They helped me plant them one day and Atleigh worked so hard stretching the water hose to the garden to water them. A cracked hose makes a good splash pad too.
Dear hubby and Dallas went to my momma and daddys house one day to help them cut off and cut up a huge limb that broke off into their yard. If you will notice in one picture there is a snake hanging down from one limb. There wound up being two snakes in that tree limb after cutting it up. Cotton mouths. No telling how many times they have walked under that tree.
They loaded up the Ranger and worked one day on it. Bless them. He has always taken care of my parents.
We had Graduate Recognition 🎓 one Sunday at church. Dallas received a military Bible from our church.
We had a death in our family also. It was one of my Uncles. My momma is the youngest of three children. She has two older brothers. He was a retired Paramedic. He was proceeded in death by his wife to which they were a Paramedic team. They drove an ambulance together same shift and hours.
This is my momma and their other brother, his only daughter, and me and my sisters.
Me and my Momma are going to make a trip back to the gravesite and decorate my grandparents graves. We got to spend some time with them while they were here. They stayed with my momma and daddy and that was very good for my Uncle. There is a big age gap between me and this cousin but we have so much in common. She was the one who inspired me to homeschool our boys when they were little.
June 14th is National Flag Day and every year we try to replace our old torn flags due to weather and put up fresh ones. We dispose of the torn ones properly. If you don't know how to do this, you need to research. An old flag should never just be thrown in the trash. Look it up. We fly our American Flag and Marine Corp Flag with pride. We also taught the girls a little lesson about the Flag that morning. Semper Fi from our house to yours on National Flag Day. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Nothing to see here but a couple of unicorns brushing their teeth and making faces. 😬 . Because we can. We were getting ready for the day because it was Atleighs bday. Yep, unicorns. Me and Poppie had our own party for her because she was not having a party until 5 days later and she did not understand that it was her bday and we weren't doing anything. So bring on the party. The one thing that she was the most excited about was that we baked her cake together and decorated it together. That's all she talked about all day.
She is such an appreciative little girl. 😍
Then that Saturday we had her bday party her mommy and daddy were planning.
Then we celebrated Father's Day.
The next day we went to see my momma and daddy for Father's Day.
Fresh cut flowers from my flower beds
Ma Kettle, what's for supper?
Well, chilren, it's chicken parmesan with fresh mozzarella and bruschetta, that's what. 👌
We are just spending this summer trying to get caught up on some things around the farm.
We still do not know of Dallas' ship out date yet, but we are just spending as much time with him as possible. Alot has changed in the past 30 yrs since Dear hubby enlisted and went to bootcamp. Now they don't let them come home for 10 day leave after graduation. They go straight to MCT school. This will be completely different. I think he's getting a little antsy. He is hung between wanting to go and wanting to stay. We will see.
I hope everyone has a blessed day. Maybe I can slow down a little or at least remember to blog. 🤦♀️
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