Well I thought June was trying to kill me. BUT IT DIDN'T!!!!

HA June I survived you'll have to try harder next time!

Well the kids went to camp this week. Makayla finished up volleyball and basketball. And I am actually getting ahead on my school work.

So I dare July to even try anything funny!

I haven't had time to upload any pictures so I'll leave you with a picture I took a year or two ago. I love barns. I'm not sure why but old barns are so beautiful. Maybe it's because they are so functional. They are reminders of our past. I don't know but I LOVE taking pictures of them. I've never seen a round barn before. This one is south of town on a century farm, which means this farms has been in the same family for more than 100 years. 100 years of the same family living in the same house on the same land. Isn't that amazing?

I am pretty sure that June is trying to kill me! Jordan did get to play 2 more games at the ball park. 200 people showed up one evening to get 2 of the fields playable.
Hannah just has one more make up game on Monday and she is done too. It's bitter sweet. I wish I didn't have so much going on so I could just go out there and enjoy the game. But I'll also be glad to not be at a ball game every night of the week.
Makayla has one more volleyball game in her Monday night league this Monday and she is done also.
Hannah had volleyball camp this week. She missed one day because she was sick. But she had a great time!
Makayla has basketball team camp this next week. She isn't really looking forward to that. Oh goody I'm sure I'll get to drag her out of bed everyday.
Hannah, Jordan and Leland will be at church camp part of this next week too.
Our June has been pack with activities. I'm looking forward to July coming and things slowing down!
I'm still plugging along with school. I'm not really liking this summer school gig!

We got a little rain today! It washed Jordan's ball field away.

:(

The season may be over. Bummer!

Boo Hoo

I'm a huge whine bag!

I was driving down the road yesterday feeling sorry for myself and VERY overwhelmed. I seem to feel this way too often. Usually I can kick my own butt or at least call Susan who is always good for some butt kicking. But yesterday I was just enjoying myself. I was doing some deep down wallering (sp?) in my problems.

Now if you have not figured out by now I am fascinated with clouds. I have a whole folder on my computer with cloud pictures. I'm not sure how I have not killed myself staring at these thing as I drive down the street.

Yesterday I looked up from my pity party and this is what I saw up ahead. See the light shining down from the clouds. (It was MUCH brigther in person.) The light was shinning right on the road. On one side of the road there were sunny skies, on the other a tornado had just touched down.

And all I could think about was "This is how God must speak to people like me". I'm pretty sure He was saying "Hey what am I? Why aren't you talking to me about this? Hey you, I'm here! Let me help. Why are you so stubborn? Why on earth do you enjoy complaining so much." Well when you hear God say things like that you can straighted yourself up pretty quickly. I had to stop and grab some pictures before God got quite again. So I pulled over and grabbed the camera. As soon as I put the lens cap on I looked up and the hole in the clouds was gone. Weird huh?

So I'm going to do my best to let go of the overwhelmed feeling. I'll just do what I can do for the day. I'll not fret about the to do list.

And I'll keep looking up for the answers!

Sad day! I'm know I'm weird for taking pictures of this but it has been REALLY bothering me that I knew the day was coming. I would think about it at night when I couldn't sleep. I have been fretting about it....

My transportation turned 100,000 today! Stupid thing to fret huh? We are now without warranty. So who knows what will happen now.

I even took before and after pictures. I told you it was a little twisted!

But then I stopped. I was afraid of what you all would think of me if I stopped every mile to take a picture of my odometer. And yes dad I did stop to take the pictures. Please notice the speedometer.

Leland said that I needs to update this thing. I agree!

Things are a little busy right now. It seems like I say that in every post. Some day I'm going to run away with a stack of books and find me a beach to lay on. Until then....

The kids are out of school. You would think that would mean we are just hanging out but that is not the case. Makayla has church camp this week. I told her to ignore the boys and get this attitude thing worked on. Think she'll listen to me? I doubt it too. She also started volleyball again last Friday. They will play on Monday nights in June. She is also in a basketball league on Tuesday nights. She is not quit as happy about that idea. Until she figures out what she wants to do she will still need to stay active in basketball.

Hannah has basketball camp in the mornings this week. And between Jordan and Hannah we have a ball game every night this week.

Jordan is the only one vegging out this week. Other than ball games he is free.

My classes started Monday. So I am eyeball deep in homework. I'm trying to stay ahead of the game.

Summer is going to whiz by.

I have not been doing a very good job of taking pictures lately. I'm going to fix that this week.

I do have pictures of the last day of school, except Hannah and they are on the camera card that went to camp with Makayla. Should have looked at that before I sent it with her.

I hope you are having a great summer. I will try and do better with keeping up with the blog.

Later!