My Crazy Life as a Farmers Wife

Images from Summer

Here are some photos from this summer that I never got around to posting...

Tawsha Visits

My sister, Tawsha, and her girls came to visit us for a few days in June. It was beautiful weather, and we had so much fun spending time together. We visited great grandma Russell's house and found out that she was irrigating her yard that day. They kids didn't bring any swimsuits, but that didn't stop them...

as always, grandma gave them all ice cream. Their teeth were chattering because they were already wet, but that didn't seem to stop them from eating their ice cream cones...

and leave it to Kate...my silly child...to pull faces...

here are a few photos of grandma's garden...even at her age, it is still beautiful and weedless...she has always been my gardening inspiration (well, she and Lisa)...

Russ climbed the basketball hoop like he always does...you should see him scale up and down that thing!

We also visited great grandma Hudman's house. The kids played some music for her and the little girls danced around...

and then we went to the park for a picnic...

as if the day wasn't already filled with enough fun, we went back home to my house for some slip and sliding on our hill...

Lindsey's Birthday

For my cute niece, Lindsey's 14th birthday, the kids spent the day together slip and sliding. It was still a tough time for our family. Lisa's passing was still heavy on our minds, and the comfort of family made us all feel better...

we decided to host a BBQ at our house so that we could all spend some more time together, and since it was Lindsey's birthday, it turned into a birthday BBQ.

For her birthday, Lindsey had big plans to have her cousins over for a sleepover. With Ashley's prompting, they decided that it was the perfect night for a prank. Lisa was always a prankster, so in her memory, Ashley thought they should toilet paper aunt Kaylynn. When Ashley was younger, she wanted to going TPing, so her mom took her to Kaylynn's house. Ashley didn't know that Lisa had called Kaylynn and forewarned her, so Kaylynn came out and scared Ashley. Ashley thought her younger cousins needed the same lesson. They were all so excited to go TP aunt Kaylynn's house. They dressed in black and practiced being stealth. My husband is good friends with our local sheriff, and just happened to know that he was getting off shift at about the same time the girls were planning on TPing Kaylynn's house. Needless to say, they got the scare of their life when the sheriff pulled up with lights and sirens on. The girls scattered...I hear that Grace even started to cry. They soon found it was all just a joke...but I don't think any of them will ever forget it. I think Lisa was probably laughing from heaven watching these girls :)