This and that, summer fun.

Joel finished his last game of baseball for the year. Funny thing, the other team didn't show up. There was a rain-delay so perhaps some miscommunication occurred. However this allowed the older siblings to play too. Matthew still has the scar from a sliding into base incident. Joel really loves baseball and continues to make practice swings with his pretend bat. (I think Carolyn has a book under her shirt...how very Carolyn of her. She is denying it though....but almost always takes a book with her where ever she goes.)


We went to Yankee Doodle Pops again this year to celebrate The 4th of July a bit early with classical music and the best fireworks I have ever seen. The people on the left are college friends who live in west Des Moines. Unfortunately the last time I saw them was one year ago at....you guessed it.... Yankee Doodle Pops. We are getting together for a back to school BBQ this year and hope to see them at a Hawkeye game. (Last year the girls stayed home...in my case because Ken's mom just had knee surgery and I didn't really want the kids with a sitter while we were that far away.)


Board games are NOT boring around here. This game was the best $.99 I have spent all year.

We enjoyed going to Family Night at Mitigwa.