Uh Oh!

Jack found my makeup. Since he watches me get ready every morning, he knew exactly where lipstick goes! And like all good parents, we know you take the picture first and then deal with him! His face was tinted Cinnamon for a while! I love that he got the teeth, too! EEWWW!

House for Sale! and other jottings...

Not much to report except that we are trying to sell our house. Our renters have moved; we had a garage sale to try to get rid of things, and we now are about set to have an open house this weekend. Other than that, we are busy with church; and I started babysitting again. It works out really well, and he's such a good little guy! So God is taking care of us, and we are looking forward to letting Him handle the house situation.

Looking forward to the Great Minnesota Get-Together, the Minnesota State Fair, which is a big excitement for us! I could do without the calories, but not the atmosphere! It always reminds me of being a kid and going with my family every year, and Dad making us stand forever at the all you can drink milk for 10 cents and really make us drink all that we could drink! I remember thinking "I don't want anymore", and him saying "KEEP DRINKING!" Having 4 kids at the fair made him economical, I guess. We went on Labor Day every year and went early and stayed late. Another economical part - get your money's worth, right? It is a nostalgic place for me. So two weeks from Friday, that's where we'll be; and maybe we will run into some of you!

I guess I had a little more to say than I thought. Since Jack gets most of the attention on this blog - what's that all about? - I thought I would throw my two cents in about other things going on with us. He will get more attention on here soon since we caught him in my makeup the other day! Matt's scared! But that's for another time. Hope you are all doing well. I have had a few people tell me that they would keep in touch with me better if I were on Facebook which I thought was funny. Maybe it would make me more interesting! HA - but we are just still old-fashioned and just blogging! It took us long enough to start this, so I don't think we'll be doing anything else for a while! But feel free to comment or email. We do check!

Funny Video

We haven't updated for a while, so I thought I would just add this funny video of Jack. He was just having a good time with the hangers on the door handle.

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More Fireworks

I thought I would include a few videos from our 4th of July bash.



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Here are the grand finales


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Reading in bed with a good book

We didn't hear anything for a while, so Matt thought he would see what Jack was up to. This is what he was doing....

He had climbed up in our bed, crawled under the comforter, and was calmly reading a tract. Good reading!

Happy 4th!

Jack did pretty good for his first real 4th. We started out the day with the Fures, but of course, I forgot my camera. Here is later in the day when Uncle Brent is introducing him to sparklers!



But we ended up inside looking out the window because the booms were too loud! Maybe next year will be a little easier. He loved the empty sparkler box though. He didn't want to let go of that. And he was very interested as long as he was safe inside!

40th & Other Happenings

We've had a busy couple of weeks. Our church celebrated it's 40th anniversary a week ago and we had a great time. There was a picnic on the grounds on Saturday evening and special services on Sunday. Along with 40 years, we were also able to pay off the mortgage on our addition this month. In the afternoon, we had a mortgage burning service. That was a blessing!





The kids had fun, too!



It has been really nice and warm here in Minnesota, so we've been able to pull out the little pool. Jack loves it!








We also had a chicken pox scare a couple of weeks ago. Jack had been exposed to someone who had chicken pox, but did not get the bumps until the following day. About a week later, he had some bumps show up. We still don't know if he had a very mild case of chicken pox or if he just had some mosquito bites. He only had about 5 bumps and never acted like he was sick. Praise the Lord!

This last weekend, we were able to go to the Minnesota Zoo with some friends of ours. We had a great time with them and their two kids. Jack had a great time, but he sure got tired!









And ever since we've gone to the zoo, Jack has enjoyed making animal sounds!


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