Our Gazebo

So for a long long long long long time... probably as long as we've been living here, I've been complaining about our lack of shade. We have two big beautiful trees in our front yard right on the edge of the road, but the rest of my huge lawn is bare. This makes summer unbearable at our house. The kids can't play outside, I can't garden, it's just too hot. So this year Lowell went out and got us a Gazebo for our backyard. And it was beautiful. It took 2 days for the boys to get all the parts together and put it up... and ONE SHORT HOUR, barely forty five minutes, after it was finished, a surprise storm blew through and destroyed it. It stripped out all the screws and snapped off a couple bars so it was totaled :( Eric got a cheap little pop up tent as a replacement, not as pretty but it gets the job done.

The weekend of the fourth

We were planning a trip up to see my cousin get married but at the last minute one of Eric's jobs decided he couldn't have those days off so we ended up staying home. I was bummed out but we had a pretty nice time at home. One of our good friends (Mike) was home on leave from the Army and it was really nice to get to spend time with him and his family, they are my favorite people :) On Thursday Mike went to get some more work done on his tattoos. I tagged along and met his artist. I liked him a lot.

We had dinner with Mike and his friends and family Sunday night before heading out to the farm to watch the fireworks... At the request of the soldier, I have only posted the family friendly photos I took... The other ones aren't actually bad, just him and my husband being funny and since you all know my crazy husband, they would be no shocker here, but still he asked me not to post so I'm just going to print them out for his family instead :)

The fireworks this year were really short and you could tell the town had cut their budget. Logan loved them anyways. He watched for everyone and oohed and awed the whole time. It was really cute.

The next night we had our own fireworks at our house. Again Logan loved it but Berti wasn't a fan of all the noise. She stayed outside with grandpa to watch the fireworks but she kept her ears plugged most of the time.

Not like his Mommy

No my little Lolo is not. Berti has been a fan of temporary tattoos for a long time. And this time when I put a new one on Berti, Lolo kept pointing at his arm so I knew he wanted one too... well he quickly change his mind. He started crying the second I wrapped the stencil around his arm. I thought he would like it once it was on but I was wrong. He immediately went and got a dish towel and started to try and rub it off... I almost died laughing. It was so so funny. Just so you know, Eric did was it off for him... but he waited for me to get some photos and video first :)

French Braids

Look so awesome on me :) Kelsey came down to see us and she taught me how to french braid...I have already forgotten... and I forgot to take any photos of me and Kel... But here is my awesome hair :)

June Jubilee

...was Totally LAME

They must have tried to make it more cost effective or something but it did not work out in their favor. The parade was short, the car show was gone, the tractor pull was smaller too. They still had food vendors but all the people that sold cool junk were gone. And don't even get me started on the bands. I get it, you have a dream, you want to be a star. Well your dream is worthless if you don't have the talent to back it up, and these bands wouldn't know talent if it smacked them in the face... which is what I wanted to do to them. The only thing even remotely interesting was that they brought back the chainsaw artist and he was awesome as always... Also I made a boat load of food for the church sale and then slept right through it and my friends have been laughing at me ever since :) So at least I can say that I was intertaining that weekend.

June Photos

These are just a few randoms from the month of June.